Mount Ayr Class of 1940, 2010 Reunion

DAUGHTON, HORNE, WIMER, MAIN, REASONER, MCCREARY, GOLDNER, BRANT, REYNOLDS, DAILEY, THOMAS, THOMPSON, EDWARDS, CAMPBELL, MILLER, STILL, LILES, BIRD, HOGUE, BUTLER, LYNCH, FLETCHER, TAYLOR, JOHNSON, CROCKET

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/16/2010 at 21:36:42

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Mount Ayr Class of 1940 Reunion

September 1936, 60 freshmen (some from the one-room schoolhouse in Ringgold county and the remainder from the Mount Ayr elementary school) came together in a new school building. Entering a brand-new building with the long halls, rooms with numbers posted outside the doors was very confusing. Students were faced with lockers using padlocks with combinations to memorize. Both "country kids" and "town kids" had to master many new changes. After 70 years of educating thousands of students and sending them to all parts of the world, it was time for a new school. No doubt the students who recently moved into the new building were challenged as much as the 1936 freshmen. May they collect as many good memories as those who graduated in 1940.

Saturday, May 29, 2010, 12 members of the original 1936 freshmen met at the Senior Center in Mount Ayr for a reunion. Those in charge were Lavena WIMER, Dorothy MAIN, Lorraine REASONER and Mary McCREARY. Lyle GOLDNER welcomed the classmates. Helen BRANT provided games, old Student Ayr news items and an early eighth grade exam.

Letters were read from Margaret DAUGHTON HORNE and Mrs. William REYNOLDS.

Jake DAILEY told about his recent Freedom Flight trip to Washington, D.C. The rest of the afternoon was spent visiting and reminiscing.

Classmates attending were Helen THOMAS BRANT of Windsor, CO, Ione THOMPSON EDWARDS and Eleanor CAMPBELL MILLER of Des Moines, Lyle GOLDNER of San Antonio, TX and Jake DAILEY, Liz BUTLER LYNCH, Dorothy BIRD MAIN, Mary HOGUE McCREARY, Lorraine LILES REASONER, Burl STILL, Lavena FLETCHER WIMER and DonElla TAYLOR JOHNSON, all of Mount Ayr.

Guests attending were Vickie BRANT CROCKETT of Bainbridge Island, WA, Val BRANT of Windsor, CO, Aileen HOGUE DICKERSON of Lenox, Zoe ELLIOTT NICHOLS of Des Moines, Linda and Mike GOUGER of Omaha, NE, Sheryl GOLDNER of San Antonio, TX, and Tom TEALE and Terry WHEELER of Urbandale.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2010