SCHOOL NEWS
| MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA SCHOOL NEWS | |
Source: Muscatine Journal & News Tribune, Monday, 21 June 1920, page 4
Submitted by Phyllis Hazen, May 16, 2019SIX CHILDREN OF FAMILY MAKE FINE SCHOOL RECORD Rare is the present day family which can boast of six children going to the same school, but even more rare is the one which can boast of one year’s perfect attendance at school for each and every one of the six children.Probably the only family in the state which has attained this unusual distinction is the W. J. Kirkpatrick family residing in Pike township, near the Buffalo Bluff school.
William, Lowry, Annabelle, Elizabeth, Helen and Mabel Kirkpatrick are the children, and their attendance at the Buffalo Bluff school during the school year of 1919-1920, they were as regular as a cathedral clock.
Rain or shine, hot or cold, windy or calm, they juvenile sextet made their way twice a day over the mile and a quarter of country road which separated their home from the little white school house. Perhaps they stopped to play on the way home when the weather was fine, but seldom on the way to school as none of them were ever tardy.
From William, 13, to Lowry, 7, the youngest, none of them had a day of serious illness during the entire school year, so then in addition to their enviable and hitherto unachievable school record, they were probably the healthiest young family in Iowa.
There are two younger children, Ada and Harley, both under school age, and thus barring any intervention of fate, the name of Kirkpatrick on the attendance roll at Buffalo Bluff will be answered to by at least six voices for several years to come.
All of them will return to school next fall and will try to duplicate their remarkable feat, their mother with true maternal pride, said today.
62 Get Pins. Sixty-two county school children are entitles to the little heart shaped gold pins awarded for a year’s perfect attendance. About a dozen of these pins were given out at the graduation exercises Friday, and the other children may obtain them by calling at superintendent Bradley’s office at the court house.
Those entitled to pins in the various townships follow:
| Bloomington – Doral Miller. |
| Cedar – Glidden Davis. |
| Fruitland – Mildred Riegel. |
| Fulton – Walter Caweizell, Vera Otto, Charles Bockwoldt, Caroline Riessen, Elna Hering, Rudie Huettman. |
| Lake – Viola Balser, Mary Harper, M. Elizabeth Coder, Ralph Minder, Beulah Minder. |
| Moscow – Edwin Berg, Raymond Hucke, Roy Duffee, Helen Hucke, Florence Van Gent, Edward Brown, Mae Belle Stoneburner, Irene Tharp, Thomas Tharp. |
| Orono – Hilda Owen, Clarence Coffin, Gertrude Coffin, Amos Owen, Marvin Brockway, Callie Mulligan, Margie Mulligan, Lyle Brockway. |
| Pike – Albert Peters, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, William Kirkpatrick, Annabelle Kirkpatrick, Lowry Kirkpatrick, Helen Kirkpatrick, Mabel Kirkpatrick, Kenneth Yocum, Raphael Lamb. |
| Seventy-Six – Mona Barker, Morris Legler, Vivian Haber, Edna Pitchforth. |
| Wilton – Carl Ploen. |
| Wapsinonoc - Clarence J. Kruse. |
| Goshen – Mary Lucile Britton, Gladys Swain, Dale Foster, Wilson, Gensen. |
| Montpelier – Ethel Jakeman, Roy Jakeman. |
| Sweetland – Eugene Fitchner, Violet Koeppen, Julia Jackson, Lorena Ricketts, Hazel Brei, Ida Schmidt, Lillian McGillivray, Maynard Eckhardt, Wayne Eckhardt, Edna Belle Shepard. |