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From Paullina Times September 15, 1911
"Gaza is going to have a school house.
At a meeting held last Monday night enough money was raised to buy the lumber for the schoolhouse.
Mr Wall has agreed to sell an acre of ground adjoining the town for $200.
They expect to have the schoolhouse ready for the spring term."

2Children attended coin the town hall. All classes moved into the new school building the next year.

untry schools until 192, when Gaza built its consolidated school n the south end of town. During th first year he primary an inteneuate were held in a little country school on the north endof town abd gran]]mmer school was held in the church, The eighth grade and high school classes were held The last class to graduate was in 1956. This school was built in 1921 and had classes until 1961, it was used as an elementary school for a few years then sat empty until bring torn down in 1994. The students were then split between Paullina, Primghar and Sutherland.

1914 Wilbur Lake
Wilma Clark
Laura Lake
Cora Virgil
Willie Luhrs
Logan Schnoor

1917 Ida Bowersoc
Essie Karkal
Ronald Clark

1823 Alvin Bockhop
Esther Conn
Arthur Hicks
Gerald Lannholm

1924 Evelyn Tjossem
Edith Virgil
Esther Hagen
Nelson Perry
Sesylu Cleghorn
Abner Rockwell
Forest Nelson

1930 Bertina Axdahl
Mildred Carlson
Arlo Hagen
Kembel Joines
Carl Larson
Leona Lindblom
Ivan Machamer
Alice Unger

1937 Amy Peckham Fawn Cleghorn Elizabeth Elaine Betz Viola K.C. Dau Edward L. Betz Carl D. Thiesen Harry L. Young W. James Ginger http://primghar.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=gaza%20school&i=f&d=01011872-12312013&e=graduate&m=between&ord=e1,k1&fn=o_brien_county_bell_usa_iowa_primghar_19370526_english_6&df=41&dt=50 1938 http://primghar.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=gaza%20school&i=f&d=01011872-12312013&e=graduate&m=between&ord=e1,k1&fn=o_brien_county_bell_usa_iowa_primghar_19380518_english_10&df=181&dt=190 http://primghar.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=gaza%20school&i=f&d=01011872-12312013&e=graduate&m=between&ord=e1,k1&fn=o_brien_county_bell_usa_iowa_primghar_19380518_english_3&df=481&dt=4901 1938-+================================ http://primghar.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?i=f&d=01011872-12312013&e=gaza%20graduate&m=between&ord=e1&fn=o_brien_county_bell_usa_iowa_primghar_19380907_english_24&df=1&dt=1 1938 teachers http://primghar.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=gaza%20school&i=f&d=01011872-12312013&e=graduate&m=between&ord=e1,k1&fn=o_brien_county_bell_usa_iowa_primghar_19380907_english_24&df=41&dt=50 1939 Dorothy Cobb Eleanor Lake Arthur Peckham Margaret Rehder Claude Sheridan Lois Stangeland Helma Thiessen Wendell Thompson http://primghar.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=gaza%20school&i=f&d=01011872-12312013&e=graduate&m=between&ord=e1,k1&fn=o_brien_county_bell_usa_iowa_primghar_19390517_english_4&df=91&dt=100 1940 Arlene Perry Hazel I. Thompson Densel Durst Mary Helen Chalstrom Loyd H. Rohwer Elroy S.Skaar Clinton D. Schroeder Burton E. Flick Roy D. Gillsepie Eleanor K. Click Loyd W. Lund Olive Tjossem Graydon B. Martin Jack W. Ginger Dorothy Stiles Lewis I. Guetschow June A. Johnson 1941 Russell Blaine Click
Lorna Mae Guetschoe
Lyle J, Langholz
Elmer L. Stangeland
Glenn Tjossem

1947 Grads

Barbara Guetschow
Florence Lake
James Koch
Wilbur Koch
J.W. Wetler, Supt.

1949 Marian Geutschow
Dorothy Koch

1950 Marvin Hoppe
Wrex Beaman
Dorothy Ruby

1951 Patricia (Guetschow) Juber
Phyllis (Mehrens) Vander Sluis
Marilyn (Craig) Peterson
Lester Sickelka
Lavonne (Fear) Vander Sluis
Dona Jean (Johns) Hicks
Shirley (Hinz) Alfred

1951 teachers

1952 Myra Sickelka
Lawrence Marquardt
Norma Koch
Roger Crosbie
John Swanson
Arvide Magnussen

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1952 Myrna Sickelka Lawrence Marquardt Norma Koch Roger Crosbie John Swanson Arvid Magnussen

teachers 1952

1953 Joyce Kriebaum
Richard Craig
Wendell Tjossem
Delores Hinz
Alverta Weathers

1954 Rhoda Bode
Jeanette Ruby
Donald Durst
Darrell Magnussen

1955 Howard L. Craig and James Rohlfsen. high school Charles Schuerkamp eighth grade

1956 Carl Bor
Gaylon Fear
Robert Koch
Dale Krebaum
Phyllis Mathern
Marlin Mehrens
Karen Rohlfsen
John Weathers

1957 Jean Magnussen (Peterson High School)
Janice Sickelka (Primghar)
Sandra Bode *Primghar

When the Gaza district discontinued its high school last spring three seniors gradated from other schools
Peterson Joan Magnussen
Primghar Janice Sickelka and Sandra Bode

1957 8th grade 1958 John Ruby, Primghar High School
James McCarroll, Paullina High School

1958 eighth grade graduates Betty Brown,daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brown
Dennis Magnussen, son of Mr. and Mrs, Carl Magnussen
Francis hedinger, son of Mr. and Ms. Frank Hedinger.

1959 8th grade Young men who received elementary training at Gaza but graduated at other schools High School grads from Paullina Lee Kriebaum, son of Mr, and Mrs, Adolph Kriebaum
James McCarroll, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. McCaroll

Primghar John Ruby, Jr., son of Mrs. John Ruby

Browersville, MN, Larry Axdahl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sigvald Axdahl

1960 teachers 1961 eighth grade grads Janice Axdahl
Reva Hageb
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Steven Hartong
Corbin Huffman
Ronald Johannsen
Diane Mathern
Linda Mathern
Tommy Perry
Nancy Rehder
Julie Rodman
Vernon Zorgdrager



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