Bethel School No. 1, Grant Township, was located across the road from Bethel Cemetery. It was later moved a mile north and its students included children from Goshen. Later, a second school was built to replace the original schoolhouse.

BACK ROW, left to right: Floyd WALL, Alvy REYNOLDS, Ollie PUTNEY, Jack PINE, teacher Mable SHAFER, Fern WALL

MIDDLE ROW, left to right: Cecil CLOUSE, Hazel WALL, Velma WOODS, Glen REYNOLDS, Freda WALL, Kenneth MARKLEY, Orville BENTLEY

FRONT ROW, left to right: Ruth REYNOLDS, Mildred WILEY, George PUTNEY, Floyd CLOUSE, Ethel REYNOLDS, Agnes WOODS

BACK ROW, left to right: Nora SHAFER, Inez SHAFER, Kate TALLEY, Eva STAH, Stella SHAFER, Ada McFARLAND, teacher - Lottie BURNETT

3rd ROW, left to right: Lena WILEY, Maggie McFARLAND, Clyde BENTLEY, Grace SHAFER, Frank TALLEY, Mary McFARLAND, Walter STEVENS

2nd ROW, left to right: Emma McFARLAND, Alta STEVENS, Mary LaCLAIR, Lucy EVERLY, Emma CUTSHALL, Blanch BRADLEY, Minnie McFARLAND, Jessie TALLEY

FRONT ROW, left to right: Eddie STEVENS, Oliver FRUITS, Lester WILEY, Leo WING, Chester SHAFER

BACK ROW, left to right: Ruth PINE, Evelyn PINE, Raymond PINE, Barbara KELLER, Ronald PINE, Beverly PERKINS

FRONT ROW, left to right: Beverly PINE, Bob PINE, Phillip KELLER, Sue YOUNG, Donara PINE

SOURCE: Diagonal, Iowa: Centennial History p. 222. 1998.

Compilation by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2010