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1918
Geraldine Black
Lena Black
Goldie Freel
Ethel Hibbs
Daisy Hodson
Opal Hussenetter
Mildred McIntyre
Vera Richards

1919 (partial list)
Herman T. Gibbons

1925 (partial list)
Iris Cleveland
Honor Gibbons Hoover
Genevieve Myrick
Grace Orrill
Edna Putnam

1926 (partial list)
Charles Craig
Laura Futrell
Ruth Koon
Louise Richards

1928
Harold Art
Ellen Coon
Ivan Kerr
Helen Marmon
Tom Moore
Wilma Orrill
Carl Parsons
Clarence Richards
Beth Ridgeway
Wat Ridgeway
Jessie Robinson
Roberta Smith

1929
Robert A. Bruce
Zelma M. Cain
Raymond D. Chambers
Pervus M. Coe
Lois L. Escher
Jessie E. Miller
Keats E. Soder
Myron D. Shetterly
Herbert L. Wheeldon

1930
Norma Ruth Art
Wendell Campbell
Esther Cummings
Bernice Huffman
Louise Rawson
Howard Robinson

1933
Elizabeth Hughs
Bernice Leverich
Pauline Miller
Virginia Parsons
Kenneth Rowland
Floyd Wallace

1936
Marguerite Brennen
Kenneth Cloyd
Darlene Harmer
Leo Harmer
Helen Hunt
Clifford Isley
Russell Isley
Lloyd Miller
Elizabeth Pyle
Maxine Rawson
Alice Shaw
Georgia Shoop

1937 (only 2 known)
Ralph Hardin
Francis Miller

1940
Merlyn Boughton
Alberta Isley
Avis Jennings
Freida Nichols
Harriet Richards
Carrol Rogers
Max Shetterly
Bill Smith
Francis Wachter
Ila Wells

1948
Katheryn Cooyman
Joan Ferguson
Ronald King
Palmer Krichau
Norma Porter
Don Rogers
Agnes Wheeldon

1949
Norma Carpenter
Kathryn Garnder
Gordon Gwinn
Marianna King
Kathryn Kooyman
Iris Porter
Irene Rawson
Mary Snelson

1950
George McCann
Rodney Porter
Helene Rogers
Ruth Woodyard

1955
Robert Bruce
Mary Butterfield
Colleen Darr
Ronald Gordon
Larry Hunt
Jim Isley
Jerry King
Lyle Marsh
Lavonne Roland
Catherine Shetterly
Gene Thompson
Charlotte Wiley

1957
Richard Chambers
Larry Epps
Laverne Escher
Karen Goddard
Betty Hunt
Norman Hunt
Carroll Isley
Richard Johnston
Donald King
Minnette Marmon
Janet Meyer
Jim Nutter
Verna Lee Richards
Carol Ann Stilwell

1958
George Coon
Lois Escher
Earl Galvin
Ted Godron
Ben Halterman
Deanna Moulton
Tim Nutter
Denny Pendry
Betty Reed
Judy Smith
Sylvia Taylor

1959
Bonnibell P. Barker
Beverly Gildow
James Johnston
Peggy Jordan
Barbara Maxwell
Johan McGregory
Sandra Porter
Ruth Ring
Mary Shetterly
Gordon Smity
Larry Snyder
Carolyn Thompson
Constance Young

1960
Judy Black
Kay Byers
Gordon Campbell
Rosemary Cook
Gary Epps
Sharon Houghton
Peggy Jenkins
Kathy Maxwell
Jim Mohler
Mary Reed

1953 History of Hartford School

By Mrs. Mildred Myrick McIntyre
from the History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard Schultz and Don L. Berry, The Record and Tribune Company, Indianola, Iowa, 1953, p.166

Log House
Provisions were made for the Hartford school when the town was laid out in 1848. Exactly when the school was established is not known, but records show that first school being held in a log house and the first teacher being John Embree. The log house was made into a dwelling about 1870, at which time a new building had been built for the school.  This building was located almost in the center of the town and to the east of Main Street. The building was two stories high, white frame and had two rooms below and one large room above.  In 1908 the attendance was 67 and the average tuition was $12.56 per year for an eight month term for eight grades.

High School Courses
By 1912 and 1913 there was a movement on foot to consolidate some of the subdistricts and to build a new building and offer high school courses.  Oustanding leaders of this movement were: L. W. Gibbons, H. C. McIntyre, W. W. Gwinn, Bert Pierce, A. P. Myrick, Jim Brown, George Patterson and Otis Shetterly.  Other outstanding community leaders supported the movement.  The districts coming into the consolidation were Brown, Freel, Parsons, Mapleside and Mason.  Switzer district came in later.  The consolidated school opened in 1914 in the old two-story frame building. The two lower rooms were both used and the large room above was divided with a temporary partition to make an extra classroom.  The first year one year of high school was offered; the second, two years; the third, three years; and the fourth year the high school was expanded to a full four-year course of nine months.  From 1914 to 1918 during the building and organization of this consolidation, C. E. Shephard, Carl Millslagle and Robert Ballard were superintendents and Faye Gwinn and Avis McAdoo were principals.

New Building 1917
In 1917 a new brick building was started, being built on a five-acre tract in the north part of town.  It was well-equipped with classrooms for grades, manual training room, domestic science room and large basement gymnasium. The building was furnished and ready to be occupied in January 1918, in time for the first four-year class to attend classes in it. The following years were years of advancement for the Hartford school.  It was well organized and had a high standing in education and athletics.

Addition to Building 1951
In 1951 an addition was necessary to meet the ever-growing demands for education in the Hartford district.  A new brick building adjoining the 1917 building was erected. The average yearly tuition [in 1953] for high school pupils is $283.50 per pupil, and for grade school pupils, $162.50 per pupil.