1983
Citation: 69.354.4 (Full image size: 66Kb)
Costumed as pioneer teachers, Suzanne Kelly (a teacher at Meeker) and Polly Gossard (the wife of Thomas L. Gossard, grandson of Sarah Jane Emery Gossard, the first teacher at Hoggatt School) and Robert Glenn (dressed as a circuit rider) spoke as Hoggatt School, restored by volunteers from the Ames Heritage Association, was dedicated on the grounds of Meeker Elementary School on May 22, 1983. More than 300 people attended the dedication of the one-room school that was Ames's first.
Citation: 69.354.5 (Full image size: 68Kb)
Costumed as pioneer teachers, Suzanne Kelly (a teacher at Meeker) and Polly Gossard(the wife of Thomas L. Gossard, grandson of Sarah Emery Gossard, the first teacher at Hoggatt School) and Robert Glenn (dressed as a circuit rider) spoke as Hoggatt School, restored by volunteers from the Ames Heritage Association, was dedicated on the grounds of Meeker Elementary School on May 22, 1983. More than 300 people attended the dedication of the one-room school that was Ames's first.
Citation: 80.419.1 (Full image size: 133Kb)
Grave marker of Henry May, Ames's first school teacher, who lived from 1829 to 1919, and his wife Ellen D. May, 1833-1909. No stone had been placed on their grave in the Ames Municipal Cemetery until this stone was provided by the Ames Heritage Association in the spring of 1983.The Mays arrived in Ames in 1866. Henry taught 3 terms in the little 1861 Hoggatt schoolhouse. Washington and Grant townships shared the costs of the school while May taught there. For more biographical information on the Mays, see the article in "The Ames Intellegencer," the newsletter of the Ames Heritage Association [May, 1983; vol. 1 #3, p.2] (See also: 82.432.1-2)
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