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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.