Fruitland reunion set for Aug. 31

Upcoming Fruitland School Reunion-- Local Ladies Meet Monthly With Former Teacher

Local ladies meet monthly with their first grade grade teacher from Fruitland School. They are, front from left, first grade teacher Mary Beth Vogt, Ruth Tinnin; second row, left, Carolyn Thompson, Shirley Hahs, Dorothy Pfeiffer and Betty Palmer.

An annual Fruitland School reunion of former students from high school and grade school will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31 at DelMonico's Restaurant in Jackson. The buffet is dutch treat. Vogt would like to invite her schoolmates and students to come visit, enjoy and share memories of years gone by. Surviving members of her graduation class are Merl Reynolds Randol, Robert and Roberta Stevenson McDowell (twins) and Louise Pender Dunn.

Students who meet with Vogt monthly consider it an honor to listen to her stories of things she's done, places she's been and to be endearingly called "her girls."

Mary Beth (Marlin) Vogt graduated from Fruitland School in 1933. She taught at several smaller country schools and married Harry Vogt who served in WWII. At that time Vogt began teaching first and second grade in the same builiding she had graduated from a few years earlier. The high school had been suspended and its students bussed to Jackson in 1939. The surrounding country schools were consolidated and sent to Fruitland in 1940.

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An annual Fruitland School reunion of former students from high school and grade school will take place at 1 p.m. Aug. 31 at Del Monico's Restaurant in Jackson. The buffet is Dutch treat.

Mary Beth (Marlin) Vogt graduated from Fruitland School in 1933. She taught at several smaller country schools and married Harry Vogt, who served in World War II. At that time Vogt began teaching first and second grade in the same builiding she had graduated from a few years earlier.

The high school had been suspended and its students bused to Jackson in 1939. The surrounding country schools were consolidated and sent to Fruitland in 1940.

Vogt invites her schoolmates and students to come visit, enjoy and share memories of years gone by.

Surviving members of her graduating class are Merl Reynolds Randol, Robert and Roberta Stevenson McDowell and Louise Pender Dunn.

Students who meet with Vogt monthly consider it an honor to listen to her stories of things she's done and places she's been.