ATHENA PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION INDEX: SCHOOL RECORDS
[compiled 4/9/2005]
The collection includes material from various districts in and around Athena, Oregon, such as school registries and attendance records; teacher manuals, contracts, and records; memorabilia; miscellaneous photos; yearbooks/annuals.
District 52, Umatilla County (known as the Union School District?):
School Registers (include class lists, attendance records, teacher names with experience
and evaluation comments, school visitor records)
- 1884-1885 (teacher O. Gland?; includes letter re: condition of school house and
a handwritten notice of district meeting by CH Whiteman, Clerk)
- 1888-1890
- 1894-1898 (teachers: Fannie Scott, NE Bradlay. Kantippe Reeves, Minnie Freer, CH Marsh,
WA Saunders, Marville L. Watts)
- 1899-1900 (teacher B.B. Richards)
- 1900-1901 (teacher Lilian Dobson)
District Clerk School Record Book (includes teacher contract forms, finances, meeting records, school census of district’s children’s population with ages, parent names)
- 1888-1891
- 1894-1897 (McIntyre children are in the school census, including Archie who was …..)
- 1900-1901
- 1901
District 63, Umatilla County (known as the Sand Hollow School District)
School Registers
District 2, Umatilla County (known as Pinkerton School, Athena)
- District Clerk School Record Book
1931-38
- [also District 2 (?)] Bound Record Book (presented to library by Dean Pinkerton)
of 1924-1933 (meeting minutes and finances)
District #11, Umatilla County – Adams School
- School Census, 1910-1916 (children with parent names) (transcribed by Vynette Sage,
source: www.mycochise.com) (photocopy)
District #88, Umatilla County
- 1988 (photocopy; includes minutes, School Census of children with parent names; also
construction/seeding/planting notes for schoolhouse)
Other materials at the library include:
- Listing, School Districts of Umatilla County, Oregon (by number, name, location) (date?)
- Gerking Flat (“Gerwalty”) School (notes by Dee Nylene Taylor Graham) (memories to turn of century approx.)
- Union District 52, Umatilla County (notes by Charlotte Gross Cannon, with teacher lists from ___ - ____)
- One- and Two-Room School Houses:
Interviews of yesteryear pupils: Valerie Prosser, Charlotte Gross Cannon, Marville F. Sheard, Kathleen
McDowell Schick (collected/transcribed by __________)
- Eastern Oregon State Normal School, Weston, OR
1896 Commencement Program (photocopy)
- Scrapbook, Athena High School Reunion, classes 1910-1949
Reunion held in 1977; includes letters, biographical updates, thank yous, addresses, etc.
- Reunion booklet, Weston-McEwan, classes of 1963-64-65
Reunion held 2004; includes bioscketch notes, addresses, and two CDs (pictures, address lists)
- Photographs, miscellaneous
Class of 1916-1917 with Lois Johnson Roduner and Mamie Sheard identified
Other photos with unknown dates/identities.
McEwen Reunion photos of 1977, all persons identified: (1) classes of 1916-1934 (2) classes of 1935-1949
HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS/ANNUALS
“Athenian”
1923 (3 copies), 1926, 1927 (3 copies), 1929, 1931, 1942
(Note: In the 1927 volume are clipped 2 sports team photos dated 1925)
“Bagpipes”
1951 (3 copies), 1955, 1957, 1958 (2 copies), 1959 (3 copies),
1960, 1961 (2), 1962 (2), 1963 (2), 1964(2), 1965 (3), 1966 (2), 1967 (2), 1968 (2), 1969 (2),
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
“Paws and Claws”
1967, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
COLLEGE ANNUALS
“Timberwolf” (Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR) -- 1970
CONTACT INFO:
Athena Public Library, phone or FAX 541-566-2470
LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION INDEXING IS A PROJECT OF
Athena Library Friends Association, PO Box 576, Athena, OR 97813
email: athena_alfa
yahoo.com