Learning to tie my shoe with a wooden shoe along with my address and phone number in kindergarten to going down those "creepy" stairs to go to lunch to going back and making it through those awkward years of 7th and 8th grades. By the mid-twenties, a land boom brought in many new residents.
In the early twenties, Melbourne was a two stoplight small town. In May of 1921, 13 students made up the first graduating class of Henegar High School. (a) The commissioners court of a county shall provide for the protection, preservation, and disposition of lands granted to the county for. Again, the memories stirred up from this is fun. The Best 10 Abandoned Schools In Florida Old Melbourne High School In 1919 the Henegar HighSchool building was constructed. I vaguely remember the junior high kids coming to Traer when I was in high school, so mid eighties is a good guess as to when it shut down. I cannot say for sure when the school was closed either. One of my classmate's dad used to own the school and used the gymnasium as a place to store his prized tractors. I was fortunate to be able to win the bid at an auction and own the scoreboard that was in the gym. I would have loved to have seen pictures of the rooms and library upstairs and the gym. The door on the left was the entrance to the band room. This door led to the art/industrial arts room. The right door had a painting of Garfield the cat, which our art teacher painted. The long steel building with the 2 yellowish doors was an addition built on. I went back for my junior high years, 7th and 8th grades. I then finished my elementary years in Traer when the schools consolidated. I went to kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades there. This has brought back MANY memories of being in the Clutier school. The Iowa Hall of Pride in Des Moines has dedicated part of its "Six-Girl Basketball in Iowa" display to the 1942 team, including a team photo, the championship trophy, a team uniform, and the white basketball that was used during their time. In 2007, the mayor of Clutier proclaimed September 15 as Chargin’ Czech Day and a monument was built in their honor at the town entrance. Photo from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1942 of the Clutier girls’ basketball state championship team Clutier's Betty Mundt was the state tournament’s top scorer that year, with 75 points in four games. They were undefeated, winning 31 games and the Iowa Title.
From 1939 to 1948, they achieved a 201-18-1 record and took part in the state tournament six times.ġ942 was an exceptional year for the Chargin' Czechs. Kelley Blue Book Top 10 Used Back-to-School Car. It was remarkably difficult to find much information on the history of the school, probably because of the large number of small-town schools in Iowa that closed due to consolidation.Īfter a lot of digging, I managed to find out that Clutier Public School had a very talented young women's basketball team called The Chargin' Czechs. Search results for 'abandoned schools' for sale in Plano, Texas View pictures.
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