District 37 School: Greeley Co. NEGenWeb

District 37 pupils and Jesse Lowe Fox (teacher) about 1896-97.
William J. Gillespie (third person from the right, in behind the second person to the right of the tear),
grandfather of Shirley R. Gillespie Moore.

1947: Jim
McNelis, Charles Lantz, Harold Rother, David Gillespie, Glen Rother
1947 (L to R) Jim McNelis, Charles Lantz, Harold Rother, David Gillespie, Glen Rother

Shirley Gillespie Moore wrote, "Three generations of Gillespie children attended school at District 37. My grandfather, William James Gillespie, was taught by Jessie Lowe Fox. All five of his children attended school there, and six of his grandchildren.
       My father, Lee William Gillespie, started school, he thought in 1924, with Katie Burns for his teacher, followed through the years to 1932, by Mr. Albert Anderson, Madge Acker, and Miss Florence Gibbons. Daddy recalls that Mr. Anderson could walk all over the school yard on his hands.   Katie Burns used the underside of her desk for those children who needed disciplined during the school day. Daddy said, "I was under that old desk quite a few times." Another teacher was a bit more corporal. He was to get his hand switched with the pointer, and he pulled it away before Miss Gibbons could hit it. "She didn't miss the second time."
       WJ's grandchildren who attended school at Dist. 37 were the three eldest children of Lee and Elizabeth Crumrine Gillespie, and the three eldest children of Eddie and Viola Gillespie McNelis. These six children had the additional privilege of being taught for a short time by their grandfather's teacher, as Jessie Fox had come out of retirement for a short time in the 1940s [WW II]. Several Lowe children also attended this school.
       My parent's also boarded a couple of teachers for District 37 as follows:
1946-1947   Pauline McKenzie
1947-1949   Florence Wibbels photo below dated 1949
Mother said the reason she could remember the years the teachers resided with them had to do with Florence, and a major event that took place the last year she was with them. Florence left school early one day in Nov 1948, to get a head start on a storm that was coming in. She walked in rain and sleet, and made it home before the storm became the "Blizzard of 1948."

Florence Wibbels, 1949, District 37

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