Oakland Grade School, 1955/56

Grades 1-2

This photo came from Nancy Abraham Rubarts, a former first-grade member of this class:
In going through my old photos I ran across this old composite photo of my first & second grade class. The school was on Belshaw Road -- between "downtown" Belshaw and US 41. I remember two teachers -- Hilda Dahl and Ruth Weinberg. The school had three classrooms and only taught through 6th grade.

In second grade I moved to another side of Lowell, and as years passed the school was closed and remodeled into an apartment building. William Logan had purchased the property. A few years later the building burned. I vaguely I remember that Oakland School was phased out when the "new" Lake Prairie School was built on its present location.

Pictured from left to right
(Click on a number for a close-up photo.)

Top Row:1. Hilda Dahl, teacher, 2. Anthony Klahn, 3. ______, 4. Mark Lindemer, 5. _____, 6. _____, 7. _____, 8. _____, 9. Dawn Keithley

Row 2: 1. _____, 2. Lana Clark, 3. _____, 4. Danny Bradley, 5. Diana Stuhlmacher, 6. Jimmy Gates

Row 3: 1. Susan Banks, 2. _____ , 3. Nancy Abraham, 4. John Mikels, 5. _____, 6. David Echterling, 7. Candace Swett, 8. Dennis Foster, 9. Christine Wolgemuth

Row 4: 1. Daryl Bailey, 2. _____, 3. _____ , 4. Sue Sorenson, 5. Jim Cox, 6. Paul Rosenwinkel, 7. _____, 8. Dave McIntyre, 9. _____

Row 5: 1. Greg Schilling, 2. _____, 3. John Shipley, 4. Sharon Spry, 5. _____, 6. Carl Graves, 7. _____

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Identifications come from Nancy Abraham Rubarts and Mark Lindemer.