This week we return gain to the southwestern section of the township of New Berlin for another chapter in this long running series, which in passing in #199, for a written documentation of “The One Room School” written by Mrs. Anna Grover Camp for The Yorker Club of South New Berlin Central School in May of 1965. However before this writer quotes verbatim what Mrs. Camp wrote the photo which accompanies this article we are fortunate that the students are identified, which this writer has been advised is popular with all that read these words of educational history. These few students are identified as follows: Back Row (from left) Mildred Almsted, teacher Mrs. Ada Follett (deceased) Gladys Almsted and Esther Johnson (later to become Mrs. Bertil Olson) Front Row: Arlene Utter, Doris Almsted, Ken Utter and Viola Sickler. One cannot help but wonder if Ken Utter was somewhat “picked” on by those six females!

Now for the story!

“The small, one room school, which played such an important part in the lives of the early settlers, is fast becoming a part of our American history. As a pupil and later as a teacher in one of these small schools, I would like to give the Yorkers some of the most interesting facts as I remember them.