Not in the summertime, but I went to school. At first I went to a one-room school and walked from home up to the prairie which is where they had a one-room school.

No, it was just a little place where they had the school. We’d call it that. It’s still standing. People live in it. They made it into a house, but they still have it. It’s right on 30.

I went through eight grades.

I remember walking to school and it was cold. I started to school when I was five and I wasn’t old enough. I was supposed to be six but they let me go because I was learning so much. I wanted to go with my sisters to school and they let me. I learned from just hearing them. And we got cold, very cold. And Mr. Criter was our teacher and he would take snow and make us put our hand in the snow until they quit hurting and we had cold feet cause we wore boots and we had to wear suits.

And we had fun at recess. We’d go up to the top of the school and slide down the banister. That was our recreation.

We had spelling bees at noon and instead of going outside – we was cold – we had spelling bees and math questions. It was educational. We enjoyed that. But the summertime we went out and we played ball. We played Annie Over, and we played that standing on the boy’s restroom and the girl’s restroom. They had built up rows of where they could get up and look over the top and we stood on that and we threw back and forth.

When we played Annie Over, and I was always flag. I was chosen to play with the boys a lot.

Then when I got a little older I went to Cairo School. They had a school there. My school. Eight grades. We went from being – they took us from the prairie to the – and I went when I was in the second grade they took me to Caro. We had a bus, they had a bus how to truck us to Lima Central. We could either go to Lima South or Lima Central, but Lima Central was harder.

I went there until I graduated from school. We would either buy our lunch or we’d take it. At noon a lot of us girls would go down to the Kewpee to eat. It started there, now its Wolfson’s here in Findlay. It was good. We had a sandwich and we had soup, malts, and we would eat lunch there. A lot of times we’d take our lunch and we’d still go down and eat at the Y. I went there until I graduated. In 1943.