Ainsworth Schoolchildren circa 1933

This photo of grades 5 and 6 of the W.G. Haan School in Ainsworth comes to us from the DeWell Family Archives.


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Front row, left to right: Nellie Hook, Betty Mitchell, Thelma Wesley, Iline Doepping, Mary Hecmovich, Bernice Berkeley.

Middle row, left to right: Aline Frame (teacher), Melvin Homeier, Melvin Fasel, Marie Fasel, Gertrude Wesley, Marian Busselburg, Eldor DeWell, William DeWell.

Back row, left to right: Donald Ayres, Bill Leeson, unknown, unknown, unknown,* Delmer (John) Foreman, Eldon Harms, Leroy (Roy) Foreman, Dick Leeson.

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*One of the three unknown boys is Lorin Butt, but my source doesn't know which.

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There were four rooms in the school and each room held two grades, so Aline Frame taught both the fifth and sixth grades in one room. One grade would study their books while the other had recitations.

Here's a little item about Aline: after Henry Nolte's Ford had been brought back from Reynolds, Indiana, where his murderer had abandoned it, Aline bought it. She had it repainted and drove it for some years. A student of hers who sometimes drove to school¹ remembers parking next to that Ford; he knew very well what had happened to its previous owner.

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¹Yes, he was underage and unlicensed, but nobody ever bothered him … in Ross Township, that is. Hobart was another story.