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 Cook No. 7 - 1920 Front (l to r): Edward Christiansen, Clifford Rabe, Ronald Einspahr, Catherine Ahrenholtz, Eleanor Hansen, Opal Hansen, Opal Rabe. Middle Row (l to r): Vern McDonough (blurred), Edna Christiansen, Nora McDonough, Fern Hansen, Fern Ahrenholtz, Bernice Hotchkiss, Wayne Rabe. Back row: Alice McDonough, Mary Hotchkiss, Florence Ahrenholtz, Lydia Barts |
 Cook No.9 - 1914 Taught by Alice Smith (Mrs. Neil Currie). Front row (l to r): Faye Hartsell, Pearl Miller Sorensen, Alfred Gilgert, Donald Hartsell, Leslie Huston & Etta Miller Albrecht. 2nd Row (l to r): Verla Huston, Emma Gilgert, Bernice Huston, Clarence Miller & Clarence Boisen. Back (l to r): Albert Miller, Herman Boisen, Emma Boisen & Henrietta Gilgert. All of Etta Albrecht's eleven brothers and sisters completed school through the 8th grade at Cook No. 9. When the old school was sold her father bought the building and moved it to his farm.
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 Cook No. 9 - 1932-33 Back row (l to r): Wallace Carstensen, Orville McIntosh, Miriam Siebrecht, Esther Olson (teacher), Gayle Siebrecht, Sidney Carstensen, Stuart Currie. Front row: Gale Clouse, Mary Jean Currie, Roberta McIntosh, Ruth Teaquist, Marjorie Siebrecht and Nick Carstensen, Jr. |
 Children of Cook No. 7, 1936, Dorothy Carlson (Mrs. Robert Girvan), teacher. Thanks to Duane Thayer for identifying these students. Read his memories of the school. Left to right, standing: LeRoy Sorensen, Luther Zadow, Raymond Mentzer, Kenneth Sorensen, Howard Mentzer, Donald Ahrenholtz, Hubert Sorensen, ? Traver, Eugene Kreutz, Bob Thayer, Joyce Mentzer, Arthur Kreutz, Phyllis Hess, Eleanor Kreutz, Kenneth Diersen. Seated in front: Paul Dean Zadow, Duane Thayer, Donald Sorensen, Mildred Traver.
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 Children of Cook No. 7 Boys, 1936 Dorothy Carlson (Mrs. Robert Girvan), teacher. (See photo to the left for identities)
Duane Thayer, Mildred Traver, Paul Dean Zadow, Donald Sorenson (seated). Dorothy Carlson (Mrs. Robert Girvan), teacher |
 Cook No. 7 Girls, 1936 Joyce Mentzer, Eleanor Kreutz, Phyllis Hess, Mildred Traver (seated). Dorothy Carlson (Mrs. Robert Girvan), teacher
Dorothy Carlson (Mrs. Robert Girvan), teacher. Written on the back is "May, 1936, My first school" in Dorothy's handwriting. |
Cook #7
In correspondence between Duane Thayer Bonnie (Girvan) Ekse in Spring 2005, Duane had many memories about attending Cook #7 school as a child. Read them at Memories of Cook #7
Cook No. 8
Jane and Jack Hogue, of Prairie Pedlar, are looking for photos and people who attended the old country school, Cook #8, located in Section 27, Cook township, part of the original Cook Ranch. Mr. Cook deeded land to the county in 1902 to have a schoolhouse built for the children of his tenants. Jane and Jack have restored the school house and use it for garden seminars and craft workshops in the summer. Jane has done considerable research trying to find out more about the school and the students that attended it and has found little information. If you were a student, know people that attended the school or have photos of the school or classes from the school, please contact the Hogues at [email protected].
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