LUND SCHOOL, NO. 15, c. 1911

LUND VALLEY SCHOOL, c. 1936

LUND VALLEY was named for Christopher Evan "Chris" Lund, a native of Norway, who purchased a farm eight miles west of Hamilton in 1891. Lund School was classified as a high school in 1911 with nine grades. Van Wisdom, J. H. Cathey, and John Dunlop were on the Lund Valley School Board in 1924-25 when Miss Geneva Sills, Miss Myrtle Blakley, Miss Ona Frasure, and Miss Nell Doggett were employed as teachers. In 1936 the Lund Valley School was a standardized two-year high school located five miles west of Hamilton on the Pottsville-Brownwood highway. The school building was a two-story brick building with an auditorium. Mrs. Grover Cleveland (Susie Drake) McAnelly was president of the PTA, Miss Juanita McAnelly was secretary, and Mrs. Bessie Cowling was reporter. Joshua Iredell Jameson was president of the school board, G. W. Vick was secretary, and other trustees were James Edwin Crain, Charlie Loyd, Pete Simpson, Grover Cleveland McAnelly, O. E. Kirk, and Marion Johnson. Teachers were W. B. Patterson, principal; Mrs. W. B. Patterson, Miss Novella Wilson, Miss Sidney Edmiston--assistant, and Mrs. Agnes Stoffregen--teacher of expression. For 1937 the school board had employed Guy Hartgraves as principal and Miss Mary Ruth Stribling as the assistant. Ashley H. Sills taught in the Lund Valley School befoe it was consolidated with Center Valley.