![]() ![]() The Grand Trunk came thru later in that decade, building a depot north of the diamond in 1880, naming it after Charles Trowbridge, a former president of one of its predecessor railroads. The Pere Marquette had arrived first, in the early 1870s. (Where 2 railroads cross is called a diamond.) There were 6 of us kids, so we needed a small hotel. The house was the former (small) hotel near where the Pere Marquette and Grand Trunk railroads crossed. I would raise my hand, the teacher would nod, and I would go and tie his shoe.Īctually we were Trowbridge. I remember looking across the room and seeing my little brother Bob with his shoe untied. ![]() It was a close knit group - the older kids helping take care of the younger. The desks were graded along with the grades, right to left, getting larger as the kids got larger. By the time you had heard the subject over 6 years, you knew it well when it came your year. Sometimes listening to what was going on in the front. Think of that – one teacher – all of those grades – all of those subjects.Ĭlasses would come to the front of the room for instructions and recitation on a subject while the rest of the school (supposedly) were studying in the rest of the room. Coming to Champion seemed overwhelming – my class was 3 times as large – Joan Hutchinson, Carlton Sellhorn and I. I wasn’t in the third grade, I was the third grade. The one-room school I had come from had beginners thru eighth grade. Seven grades - beginners (what country schools called kindergarten) through the 6th. We had a district of our own – Champion – with a one-room school at the northeast corner of Harrison and Mt. ![]() However, in the South Harrison Road area, we were of neither the Lansing or East Lansing school districts. By the time the numbers got here, they were in the 34 hundred block.īut if you asked our home town – it would have been East Lansing, a small city, a walking distance on the other side of a small campus. We had rural route numbering beginning at Michigan and Washington in downtown Lansing. If you considered our addresses at that time, you would think South Harrison was part of Lansing. The where was here – the South Harrison Road area. For me, the when was the years centered around World War II. We are much defined by the where and when of our growing up years. ![]()
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