The Teachers at Orlando's 3-Room School

E.J. Cox, Ernestine Hyre, H.W. Auvil, Ralph Queen, Ruby Thompson, Beulah McPherson

Nathan Arnold, Freeda Mick, June Amos, Helen Hall, John Brown, , Edith Mayse

Marmel Brown, Ruth Morrison, Richard Parmer, Robert Blake, Inez (Liggett) Cosner, Mary Reynolds McNemar

Working from records, David Parmer compiled a list, below left, of the teachers at the Orlando school. Some records for the early years are missing or incomplete.1 He has also provided, above, photos of many of the teachers listed. The photos of classes, below right, are described t the bottom of the page.

For teachers at other Oil Creek watershed schools see February '07 entry Schools & Teachers in the Oil Creek Watershed


1921-1922
John J. Singleton, Prin.
Azul Queen
Blyss Skidmore

1925-1926
Dewey Demison
J. Wesley Kidd
Laura McCoy
Inez Canfield

1928-1929
Lawrence D. Wetzel, Prin.

1929-1930 E.
J. Cox, Prin.

1930-1931
Lawrence D. Wetzel, Prin.

1935-1936
H. W. Auvil, Prin.
Virginia Marshall
Ernestine Hyre

1936-1938
Ralph Queen, Prin
Ruby Thompson
Beulah McPherson

1938-1940
Nathan D. Arnold, Prin.
Ida Moyers
Freeda Mick

1940-1941
Nathan D. Arnold, Prin.
Freeda Mick
June Amos

1941-1942
Nathan D. Arnold, Prin.
June Amos
Virginia M. Singleton

1942-1943
Nathan D. Arnold, Prin.
June Amos
Helen Hall

1943-1944
Nathan D. Arnold, Prin.
June Amos
Maerea Chidester

1944-1945
John W. Brown, Prin.
Edith B. Mayse
Marmel R. Brown

1945-1946
John W. Brown, Prin.
Edith B. Mayse
Mary R. McNemar

1946-1947
John W. Brown, Prin.
Ruth P. Morrison
Marmel Brown

1947-1949
John W. Brown, Prin.
Marmel Brown
Edith B. Mayse

1949-1951
John Brown, Prin.
Marmel Brown

1951-1952
John Brown, Prin.
Ruth P. Morrison

1952-1954
Robert Blake, Prin.
Inez Leggett

1954-1955
A. W. McNemar, Prin.
Beulah Conrad

1955-1959
Richard Parmer, Prin.
Inez Cosner

1959-1961
Hazel B.Hardman, Prin.
Inez Cosner

1961-1963
Lawrence Berry, Prin
Inez Cosner

1963-19666
Inez Cosner

Above on the right photos from the 3 room Orlando school over the years
First Lee Mick's class from the 1910s. back: Opal Jeffries, teacher Lee Mick. front: Leta Skinner, Bertha Rush, Myrtle Morrison, Gertrude Rush, Marie Rush, Lovie Bee

Second 8th grade, 1940/41 front: J. C. Foster, Althea Posey, Ruth Mick, Pauline Bennett, Kathleen Sharp, Jack Riffle. back: unknown, Claude “Clutch” Riffle, Claude “Bud” Mick, Jr, Worthington Hurst, Jr.

Third: Eight grade class from 1954.

Fourth: All classes in front of the school in 1954.

1. Per David Parmer, "My grandfather E. J. Cox was Principal at Orlando in 1929-1930. The Superintendent's Report failed to include the names of the other teachers who also were at Orlando that year. I know anecdotally that he also taught at Orlando on other years but the records just don't seem to be there. My grandfather's sister, Jessie Cox, also taught at Orlando but I couldn't find a record. She was one of my father-in-law Coleman Jeffries' teachers."