Oregon’s 2012 Most Endangered Places
NOMINATION FORM
Each year, historic properties across Oregon are rehabilitated and reused, enriching the lives of residents,
revitalizing the economics of Main Streets, and attracting visitors. Unfortunately, there are also scores of
historic properties in imminent danger of being lost to hard times, development pressures, demolition, or
neglect. These unique places tell the story of their community’s heritage, values, industry, and culture.
The Historic Preservation League of Oregon wants to help preserve and pass forward these irreplaceable
assets by focusing public attention and resources on them. Properties selected for the 2012 Most Endangered
Places list will receive HPLO technical assistance to address immediate threats, provide educational resources
to the local community, and develop strategies for their long term viability and preservation.
PART I: PLACE DETAILS
Name of place: Lorane Elementary School
Alternative names (if any):
Address of place: 80304 Old Lorane Road - PO Box 122 - Lorane, OR 97451
Significant dates (when it was built, etc.):
Built in 1928; attached gym removed/addition (date); separate gym added (date); stand-alone classrooms added (1958)
Type of historic place (house, farm, bridge, etc.): School
Historic designation (check any that apply):
 Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
 Contributing to a historic district
 Determined eligible for National Register
 Designated local landmark
Community Hub
 Other (specify): __________________
PART II: APPLICANT DETAILS
CAL Visioning Committee member
Applicant name: Lisa Livelybrooks
Title or affiliation (if any):
Mailing address: Crow High School, 25683 Crow Road, Eugene, OR 97402
Email address: [email protected]
Phone number: 541-935-9502
Website (if any): http://www.cal.k12.or.us/
Relationship to and/or interest in this property:
Committee looking at long-term future of Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District
PART III: PROPERTY DETAILS
Property Owner Type (select one):
 Individual
 Corporation
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Government
 Other (specify):
Owner Name: Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District #66
Title (if applicable): Dean Livelybrooks, board chair
Mailing address: 85955 Territorial Road, Eugene, OR 97402
Email address: [email protected]
Phone number: 541-346-5855
Owner’s Website (if applicable): www.cal.k12.or.us
Is the owner aware of this nomination? yes
Does the owner support this nomination? yes
Preserve, Reuse, and Pass Forward Oregon’s Historic Resources to Ensure Livable, Sustainable Communities
Oregon’s Most Endangered Places – 2012 Nomination – pg. 2
PART IV: NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION
Please address the following questions in no more than three pages of descriptive written detail:
1.
Describe the historical significance of the place. What makes it important to you, the community, and the state?
2.
What is the current use and condition of the place?
3.
What are the current and long-term threats to the place?
4.
What efforts have been taken to preserve the place in the past? What’s being done to save it today?
5.
Is there local support for saving the place? Who, specifically, could the HPLO count on for local support if the
place is listed as one of the Most Endangered Places? Conceptually, what role would the HPLO play in 2012-2013?
Are there any known resources and/or mechanisms available to save and protect the place? Who—if anyone—
might oppose preserving the place?
6.
What is likely to happen to the place if it is not listed as Most Endangered? What is the intent of the property
owner regarding the preservation of the place?
7.
What would a successful “save” look like to your community?
8.
Is there anything else that the HPLO should know when considering this place for the 2012 list?
PART V: SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Attach at least three photographs of the place in its current condition. High resolution digital color images are
preferred. Submission of additional documentation (articles, historical records, historic images, documentation) is
encouraged to assist the review committee in adequately evaluating the place. Note: materials will be kept on file and
will not be returned to the applicant. The HPLO reserves the right to use submitted photographs unless otherwise
indicated by the applicant.
PART VI: SUBMISSION
Mail or email (strongly preferred) one copy of your completed nomination (Part I-V) to:
Historic Preservation League of Oregon
24 NW First Avenue, Suite 274
Portland, OR 97209
OR
[email protected]
Criteria for selection include historic significance, degree of endangerment, local support, and long-term viability.
Please submit a separate form for each nominated property. All materials must be received by Monday, March 26,
2012, to be considered for listing. Applicants will be notified once their materials have been received and processed.
Oregon’s 2012 Most Endangered Places list will be announced at noon on May 22nd at the University Club of Portland.
If you have any questions, please contact Brandon Spencer-Hartle at [email protected] or by
phone at 503 243-1923.
HPLO | 24 NW First Avenue, Suite 274 | Portland, OR 97209 | 503 243-1923 | HistoricPreservationLeague.org
PART IV: NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION
1. Describe the historical significance of the place. What makes it important to you, the community, and the state?
History
Although the Lorane Elementary School building is the youngest of the four historical buildings in the
community of Lorane by 20 years, it is the most-loved and has been used by more people in the community than
all of the others, combined.
When it was built in the early-1920s, it joined several scattered and outlying, one-room schools within an
approximate 10-mile radius into one large community school. The school was built in the shape of a “U” with four
classrooms, a library, a health room and two restrooms surrounding an open play shed on three sides. The play
shed, at first, had a dirt floor and the back wall was wire screening. This play shed encompassed the area that was
later to become the library, auditorium and storeroom. In the beginning, the library was located in the present
office.
For a short period in 1937 and 1938, soup was fixed at the Frank Davis house and was carried to the grade
school each noon hour for lunch for the students. Lunch was eaten in the library and each student brought his
own bowl and spoon from home. As the students finished and filed out of the room, they were each allowed to
take grapefruit or dried apricots from a large metal washtub set near the door to be eaten for dessert. Later, a
cafeteria, gymnasium and an addition for more classrooms were added.
What Makes It Important to Me (Pat Edwards)
Lorane is where my heart lives and Lorane Elementary School is where our children were raised and where
they and four of our grandchildren went to grade school. I’ve delved into its history, participated in its transition
from a mill and logging town to an Oregon wine “hot-spot” and made long lasting and “forever” friendships here. I
love the people and the “rural-ness” and the tradition of home and family that it provides me. Because of this, I feel
the pain that we are feeling as a community, too. I’ve spent many hours at Lorane Elementary, going to teacher
conferences, school picnics, PTC meetings, 4-H meetings, community school meetings, basketball games, 6th grade
graduations, Christmas programs, birthday parties, carnivals and class presentations. I’ve stood over my daughter
as she and her girlfriend, with scrub bucket in hand, washed off the naughty words they had written in chalk on the
side of the building. I stood by while our son apologized to his teachers for accidentally breaking a window at the
school. I cheered on all of the kids’ efforts in their first basketball and softball games and track meets. I’ve pushed
the merry-go-round for my kids and rode the wooden teeter-totters. I’ve watch as my little monkeys climbed the
bars and hung by their knees. I’ve swung in the swings, too... in fact, the last time I did it was only a few years ago
while waiting for my granddaughter on Grandparent Visitation Day. It gave me a wonderful feeling of soaring with
the eagles once again as I pumped my 68-year-old legs to make it go as high as I could, although, I admit, I didn’t
quite feel up to baling out as I once did.
Importance to the Community
Many of the events and activities mentioned in the section above involved the community as a whole. I don’t
remember a time when a school program was put on, whether it was a carnival, a Christmas program or a Spring
Fling when the gymnasium was not filled to standing-room-only. These were not attended by just children, their
parents or even grandparents. Community members of all ages packed the bleachers whether they personally
knew any of the children or not. These events were important ways of socializing, connecting with neighbors and
friends and meeting the new people who had moved into the area. Laughter and applause were always part of the
program.
The school was also made available to the community for other activities and events such as memorial services
for long-time residents in which a large turnout was expected. The whole school and school grounds served as the
main venue for the 1987 three-day Lorane Centennial Celebration that brought people and alumni from all over
the U.S.
In addition, the gymnasium, has historically been made available to community members for basketball
scrimmages and “shoot-arounds” and the baseball fields have hosted a lot of Little League games and family softball
games. The playgrounds are used during the summer and weekends to get the kids outdoors and into the sunshine.
During the 1980's, 4-H was prominent in the community. Meetings were frequently held at the Lorane
Elementary School and as Lorane 4-H Coordinator, Pat Edwards enrolled the community in the 4-H Community
School program, using the school building as a base for adult education classes and workshops including
woodworking, leather-crafting, furniture re-upholstery, dog obedience and small engine repair, to name a few.
These classes were taught by experienced community members for others in the community who where
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interested in learning new skills.
State Significance
Historically, the Lorane Elementary School has little impact on the state other than its long history of excellence
in education. Alumni have gone on to middle and high school, a large percentage graduating with the tools needed
to continue on to college. Many have excelled in their chosen careers and are very proud of their small-town
heritage.
2. What is the current use and condition of the place?
Current Use
The school has been vacant since summer, 2011. The 1958 building rooms are being used by the community—
one room as the food pantry for those in need, the other by the Rural Art Center, a non-profit that provides
arts/music residencies and programs to the CAL district patrons.
Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District # 66 (CAL) applied to the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to
keep the school “open” but empty during 2011-12 allowing it the possibility of being reopened again as a school
for the 2012-13 school year and remain eligible to receive rural remote funding. This was granted to allow CAL to
evaluate the need to use the school for its elementary program. They moved all the students to the other
elementary school 13 miles away in Crow. They formed a CAL Visioning committee, aided by a grant from the
Ford Family Foundation, to research and recommend a 10-year future plan for the district to the board for
decision-making. In the meantime (July 2011), state law changed the funding model for rural remote schools
making reopening Lorane Elementary more feasible as an elementary school and potentially financially beneficial to
the district as a whole. However, funding for rehabilitating the building is non-existent and the tax base in our tiny
district is small, especially since the most recent economic downturn.
Current Condition
The current condition of the place is poor and will only get worse if left uninhabited. The two buildings of
most significance (the gym and the main 1920s building) are unused. (The gym is being used by a Boy Scout troupe
a few times/month.) The gym has a lovely maple floor and clear fir bleachers, but one corner of the building and
the bathrooms are in very poor repair (due to a drainage issue). The main 1920s building has four lovely
classrooms but a boiler dating from 1930 that uses $20,000 in fuel per year. ADA compliance is non-existent. It
needs seismic retrofitting, weatherization, window upgrades. The classroom/library addition that replaced the
original open playshed is on a foundation six-feet lower than the original front section of the building. The large
difference in elevation makes the entire back half of the building problematic for accessibility. The two small
bathrooms have no accessible stalls. A cafeteria/kitchen was added to the school as a community-build in the late
30s with parents/community digging out a basement area to place the small cafeteria/kitchen under the SE corner
of the building. Before the whole school funding changed many years ago and our local taxes paid for our schools,
we had a wonderful preventive maintenance policy set up for all buildings, buses and property. Once the state took
it over, our maintenance schedule fell to the wayside and everything went downhill.
3. What are the current and long-term threats to the place?
Current threats
The current threat to the building is that it is empty and may remain empty for an additional year before its use
as a school is determined. It will no longer be used as a school building unless rehabilitation funds can be found,
even though the district may wish to continue serving the district with a Lorane Elementary school under the new
rural remote funding model. The CAL district is in process of asking for an “open yet empty” extension for an
additional year from the ODE.
Long-term Threats
Secondly, if the CAL district school board determines that the district is best served by a single elementary
school in Crow, the future of the building is in question. Would it be given to the Lorane community? sold to a
developer? simply slump into the ground while its fate is decided?
If the CAL board saw fit to give the property to the Lorane community, the future of the building would still be
in question. Lorane has a fire district, a school district but no library district or parks and recreation district to
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raise tax funding to upgrade the building. Even if the Lorane community were able to tax themselves, the tax base
of the sparsely populated, low income Lorane area would not raise enough to rehabilitate the building.
4. What efforts have been taken to preserve the place in the past? What’s being done to save it today?
Past and Present Preservation Efforts
As with many rural school districts, precious little maintenance has been done on any of CAL’s buildings, due to
the pressure of decreasing school funding and the shifting of scarce dollars to pay for programs rather than
infrastructure. The maintenance model has been a reactive finger-in-the-dike model for 20 years.
In 2008 and 2010, surveys were done of the building to assess maintenance needs but no action has been taken
to date. A group of Lorane community members are eager to facilitate/aide rehabilitation efforts.
5. Is there local support for saving the place? Who, specifically, could the HPLO count on for local support if the
place is listed as one of the Most Endangered Places? Conceptually, what role would the HPLO play in 2012-2013?
Are there any known resources and/or mechanisms available to save and protect the place? Who—if anyone—
might oppose preserving the place?
Local Support for Saving Lorane Elementary School
The Lorane community is eager to have its local school or at least have the building used by the community:
The Lorane Parent-Teacher Organization
Pam Kersgaard, president
The Lorane School group
The Crow-Applegate-School District BOD Dean Livelybrooks, board chair [email protected]
CAL Visioning Committee Lorane Subcommittee
Potential Resources:
Lane Electric Coop Commercial retrofit matching grant ($2500/ year)
Seismic Retrofit Grants –2013-14
Kiri Carini, Seismic Grants Program, [email protected]
CAL Bond measure (in discussion)
Dean Livelybrooks, board chair
[email protected]
Ford Family Foundation Public Convening Spaces grant (matching) http://www.tfff.org/Grants/PublicConveningSpaces/tabid/194/Default.aspx
Meyer Memorial Foundation Responsive Grant
http://www.mmt.org/program/responsive-grants
Oregon Cool Schools Program http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/SCHOOLS/COOL_SCHOOLS/
Possible HPLO Role
HPLO could support with research and education, connecting us with what has been done in other places,
connecting us with grant sources, facilitating rehabilitation efforts.
Potential Opposition
Potential opposition might come from CAL district patrons who feel that students are better served by a single
larger elementary, or those who prefer the district to maintain fewer sites.
http://www.laneelectric.com/conservation-renewables/weatherization-programs/
6. What is likely to happen to the place if it is not listed as Most Endangered? What is the intent of the property
owner regarding the preservation of the place?
Likely Future and Intent of CAL School Board
The future of Lorane Elementary School as a school and as a community building is uncertain and without
concerted effort and energy may well slump into the ground before it can be saved. The intent of the CAL school
board is uncertain, in the process of discernment at present. It may choose to re-inhabit the building as a school
during 2012-13, postpone the decision until 2013-14, or decide to close it as a school and work on the decision of
what to do with the property at that point.
7. What would a successful “save” look like to your community?
A Successful “Save”
A best-case save for the Lorane/CAL community would be a rehabilitated 1920s building and gymnasium to be
used as a CAL district small rural remote elementary school. The school would be updated to ADA standards,
weatherized and made to function as a modern school and community hub.
The community would also consider it a save to have the building rehabilitated to serve as a community center.
8. Is there anything else that the HPLO should know when considering this place for the 2012 list?
No.
PART V: SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Photographs
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School Bus and Drivers, 1957
Lorane School Bus, (circa 1930)
Lorane Elementary School, (pre-1948)
Lorane Elementary School, 2008
Lorane Elementary School, 2010
Lorane Elementary School Cafeteria Walkway, 2009
Lorane Elementary School Entry, 2009
Lorane Elementary School Garden, 2009
Lorane Elementary School Gymnasium Exterior, 2009
Lorane Elementary School Gymnasium Interior, 2009
Historical Records
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1987 Lorane Centennial Celebration Agenda
Burton Kelly Lorane Elementary School Diploma, 1933
From Sawdust & Cider to Wine, A History of Lorane, Oregon and the Siuslaw Valley, Chapter V: School
System. Section detailing current Lorane Elementary School on pages 114-117. Included by permission of
author Pat Edwards.
Newpaper Articles
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1971 Article in West Lane News, Veneta
1987 Article in Cottage Grove Sentinel, Cottage Grove
1987 Article in Eugene Register Guard
2011 (February) Article in Fern Ridge Review: Sweet Lorane News: Public Forum Regarding Lorane
Elementary School Closure
2011 (June) Article in Fern Ridge Review: The Last(?) Spring Fling
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V. SCHOOL SYSTEM
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former Lorane school teacher, Mrs. Jane
Powell, wrote a letter to young Donald
Drullinger in the 1950s about the pre-1900
Oregon school system.
“The country schools were ungraded, and there
wasn’t a high school in the county. The University gave
a preparatory course to fill the gap between the common
school and the University of Oregon. The county
districts provided for only one teacher for all the subjects
taught and the many (or few) pupils attending. If my
memory serves me correctly, a Lorane teacher told me
that she had seventy pupils enrolled. I’ll leave your
imagination to picture the work involved. It never could
have accomplished anything but CHAOS, spelled in
capital letters, had it not been for much of the same
spirit of friendly cooperation for the common good
and vying with each other to accomplish it, that exists
in the making of real baseball and football teams or
any kind of teamwork. Monthly tests were given and
graded on a scale of seventy, eighty, and ninety to one
hundred per cent. Justice prompts me to add that
according to the ability given them by nature they need
not offer apologies to anyone. Time and again, I’ve seen
the dogged pioneer determination to succeed ‘crop’ out
in their work.
“County superintendent Hunt had the country
schools graded before 1900, and State Superintendent
Alderman worked unceasingly for high schools to be
made available for all of Oregon’s children. Giving
unearned credits to pupils was detected and ‘squelched’
by requiring final grade tests to be sent to the county
superintendent for grading.”
CARTWRIGHT SCHOOL
The Cartwright school was established in 1854, the
first in the valley. The land on which it was built was
donated by the Cartwright family. The tiny school, made
of logs, was located near the present Mill Camp on south
Territorial Road (MD-H17). When built, the school
faced east towards the road. When the road was rerouted
in approximately 1913, the school was turned around
and moved closer to the new road. It was then
remodeled. All of the windows were moved to the north
side of the building and a well was drilled. By this time
it had large double-seated desks of graduated sizes, and
the siding on the south side of the room was painted
with blackboard paint to form a large blackboard area.
It was heated with a large jacketed wood stove.
Two privies were built along the north side, across
the wet and swampy area, and a small woodshed was
built behind the schoolhouse. In the beginning, students
and teachers were required to bring water from home.
Later, a well was drilled in front of the school. The
pitcher pump supplied water thereafter for as long as
the building was used.
Henry Clay Huston was its first schoolmaster. That
year at the Cartwright School was Huston’s first year of
teaching after his graduation from college. Clay Huston
filed for and received a donation land claim in an area
adjacent to and under what was to be Fern Ridge Lake
on the old Applegate Trail where he settled down.
Huston had a varied career. He later became a farmer,
school teacher, state legislator, and mill worker.
Later teachers, as remembered by Harry Skelton,
were Jane Perini Powell (1919-1921), Miss Atkinson
(1921-1924), Phoebe (Earls) Berry (1924-1926) and
Lucille Addison (1926-1927). It is believed that a Miss
Smith taught the last portion of the 1924 school year
when Miss Atkinson married and moved away. The
Cartwright school board for 1925-1926 consisted of
John Skelton, T.B. Mitchell and A.H. Addison. E.J.
Moore was the superintendent.
The enrollment of the 1925-1926 school year
included 19 students; 4 Mitchells, 4 Skeltons, 7 Addisons,
l Patterson, 1 Newman, 1 Smith and 1 Trefry.
The school year of 1926-1927 was Lucille Addison’s
first year of teaching after having graduated from the
Cartwright School, the Lorane High School, and having
spent one year at the Oregon Normal School in
Monmouth, Oregon. She had 17 students in six grades.
Harry Skelton was the school’s only graduate in the
spring of 1927.
Miss Addison and the children cooked a hot dish
each day during the winter to supplement their cold
lunches. Everyone took turns bringing different foods
to cook and each student had his own dish andspoon.
The food was placed on the wood stove in the morning
and by the time the noon hour rolled around their lunch
was done. This may very well have been Lorane’s first
hot lunch program.
Virginia Addison Durbin remembers the stories
about the Cartwright School that her father Blaine C.
Addison told. It had rough, unplaned boards to sit on,
and the floors were full of big knotholes. The older
boys would sit in the back of the room and spit tobacco
juice through the knotholes. Some of the students were
in their 20s because their work at home kept them from
attending school on a regular basis.
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Cartwright School. Class of 1927. Back row: Harry Skelton, Donald Addison, Harold Addison,
Kenneth Addison, Edna Mitchell, Jim Mitchell, Ed Mitchell, Marjorie Skelton, LucilleAddison, teacher.
Front row: Neal Barton, Eloise Addison, Gertrude Barton, Doris Skelton, Dorothy Addison, Laural
Newman, Charles Ray “Jake” Mitchell.
Harry and Kenneth Addison worked as janitors for
the school while they were in the 4th and 5th grades.
They were paid $20 per year to build the fire every
morning, keep the fire going during the day, raise and
lower the flag, tidy up the room, sweep the floor after
school, clean the erasers and wash the blackboard. They
were paid extra to prepare the building for school in
the fall which included washing the windows and
scrubbing and oiling the floors.
In the early days, the school was occasionally used
for church services when a traveling minister, Rev. Noah
Starr, would pass through the area.
In the summer of 1927, the school was closed and
the students were transferred to the Lorane Elementary
School.
GREEN DOOR S CHOOL DISTRICT #20
In 1867, the Green Door School, District #20, was
built several miles north of Lorane. It sat across north
Territorial Road from the Insley Seales’ place on
“Bunker Hill” property (MA-H7), and it did, indeed,
have a green door. Francis M. Nighswander was the
first teacher using a McGuffey’s fifth grade reader and
elementary speller for his textbooks at the school.
In 1900, the school board members for District
#20 included Doak Zumwalt, Scott Jackson and possibly
Jeremiah Pipes.
In the time period between 1898 and 1903, the
following Green Door students signed Insley Seales’
autograph book: 1898 - Nina Morrow, Chester Foss,
and Clarence Foss; 1900 - Margaret Geneva Foss, James
Blaine Jackson, Zarda McQueen, Matilda Horn and
teacher Ella Addison; 1901 - teacher M.M. Zumwalt;
1902 - Willie T. Moore, G.A. Pipes, Almon Moore and
teacher Flossy Lockwood; 1903 - Ivan McQueen.
In the 1907 school year, Horace and Bessie
Sutherland were eighth graders at the Green Door
School. They walked to school each day from their home
north of Gillespie Corners. On the way, they would
pick up Virgil McBee who was a first grader there. They
cut across a field and around a hill to the Jackson home
on Marlow Road where the Jackson children, Joel,
Lucina, Jose and Clarissa, joined them. They were met
at the school by their teacher, Cynthia B. Mallette, and
their other classmates, Beulah Woods, Annettie Seales,
Myrtle Mulkey and Neva Woods. That year, the school
board members included E.K. Chapman, chairman; C.
Marlow, clerk; John Doak and Scott Jackson.
In an interview of Clarissa Jackson Wholford by
her niece, Virginia Addison Durbin, Clarissa tells of
her memories of the school. “There were two different
Green Door Schools. The first building was one my
father Scott Jackson bought and moved over on his place
Green Door School
Green Door School class, approximately 1921
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on Marlow Road to be fixed up to rent for a house.”
That was about 1914. “Before he rented it, we girls
decided it would be a great chance to give a dance for
our cousins and friends. We loaded up the old pump
organ from our house into a wagon and pushed it by
hand to the little old school house. We had a wonderful
time. Later, the house was rented to the Lloyd Abbey
family.”
The second building used for the Green Door
School was a one-room building sporting a wood stove
which was used for both heat and a means to heat pots
of soup and stew for hot lunches during the cold winter
months. There was a hand water-pump, and each
morning the teacher filled a bucket with fresh water. A
long-handled dipper was used to fill paper cups that
the children were taught how to fold themselves.
Outside, there was a large playshed, which opened
to the east, and bars and swings on which the students
could play.
Some of the other teachers that Clarissa Jackson
Wholford remembers at the two Green Door schools
were a Mr. Wray, Laura Jackson Currin, Laura McMindes
Jackson, Josie Jackson Davis and Margaret Bettis. Others
were Nellie Leep, Tom Clark, Katherine Strome, Ruby
Sullivan, Lydia Rudem, Ella McCulloch, Nora Emery
and a Mr. Jordan.
Margaret Bettis was an 18-year old girl, just
graduated from Coburg High School, when she was
sent by the Lane County School Superintendent to teach
the eight grades at the Green Door School in Lorane
for the school year or 1918-1919. She signed a contract
for an 8-month term that stipulated that she teach the
three “Rs” and take care of the school’s janitorial duties.
Her salary was $67.50 per month.
Margaret boarded at the Ted Hayes’ home on
Marlow Road because it was the practice for the teacher
to board with the school board chairman’s family even
though Scott Jackson, a school board member, lived
much closer and was willing to board her.
Margaret Bettis Gardner remembers that the
children had to walk to school each day. There were
only seven pupils in attendance that year, and five of
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them belonged to one family. They included the five
Stroup children who moved away before the end of
the school year, May Leff, who walked five miles to
school, and Glen Hayes.
Enrollment increased in later years, and the school
continued to operate until its closure in 1927. Students
from the area were then bussed to the Lorane
Elementary School.
DISTRICT #37 SCHOOLS
School District #37 was located west of Lorane
and included those families who lived down the Siuslaw
River Road. In 1936, the last set of school board
members included Archie Carpenter, chairman, W. R.
Albright, Ruth Jahnke and Sally King. On May 17, 1937,
the school district was consolidated with the Lorane
School District #36, and on June 21, 1937, the new
board was instructed to sell the school site (presumably
the Letz Creek School site).
The Fawn Creek School
The Fawn Creek School was the first school
in District #37. It existed in the early 1900s, although
records are not available to confirm an exact date. It
was located on the site where the former Elliott home
sits on Siuslaw River Road at the head of the driveway
leading to the homesite once occupied by the Jahnke
family (ME-E9).
The Fawn Creek School had a lean-to shed east of
it which was used to stable the horses of the children
and teachers who found it necessary to ride or drive to
school.
The school was in operation until the Letz Creek
School was built. It was closed sometime before 1920,
because the Sam Snyder family moved into it and used
it as a home upon their arrival in Lorane in about 1921.
Later, a family by the name of Conrad lived in the
building. The school was torn down in late 1937. The
lumber from the building was sold by the Lorane School
Board in January, 1938, for $5 to Bill Henderer.
Lydia Alldridge Happy remembers her teacher at
Fawn Creek School as a Mrs. Felts. Classmates were
Fawn Creek School, ca 1908. Anna Chapman, Helen
Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert, Minnie Sharp, Anna Sharp,
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Anna Sharp, George Roemhild, Clarence Roemhild,
Aaron, Owen, Helen and Liza Gilbert and Hershel and
Denzel Bradford.
Other teachers remembered as having taught at the
school were Verona Chapman and Della Jackson.
The Letz Creek School
(Author’s note: It is interesting to note that the former
teachers of the Letz Creek School spell it“Lets” or “Letts”
Creek School. It has not been determined how the creek
was named. The official spelling is “Letz”.)
The Letz Creek School sat right next to the Albright
house at the entrance to Letz Creek Road where it
joins south Territorial Road (ME-F10). Opal L. Thorpe
was the school teacher for the 1926-1927 school year.
Mrs. Thorpe and her daughter Vivian Arlene lived in a
one-room house with an attached woodshed which sat
behind the school. A 12-year old boy, Marion Castleman,
lived with the family and helped with chores to earn his
room and board.
Vivian Thorpe Stafford recalls the year that she lived
and attended second grade at the Letz Creek School.
“A wonderful covered bridge spanned the creek, and it
was our playshed. The school board also put up a brand
new swing in that covered bridge, and I can remember
many happy hours there.”
Sitting well back from the school and teacher’s
quarters were individual outhouses – his and hers.
“Up until after I lived in Lorane, I had always been
called by my family by my middle name, Arlene.” But,
after one year of having Russell Milness calling her
“Arlene Sardine,” the name was permanently spoiled
for her. She begged her mother mercilessly to call her
by her first name of Vivian, thereafter.
Vivian told of the Thorpes’ weekend trips to town.
“The three of us would start walking down the road as
soon as school was over on a Friday afternoon. We
walked to Lorane and stay overnight with the mailman
and his wife. Then Saturday morning we rode into town
with him when he went to get the mail. On Sunday
afternoon, my Uncle Merle drove us to Lorane. From
there, we walked the seven miles back to the Letz Creek
School.
“From the ever-faithful Sears & Roebuck catalog,
Mother ordered a whole lot of Easter candies, eggs and
treats for her students. She hid them in the woods across
the road from the school, and we had a really good oldfashioned Easter egg hunt.”
Bess E. Tweedt taught school at the Letz Creek
School in 1927-1928. Her husband John taught there
in 1929. The following is a collection of their memories
about the people and the conditions surrounding the
Letz Creek School.
“I can recall nine pupils. Fred Gilbert was the only
Letz Creek School, 1925
eighth grader. Others were Edna Gilbert, Ruby King,
Robert King, Russell Milness, Walter Milness, Marjorie
Jenner, Margaret Koch and Hershel Bradford.
“Recesses and lunch hours ended with the sound
of a hand-held bell.
“We had a real blackboard. The teacher wrote the
lessons on boards painted black. Cracks where the
boards were put together made it easy for the teacher
to keep a straight line.
“The building was heated with a large sheet-iron
stove placed in one corner of the room. During the
fall, a little fire in the morning made the room
comfortable. In the winter, we cooked stew or warmed
soup on the stove’s flat top. It smelled so good as we
did our lessons. The stew had to be stirred once in awhile
or it would scorch. Hot water for washing soup bowls
was another bonus.
“After the rains started in the fall, the salmon run
started. One lunch hour, Robert King caught hold of a
large salmon. He made so much noise we all came to
see what had happened. He was able to hold on until
some of the others came to help. The fish was almost
as long as Robert was tall.
“We had running water. We ran down the hill to
Letz Creek, dipped up a bucket of water, and ran back
to the school. There was a shelf in the cloak room for
the water pail and a shelf for the soup bowls and
drinking cups.
“A new regulation by the county required that all
rural schools send a sample of their drinking water to
be tested. This was done and it was recommended that
a well or other source of water be found. They tried to
put down a well, but that was not successful. So, the
board decided to pipe water from a clear, cold spring
on the hill across the road from the school. The water
was piped to a sink built on the front porch of the
school.
“There was always a Christmas program, and a
picnic at the end of the school year.
“Tragedy struck one morning when Ruby King,
who was our student janitor, was splitting wood. The
stick she was cutting slipped and threw her hand under
the blade of the ax. She cut her hand near the thumb to
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the bone. My husband John was teaching at that time.
He stopped the bleeding and pulled the cut together
after disinfecting it. We had gauze and other first aid
equipment for bandaging. Every morning the bandage
was changed and the cut looked after. It healed leaving
only a white line. Needless to say, Ruby didn’t cut
anymore wood that year.”
John took over the teaching tasks following the birth
of their baby in 1929. The school board built a real
teacherage that summer which even sported a sink and
running water in the kitchen. They moved the woodshed
to another part of the playground and added another
room.
Tom Clark, a popular teacher at other schools in
the Lorane area including the Lone Cedar, Green Door
and Lorane Elementary Schools, was the teacher at the
Letz Creek School in about 1931 or 1932. For several
years, the classes at the Letz Creek School were made
up entirely of boys. Evidently, there was a shortage of
girls downriver. One class was made up of Roger
Roemhild, Walter Cowen, Lee Alldridge, Don Alldridge
and Robert King.
That particular winter, enough snow fell to leave a
thick white carpet on the ground. The class went out at
recess time and took turns sliding down the hill next to
the school on a broad scoop shovel. Mr. Clark was not
one to miss out on the fun. The problem was, as he was
sailing down the hill, his trousers caught on a stick
protruding from the ground, tearing them. The
afternoon classes were conducted with Mr. Clark giving
out history lessons while sitting at his desk in his
undershorts sewing up the tear in his pants.
Lee Alldridge remembers when the boys in his class
would throw their fishing lines in the water behind the
school each morning and check on them each recess, at
the noon hour and after school. When fish were found
on their hooks, they removed them and place them in
the school sink on the front porch so that they remained
fresh until the end of the day. Many days the boys would
take home large catches of the fish.
The student enrollment in 1936 included Cleona,
Juanita and Emile Alldridge, Fern and Lloyd Albright,
Helen Jahnke and Harriet and David Kempston.
Helen Jahnke Walters attended the school the last
year it was in operation. “I was 5 years old at the time.
They told me I was hanging around there all the time
anyway, might as well be in school. I think the actual
reason was they needed another body to keep the school
open! The girls in the class were Fern Albright (my
favorite Big Girl) Harriet Kempston, Juanita Alldridge
and Cleona Alldridge. Cleona and I were the first graders.
The next year we were bussed to Lorane Grade School.”
The Albright family’s regular home was on Doe
Creek, but while they were attending school, the family
spent the school months at a home situated next to the
school, believed to be the teacherage.
Before the Letz Creek School consolidated with
the Lorane School in 1937, Janet Brown was the teacher
of 8-10 children. She converted the old school into her
home following its closure.
On Sundays, the school also served as the local
church. Joseph Kempston was its minister.
LONE CEDAR SCHOOL DISTRICT #184
School District #184 was formed in 1916, because
it was difficult for the children living near Gillespie
Corners to attend either Green Door School to the
south or Hadleyville School to the west. They were a
considerable distance from each, and no school buses
were in operation at the time.
The Lone Cedar School was located across
Territorial Road from the forks of Simonsen Road near
Gillespie Corners (MA-C3). The land was donated for
the school by Jesse Hooker and Marcellus Gillespie, and
the school house was built in 1918. Classes were held in
a one-room woodshed on the property for a couple of
years before that, however.
The school was named for a large, beautifully
shaped cedar tree which still stands today between the
forks of Simonsen Road. It no longer is beautifully
shaped, however, thanks to the Columbus Day Storm
that hit the area in 1963.
In 1919, the enrollment at the Lone Cedar School
consisted of Arvid Rothauge, Hazel Powell, Art
Simonsen, Jessie Simonsen, Roy McCay, Emma
Rothauge, Freda Hooker, Dorothy Smith, Elmer Smith,
Reta Hooker, Everett Runk, Thelma Powell, Robert
McCay, Lee Simonsen, Orville Powell, Elmo Simonsen,
Juanita Gillespie and Charles Simonsen. The teacher
that year was Mrs. Price. Arvid Rothauge remembered
Mrs. Price as the one teacher he didn’t like. “She was a
good teacher, all right, but she was... I was a bashful kid
and it seemed like she was always picking on me!”
In 1920-1921, Thomas Clark taught the 16-student
school. Students that year included Reta Hooker, Juanita
Gillespie, Anna Rothauge, Emma Rothauge, Elmo
Letz Creek School class. Anna Chapman on far right
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Lone Cedar School, 1927
Simonsen, Robert McCay, Anna Lee McCay, Charles
Simonsen, Orville Powell, Ellen Cowan, Everett Runk,
Roy McCay, Freda Hooker, Jessie Simonsen, Hazel
Powell and Arvid Rothauge. Arvid Rothauge had a vivid
memory of Tom Clark. The Lone Cedar teaching job
was Clark’s first. When the school superintendent hired
Clark the spring before he began, the students were
warned about the teacher who wouldn’t let any of them
get away with any foolishness. Because Clark had spent
the summer in Alaska, the students were not given a
chance to meet this “superhuman” teacher until the first
day of school. Much to their surprise, Tom Clark was a
“wiry, spindly sort of chap,” shorter than many of the
older boys in school. Before any of them could get any
ideas about trying to put something over on their
teacher, however, Tom Clark drew the four biggest boys
in the school aside on the school ground and offered
them a challenge. He lay down on the ground and told
the boys to try to figure a way to keep him from getting
to his feet. “We thought we’d have some fun with the
teacher,” said Arvid, “so we all got squared away – one
on each leg and arm. We had him sewed down just to a
fare-thee-well, you know. We weren’t supposed to hurt
him, though.” When the boys told him that they were
ready, he literally burst up from the ground, tumbling
boys all around him. “He never had any trouble with us
after that, and everyone liked him from the start.”
In 1985, Tom Clark’s widow, Pearl Clark, related a
humorous incident. “When the old Lorane High School
building was dedicated, Lone Cedar School teacher,
Clara Courter (later Flowers) recited the poem “Young
Lochinvar” while several of her pupils acted it out. The
girl who played the part of Lochinvar’s sweetheart rode
side-saddle the full length of that long gym on the back
of Lochinvar’s broomstick horse, without falling off.
The next issue of the Cottage Grove Sentinel referred to
Clara as the ‘ninety pound school teacher with the 100
pounds of pep.’ Everett Runk, who played the part of
the girl’s father, lost part of his make-up as he ran after
her and had to run back and pick it up, raising quite a
laugh.”
Tom and Pearl Clark remained in the area. Both
are buried in the McCulloch Cemetery on Briggs Hill
Road.
In school board notes written on November 29,
1933, School District #184 board members Art
Kragenbrink, George Powell, Baxter Renfro and clerk,
M. Brockelsby “met to discuss hiring a teacher. Miss
Shirley Harrold was hired. Contract drawn up for 4
months at $65 per month for teaching and $5 for janitor
work.”
The school district #184 consolidated with the
Lorane School District #36, and the school was closed
in 1940.
LORANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT #36
A two-story school house was once located on the
corner of Old Lorane Road and Cottage Grove-Lorane
Rd. where the Lorane Fire Hall presently sits (MB-I14).
It was built in 1892, and not only was it used as a school
with all eight grades in one room on the lower level, but
the upstairs was the Modern Woodman Lodge which
was used for lodge meetings, dances and fairs.
Anna Dunn Earls sent us memories about the
school. “I was in 4th grade at a one-room school at the
Modern Woodman building. There were 8 grades in one
room and it sat across from the Addison/Jackson Store.
I remember the pot-bellied stove in the center of the
room. Lala and Kirk Crowe were in my class. Oneta
Matthews was the only 8th grader and there were seven
in the 7th grade. Emma Robinson was the teacher for all
8 grades. I think she was related to Mrs. Del Addison.”
Eldora Damewood Flick remembers there being a
huge wooden swing on the school grounds that held
eight children at one time. There were also other smaller
swings, and Mother Nature provided a huge rock to
play on and a fantastic mud slide.
Eldora recalls the fun that she and Luella Sanderson
had playing on that mud slide each recess. She was always
returning home from school with her clothes covered
with mud, however. Her sister, Ethel Lynch, who was
also her guardian, soon tired of washing out her school
clothes which consisted of a black dress, black
underskirt and black bloomers, and threatened “Big
Trouble” if she came home dirty one more time. But,
the next day, as she tried to ride the mudslide down, her
feet went out from under her, as usual, and down she
went. Not wanting to get into “Big Trouble,” she went
to Lola Henderson’s house on her lunch break and asked
Mrs. Henderson if she might wash her dress out and
let it dry there. Mrs. Henderson agreed and offered to
let her wear one of Lola’s dresses until hers dried. She
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decided she needn’t bother, however, because her
petticoat looked just like a skirt, so she returned to
school in her petticoat and bloomers. At the end of the
school day, she returned to the Henderson house to
find her dress not only dry but freshly ironed as well.
She avoided “Big Trouble” that day, but had to refrain
from participating in her favorite recess recreation from
then on.
Another memory that Eldora Flick had of her days
at the Lorane Elementary School sounds as if it may
well have been something remembered by generations
of school children since. Eldora remembers Mr. Jackson,
her third grade teacher, saying to the class, “You kids
now-a-days don’t know sikkum about math. You can’t
do anything in your head!”
Teachers at the grade school, as remembered by
Nellie Henderson, included Ella Addison, Ethel Moore,
Myrtle Purviance, Ressie Bailey, Margaret O’Mara,
Nettie Addison, Daisy Bell and Margaret Sellers.
When the new grade school was built, the old
building was purchased by Chancy Davis. In 1927 or
1928, he moved it north of Lorane to property he
owned (MA-H16). His family converted it to a house
and lived there for a number of years. The Bert Hayes’
family lived in it for some years afterwards, too, until it
was torn down in about 1957.
Before the new school was ready for use, four grades
of the elementary school met in one upstairs room of
the high school.
The present Lorane Elementary School was built
in the early 1920s, and later consolidated several smaller
schools in the valley including the Letz Creek School,
the Green Door School, the Cartwright School and the
Lone Cedar School. The school was built in the shape
of a “U” with four classrooms, a library, a health room
and two restrooms surrounding an open play shed on
three sides. The play shed, at first, had a dirt floor and
the back wall was wire screening. Wooden flooring for
First Lorane Grade School and ModernWoodman
Lodge
the playshed was added in 1950. This play shed
encompassed the area now used as the library,
auditorium, and store room. In the beginning, the library
was located in the present office.
The playground equipment included swings, teetertotters, gliders and later, a merry-go-round, belonging
to the Lone Cedar School was added when that district
consolidated with Lorane.
On May 17, 1937, the Letz Creek School District
#37 consolidated with the Lorane School District #36.
On October 11, 1937, William Albright was paid $10
per month and was given the use of the old Letz Creek
School building by the Lorane School District in return
for transporting some of the children in that area to
the Lorane Elementary School. By December of that
year, a bus was routed to go to Letz Creek Road.
For a short period in 1937 and 1938, soup was fixed
at the Frank Davis house and was carried to the grade
school each noon hour for lunch for the students. Lunch
was eaten in the library and each student brought his
own bowl and spoon from home. As the students
finished and filed out of the room, they were each
allowed to take grapefruit or dried apricots from a large
metal washtub set near the door to be eaten for dessert.
In 1941, the seventh and eighth grades were moved
to the high school.
On August 16, 1943, the Lorane School Board
agreed to trade the 5-acre ball diamond lot for two acres
adjoining the north side of the grade school owned by
Mr. Oglesby. A week later, the district bought a lot
adjoining the watershed for $300 from Mr. G.W.
Woodward.
Before a well was dug for the school, drinking water
was brought through pipes from a spring located in the
hills behind it; hence, the watershed. The well was dug
sometime later.
In 1944, teachers and principals were given a 16 2/
3% salary increase, bringing the annual salary of the
high school principal to $2,800. The high school teachers
received $2,100, the grade school principal, $2,000 and
$1,800 per year for the grade school teachers.
In 1946, the school district paid 17 cents per gallon
for high octane Richfield gasoline.
The cafeteria was added in about 1948, as a
community project. Patrons of the school district
volunteered materials and labor. The hillside had to be
dug out using picks and shovels. The dirt was loaded
into wheelbarrows and hauled away. The foundation
was laid and the addition was erected using donated
lumber and concrete. The only person paid for the work
he did was the man who poured the concrete. When
the cafeteria was completed, women of the district
gathered in it to prepare and preserve a huge variety of
canned fruits and vegetables into half gallon jars to be
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Lorane Elementary School
sometime before the cafeteria
was built in 1948
used by the school for its school lunches. All of the
labor, jars and produce used were once again donated
by members of the community.
On December 5, 1949, the porch was authorized
to be built over the front of the cafeteria entrance.
In 1950, the school district and the Lorane P.T.A.
went together to purchase a brand new merry-go-round
for the playground.
A four-room addition, now used by the primary
grades, was approved by the Lorane School Board on
January 12, 1953. On May 18, 1953, a $55,000 bond
issue was approved.
Sixteen hundred feet of panel fencing was added
to the school grounds in late 1954, following the building
of the new addition.
In approximately 1956, a new gymnasium was built
for the school. It was built in time to accommodate the
added usage it was to receive by the 7th and 8th graders
who were once again transferred to the elementary
school following the closure of the high school in 1958.
Near the end of the 1950s, Elda Lowman recalled
that on two separate occasions, two years in a row, an
Army helicopter became lost in the fog and landed on
the school’s upper playground. Both occasions caused
quite a stir with the teachers and students, and most
certainly gave an added dimension of interest to the
day’s lessons.
Some lessons have always been harder than others,
according to Elda. Because music and art were required
to be taught in the schools, someone was designated to
work with the students in these areas no matter how illequipped they were to do so. Miss Lowman was a third
grade teacher at the time she was asked to take on the
duties of conducting the 7th and 8th grade music class.
She did not know how to play the piano, and wonders
if anyone realizes how hard it was to get the likes of
13-year old Les Mitchell and Lloyd Paseman to sing the
songs she wanted them to sing without the
accompaniment of a piano.
Some of the teachers who had quite a bit of tenure
at the Lorane Grade School through the years were
Mabel Crow, Tom Clark, Blanche Abbey, Neva
Workman, Lucille Gowdy, Pauline Schneider, Connie
Cronin, Elmer Jordan, Phoebe Berry, Lucille Mitchell,
Kay West, Patricia Castro, Kathleen Sampson, Vivian
Moreland, Hiram Hunt, Hope Grazier, Rosalie
Kuykendall, Eileen Colfield, Martha Loewen, Jean
Walters, Ruby Schmid, Carroll Noel, Georgann Squire,
and Marshall Sperling. Joe Dolan served as principal
from 1938-1943, and according to one of his former
female 7th and 8th grade students, he was “a fine teacher
– and handsome!” In later years, Tom Clark served as
principal as well as Archie McCrae, Silas Clark, Fred
Archer, William Jensen and Ted Forbes. Archie McCrae
and Fred Archer were also school superintendents for
a time. Elda Lowman was principal from 1968 to 1978.
She had been a teacher at the school before that since
1951. Carmen Hooker, who taught at Lorane
Elementary School beginning in 1971, took over the
position of principal in 1978. After she retired in 1989,
Marshall Sperling was appointed principal/teacher of
the school. He served in that position until 2005, when
Kathi Holvey became the principal of both Applegate
and Lorane Elementary Schools.
When the Lorane and Crow school districts were
consolidated into the Crow-Applegate-Lorane School
District #66, Edward Cooper, the former Crow School
District head, was retained as superintendent. After
serving 24 years as school superintendent, he retired in
1977. Michael Costello was then named to the post. He
served as superintendent until his resignation in 1980.
It was at that time that Richard H. Beebe was hired as
superintendent for the school district. He had been a
teacher and principal of the district for 21 years prior
to becoming superintendent. He passed away in 1989.
With the passing of Richard H. “Dick” Beebe, the
people of the Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District
lost not only a fine administrator, but a mentor and
friend, as well (see Beebe eulogy, page 225). Following
Dick’s death, Ed Miller was appointed interim
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Lorane Elementary School as it
looked in 2000
superintendent until Dan Barker was hired as
superintendent in 1990. After Dan’s departure, Richard
Jones served as the interim superintendent. Due to the
limitations put on school funding, the school district
opted to then hire a part-time administrator. Dr. Eileen
Palmer was hired in 2002 to fill that position.
A privately-run kindergarten at Lorane was first
taught in the old high school building where Jean
Walters and her husband Clair lived for awhile after
the school’s closure. Jean was the kindergarten teacher
for the 1964 and 1965 school years. It is then believed
that Patty Davis took over the teaching duties in the
Lorane Christian Church after the high school had been
condemned and the Walters moved to Crow. Garda
Jentzsch taught kindergarten in the church for the 1967
and 1968 school years. Kindergarten was then housed
in the elementary school building from 1970 until the
district established a kindergarten program in 1984.
Those kindergarten teachers remembered are Emily
Coughlin, Winona Bergstrom, Patty McCabe, Karen
Grover and Debbie Clark. During the years of the
privately run kindergarten, parents of the students
collectively hired the teacher.
Georgann Squire, a former third grade teacher at
the Lorane Elementary, was the first kindergarten
teacher hired at Lorane under the district-sponsored
program.
In 1984, the CroLane Junior High School was
restructured by the school board as a middle school.
The 6 th grade classes of Lorane and Applegate schools
were moved to CroLane, and each elementary school
included kindergarten through 5th grades. A few years
later, the school district was forced to restructure and
the 6th grades were once again made part of the
elementary schools. In 2002, to save the district from
making a painful decision to either close one of the
elementary schools or to consolidate with nearby school
districts, the 7th and 8 th grades were transferred to the
Crow High School, and the part of the building once
used by the CroLane Middle School was closed. In
addition, classes in the elementary schools were
combined to save additional money previously
earmarked for teachers’ salaries.
LORANE HIGH S CHOOL DISTRICT #U-2
The first Lorane High School is believed to have
been housed in the Modern Woodman Lodge building
from 1909, until it was moved to the Lorane Christian
Lorane Public School; 1915
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Lorane Grade School, 1928. Back row: Lloyd Seales, Dora Powell, Unknown, Cecil Henderson, Dean Powell, Lucille
Gowing, Edna Mitchell, Unknown, Doris Skelton, Darrol Davis, Thelma Cronin (teacher). Middle row: Hazel Clack,
Rita Sturtevant, Donna Davis,Wayne Seales, Estelle Mitchell,Virginia Addison, Shirley Currin, Hurley Castor, Marjorie
Skelton. Front row: Wilma Lynch, Lorayne Dillon, Dorothy Addison, Gertrude Barton, Raymond Anderson, Donald
Addison, Stuart Schneider, Carl King, Hugh Sturtevant, Burton Kelly, Leo Powell
Church building in 1912. Classes were held there until
the new building was erected in 1921.
Some of the teachers who taught at the Lorane
High School when it was housed in the church were
Mr. William Wray, Mr. Hoppe, Walter Jacob Moore,
Madge Hamble, Roy Andrews, Mr. Tidd and Della
Jackson. Among the students attending Lorane’s first
high school were Maud Jackson (Addison), Vera
Henderson (Seales), Laura Jackson, Clarissa Jackson,
Perne Crow, Elvin McMindes, Charlie Sanderson, Nellie
Sanderson, Gladys Davis, Horace Sutherland, Anna
Chapman, Gladys Chapman, Vida Richardson, Winford
Richardson, Edith Foster, Pearl Cowan and Helen
Foster.
Nellie Henderson, when interviewed by the Cottage
Grove Sentinel in 1977, remembered when the Christian
Church building was used as a high school between
1913 to 1920. Mrs. Henderson was the lone graduate
in the class of 1919. Eight students were in school that
year.
Some of the teachers, and even some students who
lived too far away to commute to school, boarded in
homes in the Lorane area during the week. Pearl Cowan
Clark remembers boarding at the Ted and Eva Hayes
home while she attended school at the Lorane Christian
Church. Other homes used for boarding were those
of the Jackson family, across the road from the school,
and the Addison family on south Territorial Road. The
old grade school that had been converted to a house
where the Bert Hayes family lived had six bedrooms
and accommodated many overnighters. School children
who lived too far away to go home after evening school
Lorane Grade School, 1926. Back row: Cecil Henderson, Hurley Castor, Francis Deeds, Mickey Little, Mrs. Berry, Darrol
Davis, Carl King, Otis Lynch. Middle row: Bill Lynch, Keith Sturtevant, Lorayne Dillon, Estelle Mitchell, Neal Barton,
Delmer Castor, Vernon Dillon. Front row: Hugh Sturtevant, Ruby Davis, Virginia Addison, Wilma Lynch, Lois Deeds,
Donna Davis, Lucille Gowing, Rita Sturtevant, Unknown
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Lorane Grade School, 1930. Back row: Lorayne Dillon, Edna Mitchell, Estelle Mitchell, Belva Cornwall,
Phyllis Addison, Lloyd Seales, Billy Lynch, Keith Sturtevant, E.W. Jordan (teacher). Middle row: Elnora
Dunn, Verna Harriman,Wilma Lynch, Dora Powell, Dorothy Addison, Darrol Davis, Earl Powell, Stuart
Schneider. Front row: Cecil Henderson, Leo Powell, RaymondAnderson, DonaldAddison,Avery Lohrey
functions would stay over and go home the next
morning. Service men and college students would also
stop over on their way home for a visit.
Even after the new high school was built and bus
transportation became available for most of the district,
the students who lived down Siuslaw River Road, who
had no access to a school bus route, had to board with
families in town. In 1932, Roger Roemhild boarded with
the Chauncey Blossers, Walter Cowan stayed with the
Ted Hayes’ family, and Ruby King was a boarder at the
Edward Farman home. The next year, the Lorane School
Board decided to pay William Albright $10 per month
for transporting Roger and Walter to school. Ruby
continued to board in Lorane. Some of the earlier
students who were needed at home during the week
were forced to quit school after the eighth grade.
The new Lorane Union High School, built in 1921,
served the community until its closure in 1958. The
school consisted of three classrooms, a small library
and an equally small laboratory on the main floor. In
the basement were the domestic science room, a
domestic art room and an apartment which housed the
teacher and his/her family. C.A. Wegel was the first
teacher at the new school, followed by Charles Dawson,
whose grandmother lived in the apartment with him as
his housekeeper.
Eldora Damewood Flick remembers her teacher in
1925. Her name was Laury Wilson James and she “shook
the whole gym when she walked across it.” She lived at
the school with her husband. The school enrollment
that year included Charlie Mitchell, Arthur Simonsen,
Lottie Pratt, Hubert Anderson, Elton Matthews, Thaone
Addison, Alton Witt, Luella Sanderson, Eldora
Damewood, Leland Addison, Frances Kelly, Lucille
Addison, Iris Brent and Lola Henderson.
Eldora loved telling a story about Thaone Addison.
“Thaone was always a whiz at mathematics. One day
we were all working on a particularly hard problem. All
of us decided to copy Thaone’s answer. Unfortunately
for us, Thaone got it wrong.”
Charles Dawson returned to teach school for one
more year. It was that year, 1926, that Lorane High
School’s graduating class consisted of only two students,
Eldora Damewood and Luella Sanderson. Each year
following their graduation, the two ladies held their own
class reunions by having lunch at one of Eugene’s finer
restaurants until Eldora’s death on March 15, 2002, at
the age of 95. Luella passed away on December 26,
2003, at the age of 96.
The 1929 Loranian, the high school yearbook, lists
Thomas Powers Jr. as the principal. He taught algebra,
biology, geometry, economics, advanced algebra and
social problems. The teacher that year was Lida T.
Jarmon. Her subjects were sewing, typing, civics, history,
English and domestic science.
The senior class in 1929 consisted of Harold
“Frosty” Foster, Wilma “Billie” Addison, Geneva
“Jimmy” Powell, Marjorie “Marj” Schneider, Nellie
“Ted” Schaffer, May “Maidie” Schaffer, Bessie “Cappie”
Addison, Mary “Clackamas” Clack and Helen “Toodles”
Watson. It was the largest graduating class Lorane had
up to that point in time.
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A “Banquet of 1929” was given to the seniors and
their parents in the high school auditorium. The
auditorium was decorated with orange and black crepe
paper, scotch broom and dogwood. Sixty parents,
students, teachers and school board members were
present. Dinner music was provided by the radio and
an Orthaphone phonograph. After dinner, the all-male
entertainment must have been hilarious. The skit was
printed in that year’s yearbook:
“Part I: They all sang songs and told jokes. Willard
Seales and Glen Hayes sang “When You and I Were
Young, Maggie.” Principal Thomas Powers, Clifford
Addison and Harold Foster sang “Polly Wolly Doodle
All the Day” and “The Family Toothbrush.” Clifton
Shortridge recited a negro poem. Rodney Dillon played
the violin. All were dressed in white corduroy trousers
and dress coats and red ties.
“Part II: Lawrence King played the accordion and
Rodney Dillon played the violin.
“Part III: Lawrence King played several numbers
on the accordion.
“Part IV: Glen Hayes, George Gowing and Donald
Kelly were dressed as fairies and gave a fairy dance.
“Part V: Thomas Powers was dressed as a woman,
his dress came to his knees and his stockings were rolled
below, and he wore a large hat. He sang as an opera
singer would.
“Part VI: Thomas Powers and Welby Schneider in
a Dialogue. Thomas Powers played a selection on the
ukulele. Then Welby Schneider asks him to play ‘I’m
Sitting On Top of the World’ and he was told to get
off. He then asks for another piece which they both
sang.”
Part VII was a play called “And the Lamp Went
Out,” starring Glen Hayes as Herbert Vanderslice;
Willard Seales as Ralph Grayson; George Shaffer as
Evelyn; and Rodney Dillon as Evelyn’s mother.
“Herbert, a disappointed lover of Evelyn, threatens
to cause trouble between her and Ralph. He is driven
from her home by her mother. When he comes back to
make trouble between Evelyn and Ralph, he is knocked
down by Ralph and Evelyn falls fainting at his feet. She
was helped to a chair by Ralph and then Herbert
congratulates her and stumbles from the room. Evelyn
then runs into Ralph’s arms.”
Evidently, the teacher in 1929, Mrs. Jarmon, left by
the next year and was replaced by Mrs. Verna M.
McCabe, according to the 1930 Loranian. Mrs. McCabe
taught English, domestic science, typing, civics and
world history. The 1930 class became more
knowledgeable about the history of the world, but
evidently had to learn sewing at home.
That year, Lorane High School graduated five
seniors including Clifford “Cliff ” Addison, whose
hobby was “Looking out the window,” and whose
ambition was “To be president of the Addison Lumber
Co.;” George “Colonel” Gowing, whose hobby was
“Smoking Luckies,” and whose ambition was “To smoke
more of them;” Clifton “Shorty” Shortridge’s listed
hobby was “Writing notes,” and proclaimed an ambition
“To sail around the world;” Lawrence “Major” King’s
hobby was “Repairing Fords,” and his ambition was “To
make them run;” and Rodney “Tex” Dillon’s hobby was
stated to be “Looking for a woman,” and his ambition
was “To find one.”
In 1932, Bellzona and Archie Hill walked five miles
to school each day, and walked the five miles home at
the end of classes.
In the ensuing years, it became the policy of the
school board to try and hire a married couple to serve
as the high school’s principal, teachers, coaches, janitors
and bus drivers. Wayne and Maybell Dey Robinson fit
the bill and were hired in 1930. They remember their
experiences in this capacity very well and wrote about
them in an unpublished manuscript entitled Two Teachers
Wore a Dozen Hats. They graciously allowed us to use
their stories in this book. Both lived and worked at the
high school from 1930 until 1933. According to Anna
Dunn Earls, the Robinsons had the distinction of being
the first married couple to graduate from the University
of Oregon together.
Wayne Robinson’s day began at 5 a.m each morning
when he arose and stoked the school’s furnace with
enough 4' long pieces of firewood to begin to get the
classrooms warm. After breakfast, he drove his 1924
Chevy to Gillespie Corners where he got into the
district’s 35-passenger school bus and drove the bus
route from there to Lorane while Maybell cleaned
classrooms and blackboards. Wayne would then drop
off his passengers, leaving them in Maybell’s charge,
run into the school and throw more wood into the
furnace, and then head on down Territorial Road to
pick up the students who lived south of town. Upon
returning, he would again stoke the furnace and start
the Kohler electric light plant. It was only then that
classes began. After school, Wayne reversed his school
bus route, delivering the students back home. Upon his
return, he and Maybell donned their coaching hats. He
coached boys’ basketball and baseball, and Maybell was
the girls’ basketball coach. The Robinson’s deliberately
took courses in college so that they would be able to
teach in some of the smaller two-teacher high schools
in Oregon. They tried not to double up on the same
classes so each would have their own specialties and
would be able to teach everything required. One thing
that was overlooked for Maybell, however, were the
coaching skills needed for girls’ athletics. So, after each
day’s practice ended, Wayne and Maybell would go over
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Lorane High School in church.
1910. Front row: Elvin McMindes;
Second row: Laura Jackson (next
to wall, ?, Vera Henderson
(foreground); Third row: ?, Maud
Jackson (in middle), ?
rule books and he would work with her and teach her
the things she would be working on with her girls the
next day. The same thing applied to the sewing skills
required for Maybell’s home economics class. Most of
the farm-raised girls knew more about sewing than
Maybell. In order to make it look like she knew what
she was doing with a pattern, she and Wayne would,
again, spend many evenings going over patterns, trying
to figure out what the directions were trying to tell them,
so that she would be ready the next day to help the girl
who was working on the garment involved.
After-school time was also spent in working on
upcoming plays, parties and dinners that were conducted
as community events by the high school students, and
sometimes by members of the community. Drama
productions were often very elaborate and highly
successful, involving the whole community. A new stage
had been added to the auditorium in September, 1932.
The Robinson’s clothes and household furnishings were
frequently used as costumes and stage props, leaving
their apartment unfurnished during the duration of the
play. Wayne Robinson tells in his own words how the
lighting was handled. “All of the stage lighting was
improvised. Overhead, spots and footlights were made
from coffee cans with light globes inside them. On one
occasion, we were putting on a “who-done-it” in which
the house lights had to be dimmed. I made a dimmer
by attaching the house current to two long pieces of
iron which were immersed in a jar of blue vitriol
solution. By pulling one bar out of the solution, the
lights were dimmed. Shoving it in more deeply brought
the lights up. I have wondered since then how I avoided
burning the building down or how I escaped
electrocuting myself.”
Each day was still not complete, however, until the
toilets were scrubbed, the classrooms swept and the
litter picked up around the school grounds. The
Robinsons’ salaries were $1,200 per year for Wayne and
$900 for Maybell plus $2 a day for janitorial work and
bus driving as well as the use of the apartment. On
weekends, the Robinsons participated with their
students in the various sports and typing competitions
that were entered. In the early 1930s, typing
competitions were as popular with the students as
basketball and baseball. Lorane won the Lane County
title and placed 5th in State competition in 1933, thanks
to students like Jim Mitchell, Reatha Runk, Bellzona
Hill and Ruby King. They prepared for the competitions
by typing in front of the high school student body,
followed by the grade school student body, and later
the same day, the Grange. I imagine that it was
scintillating entertainment for those watching!
Teachers were expected to uphold an unblemished
moral image for their students. They were not allowed
to smoke or drink, and after attending a Grange or
Lodge meeting or event, the Robinsons would quickly
return home and wash out their clothes which had
picked up the smell of smoke, so no one would think
that they, themselves, had been smoking.
Most of their laundry had to be sent out to a local
lady, as the Robinsons found there was too little time
for that chore. They were amused to learn, however,
that their laundress felt that Maybell’s underclothes were
more fashionable than those being worn by other ladies
in Lorane at the time, so she cut a pattern from them.
A couple of her friends were so impressed with them
that they, too, cut their own patterns. Because the
Depression was closing in on the families in the area
about that time, many of the “dainties” were made from
flour sacks. It was said that one particular lady in Lorane
was quite fashionable in her muslin underdrawers with
“Pillsbury’s Best” written across her bottom.
The Robinsons were notified by the Lorane School
Board in 1933, that their wages would have to be
drastically cut for the following year because of the tight
financial situation. It was noted that the Robinsons’
combined salary added up to more than “all the farmers
between Lorane and Gillespie Corners” made. They
were then shown a list of people who were willing to
step into the jobs at the lesser salary if they didn’t take
it. One man, in particular, had told the school board
that he would work for $35 per month if food and the
use of the apartment would be supplied to him. The
very tough decision was made to leave Lorane, and
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Lorane High School, 1931. Back row: Lloyd King, Mildred Dempsey, Donald“Speed” Kelly, LutherAnderson, Glen Hayes,
Lois Gowing, Lena Gowing, Welmer Seales. Front row: Kenneth Addison, Lillian Schaffer, Opal Henderson,Tom Partney,
Reatha Runk, Katherine Schneider, Eloise Addison and Jim Mitchell
before the school year came to a close, the Robinsons
had been offered a job in Wallowa County. They
accepted it. Anna Dunn Earls remembers them fondly
as “the best teachers I ever had!”
Two students, Welby Schneider and Donald Kelly,
graduated in 1931. The graduates of the class of 1932
included Perle Lynch, Glenn Hayes, Lillian Schaffer and
Anna Dunn. The school board chairman handed out
the diplomas and he also awarded Lillian Schaffer a
certificate showing that she had not been tardy nor
missed a day of school in her four years of high school.
Graduates of the 1933 class included Eloise Addison,
Thomas Partney, Luther Anderson, Kenneth Addison,
Lloyd A. King and Katherine Schneider.
Besides the Robinsons, other teaching “couples”
at Lorane High School were the Riggs and the Godards.
Lyle and Florence Riggs taught at the high school during
the years of 1933-1935. Leslie and Ruby Godard taught
there from 1935-1941. They were a very well-liked
couple and Mr. Godard was especially remembered for
his efforts in teaching woodworking. He and his class
spent a good deal of time and effort to build a scalemodel city in woodworking class. It was exhibited at
the Lane County Fair and the Oregon State Fair, and
was said to have been chosen to be exhibited at the
1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco,
California.
Harold Gowing wrote, “A highlight (in school) was
the shop class taught by Mr. Godard. One of the
projects that stands out and sticks with me is the
construction of the bus garage which was built by the
shop class. One of the many things that I have retained
over the years is the use of the square.” Harold has
since used the knowledge he gained many times in his
work with wood components and building roof trusses.
The sixteen 1936 graduates included Darroll Davis,
Louise Goodwin, Virginia Addison, Lloyd Seales, Emil
Sutherland, Wilma Lynch, Pauline Reinsche, Paul
Reinsche, Paul Edwards, Evelyn Nebergall, Elnora
Dunn, Harold Martin, William Lynch, Ernest
Theuerkauf, Stuart Schneider and Earl Davis.
Among the first bus drivers were Bill Mitchell and
Chauncey Blosser. In 1939, the school district paid 16
cents per gallon for gas, while in 1940, the price was
down to 14 cents per gallon.
In August, 1938, the two Lorane School Districts –
the high school and grade school districts – decided to
jointly purchase a new GMC, 2½ ton, school bus. The
specifications included 7.50 x 20 tires, heater, spare tire,
Superior body, 48-passenger, 27" center and folding
door. Total purchase price was $2,859.
In 1939, a new classroom was added to the high
school at the cost of $350.
The 1941-1942 Loranian states that Dallas Norton
was the superintendent/principal, and the teachers were
Mr. Beisner and Miss Kempston, a local lady. The
Lorane High School.
(Photo taken in 1930s)
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Lorane High School classes of
1939
District #36 board consisted of L.S. Dey, chairman,
Dan Warnock, C.G. Smith (Pat Edwards’ grandfather),
Charles Mitchell, Lottie Mitchell and T.W. Moore. John
R. Mulligan was the clerk. The District #U-2 High
School Board included L. Dey, chairman; O. McAllister,
William T. Moore (who had served for 20 years) and
Mrs. H.A. Mitchell, clerk.
On February 19, 1943, the Lorane High School
board ordered that there be no smoking in the school
buildings.
Harold Gowing fondly remembers his days at the
Lorane High School. “One highlight was going out and
getting a Christmas tree for the Christmas program at
school. In those days, the selection was very good and
there were no restrictions as to where you could go to
cut the tree. It would take us two or three hours to pick
the tree that was just right, cut it and bring it home.
The 1951-1952 Loranian lists Jack H. Gruber as the
superintendent/principal. He also taught math and was
the boys’ coach. Doris J. Walker taught English, general
science, geography, girls’ P.E. and was the librarian. Dale
R. Skewis taught American History, typing, business law,
shorthand and physical science.
Some of the other teachers who taught at the
Lorane High School through the years of its existence
were Miss Burkey, Theodore Forcier, Ruth McDonald,
May Masterton and Katherine Crumbaker.
By 1951, the Lorane schools had become very
crowded. The school board began discussing how best
they could relieve the situation. The consensus was that,
rather than put the taxpayers to the expense of financing
an addition to either of the schools, they would look
into the possibility of consolidating the high school with
one of the surrounding districts and move the grade
school students into the larger high school building.
On March 19, 1951, the school board clerk was
instructed to write to the Cottage Grove School Board
and ask for a date to meet with the Lorane School Board
in regards to sending the high school students from
Lorane District #36 to the Cottage Grove High School.
A meeting was set for April 4, 1951, but, evidently,
nothing transpired until March 5, 1953. At that time, an
entry was made in the Lorane School Board minutes
that “1. After a meeting with the Cottage Grove School
Board and a study of the transportation situation, it
was found to be impractical to transport our high school
students to Cottage Grove. 2. It was decided to meet
with the Applegate School Board with the possibility
of consolidation with that district for the purpose of
joining high schools and using the Lorane High School
Scale model home exhibit, 1940. Built by Les Godard woodworking class
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1933 Lane County Championship Typing Team:
Jim Mitchell, Reatha Runk, Maybell Robinson,
Belzona Hill and Ruby King
Lorane High School class - 1930s
building for the grade school, thereby relieving the
crowded grade school situation. 3. It was decided to
attend, on the invitation of Mrs. Klinge, a meeting of
the LaBlue, Twin Oaks, Pine Grove and Applegate
boards at the Pine Grove School, relative to area
consolidation. 4. It was planned to call a meeting of the
Lorane, Applegate, LaBlue, and Pine Grove School
boards at the Applegate School on March 9, 1953. Mrs.
Klinge and Mr. Beck to be at this meeting, and its
purpose is to investigate the possibility of a
consolidation of the four districts.”
On May 11, 1953, a special election was held at
Lorane to determine if the community wished to
consolidate with the other school districts. The school
was opened for the election for one hour from 8 p.m.
until 9 p.m. During that time, 59 people voted for the
consolidation and 72 voted against it.
The closure of Lorane Union High School occurred
when the Lorane and Crow school districts did finally
consolidate and became the Crow-Applegate-Lorane
School District #66. The Lorane high school students
were transferred to the Crow schools, and the high
school at Lorane was closed at the end of the 1958
school year.
Ironically, the reason for the consolidation and
closure at this later date was due to the small high school
student enrollment. The last graduating class was
comprised of less than 10 students, and the total
enrollment never exceeded 40 students.
According to a Register-Guard newspaper
Lorane’s first school bus
article,“Thelma Foster – Lorane storekeeper, postmaster
and widow of a longtime Crow-Applegate-Lorane
School District clerk Harold Foster – ” was the highest
bidder for the purchase of the 2-acre high school site.
She bid $2,010.53 and was one of two bidders. Rex
Keep, the other bidder, offered $1,010. A condition of
the sale was that the school had to be demolished within
one year. In accordance with the agreement, the high
school building was demolished in 1969, and Thelma
moved a home from south Territorial Road onto the
site.
LORANE LITTLE SCHOOL
The Lorane Little School daycare center was opened
in November 1992, by Kyle Rolnick.
With over 14 years of building a reliable reputation,
Kyle has built the business into one that working parents
have learned to trust. They feel comfortable knowing
that their children are being cared for by local licensed
and trained daycare professionals in a home
environment within the community.
According to Kyle, the center, located in the former
Armitage house on Cottage Grove-Lorane Road (MCI12), “is a small licensed center that offers a safe,
comfortable, home-like setting. It’s a place where there
is lots of positive attention from trained and experienced
staff who respect and enjoy children. The program
emphasizes providing creative and engaging activities
as well as developing social and problem solving skills,”
and the ratio of adults to children is higher than most
centers.
The children at the school are socialized and well
equipped to enter kindergarten when they reach the age
of 5. While attending daycare, they get to participate in
such events as the Lorane Elementary School’s
Christmas programs each year. A further service to
working parents, school-aged children can ride the bus
from the elementary school and enjoy the company of
other children from Lorane until their parents arrive to
pick them up.
1987 LORANE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, August 7, 1987
7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
"Vaudeville Kick-Off Night" featuring the Presentation of the 1987 Lorane
Centennial Court. An evening of old-time entertainment, judging of the beard-growing contest, a "tall tales"
contest, followed by a pie social.
Saturday, August 8, 1987
6:30 A.M. - 8:30 A.M. Centennial Breakfast. Sponsored by the Lorane Rebekah Lodge #252. It will
be held at the Lorane Elementary School cafeteria.
10:00 A.M. Centennial Parade featuring as its Grand Marshall, Duane Crowe, grandson of William N.
Crow and Lillie Harris Crow who named the community of Lorane, Oregon in 1887. Parade route TBA.
(This has not yet been confirmed.)
11:00 A.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Centennial Booths and Exhibits. Food, crafts, souveniers, etc. will be on
sale, and children's game booths will be set up. The Lorane Rebekah Lodge #252 will be exhibiting antiques
and memories associated with Lorane's history. The Lorane Christian Church will have a photo exhibit, and
the Lorane Rural Fire Department will display their equipment.
11:00 A.M. Hog Calling Contest. If there are enough brave souls to enter the fun and vie for a prize,
this contest will be held on the Lorane Elementary School baseball diamond.
12:00 NOON Draft Horse Pulling Demonstration. This event will take place behind the Lorane
Elementary School.
1:00 P.M.
Horse Shoe Pitch Contest for the pro and the novice. The pit will be located behind the
Lorane Elementary School and will remain open the rest of the day for the enjoyment of the non-contestants.
1:00 P.M.
Children's Games featuring sack races, three-legged races, potato races, hoop roll, tug-owar, and a greased pig contest in "Star Games" type format. (Others may be added later.)
1:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Down-home Entertainment. Those who wish to stay out of the sun and visit
may do so while being entertained by square dancing, folk dancing, old-time fiddlers, and school bands in the
Lorane Elementary School gymnasium.
2:00 P.M. Centennial Softball Game featuring the Lorane "sluggers" against an, as yet, undetermined
opponent team. To be held on the Lorane Elementary School ball diamond.
5:00 P.M.
Centennial Tug-O-War.
undetermined opponent team.
6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
location TBA.
The Lorane "brawn" will be pitted against an, as yet,
Lorane Grange Dinner. The menu will be announced at a later date. The
8:00 P.M.
Western Gospel Concert sponsored by the Lorane Christian Church featuring
_________________________________. Location TBA.
9:00 P.M.
Country-Western Barn Dance to be held in conjunction with the Lorane Centennial
Celebration and sponsored by the Pruitt's Equestrian Centre in Lorane. Live music and lots of fun.
Sunday, August 9, 1987
7:30 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. Centennial Breakfast. No sponsor as yet.
9:45 A.M. - 12:00 NOON Lorane Christian Church Service featuring the "Ministers of the Past".
12:30 P.M.
Annual Old-Timers Picnic to be held in conjunction with the Lorane Centennial
Celebration. Potluck lunch. Location TBA.
3:00 P.M.
Lorane Centennial Pageant to be held in the Lorane Elementary School gymnasium under
the direction of Sharon Boehringer.
Miscellaneous Information
Parking: Most parking will be at the Pruitt Equestrian Centre on Lorane Orchard Road. On Saturday,
August 8th, a horse-drawn shuttle service is scheduled to run between the areas of the school and lodge hall
and the parking area on a regular basis for a nominal charge. We wish to close Old Lorane Road to
automobile traffic on Saturday, August 8, 1987, if possible.
R.V. Parking: Nothing definite has been planned for R.V. parking. If you wish to bring an R.V. for the
weekend, but do not have a place to park it, we may be able to arrange a spot, although there would be no
hookups. Please contact us regarding your needs by July 1, 1987. A self-addressed stamped envelope is
requested for a reply.
Self-Conducted Tour of Homes: It is our plan to have a "tour guide of homes" available for sale listing
the homes in the area and a brief history of each.
Note: There may be changes and/or additions to this schedule before the August date. For an updated
schedule of events, you may pick them up at either of the Lorane stores or the Lorane Country Cafe after
May 1, 1987, or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Lorane Centennial Association, c/o Estelle
Counts, P. O. Box 13, Lorane, Oregon 97451.