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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1953)
1 maiiM!niiMn!iiniiii ' l(EDFORDvC,TRIBUlfI SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 19S3 l";.;- i:f::r,;A --It z- y'- 1 i v S fit. , : - ' y f : y" : j ' i lf 1 1 " J Summer EncJs School Begins By OUVE STARCHEX Summer is almost gone, vacation ends today and tomorrow morning will see hun dreds of students returning to Medford schoolrooms. In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Gil bertson, 315 Vancouver avenue, tomorrow morning will be of special importance. Both. Mr. and- Mrs. Gilbertson will be returning to their teaching . duties at Washington school, and the younger of their two sons will enter the first grade. Mrs. Gilbertson and PhilKp, 6, are shown (upper left) as Phillip tries on his new school jacket. Mr. Gilbertson and John, 8, are pictured (center left) as father gave son some football tips. Mr. Gilbertson coaches grade school athletics at Wash ington. . Hundreds of youngsters ride the school , bus and morning finds them waiting be side the road for the big yellow vehicle. Sharon O'Connors, sixth grade pupil at Griffin Creek school, is shown (upper right) watching for the bus near the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold O'Connors, route 1, Box 369. Waiting with Sharon is her Spaniel pet. Penny. Last week teachers of District No.. 49 participated in the annual in-service train ing program. Tuesday noon they gath ered in the hall at senior high school to meet board directors and later attended a luncheon presided over by Vern F. Wolthoff, president of Medford Teachers' association. New teachers include a number, from the mid-west. Pictured (lower left) are yefl to right) Miss Peggy-Grooms, Duncan, Okfa., junior high faculty; Miss Barbara Elken, Mayville, N. D., senior high school, and Melbior F. Kumsha, Virginia, Minn also new to the junior high .faculty, talking with E. H. Hedrick, superintendent of Med ford schools Three new Jackson school teachers shown (center right, left to right) are Mrs. Shirley Hercher, 1953 graduate of Lewis and Clark college; Mrs. Angela Thompson, Cottage Grove, Ore., and Mrs. Mina Has man. Mr. Wolthoff is shown (center, lower right) with Frank Bash (at left) and Otte Ewaldsen, board members, at the luncheon. (Brainerd photos). - , -v . y j ; r ."-ess I) J : -1 - ' ";i A. 1 (1
