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the schools were a worthwhile public undertaking.
The school board was required to attend. “1 often wondered if they slept through the whole thing,” Mrs. Keyser said. It was a tremendous responsibility for the teachers—working on the displays, setting them up, making sure the students got there and returned home. In fact, in 1934, the teachers asked the school board to discontinue the ceremony. Because the students were so overwhelmingly in favor of the commencement, the ceremonies were kept until much later, during the war.
Edna Mills, then a student at Forest Grove, remembers the county commencement exercises as “the main event of going to school. It was what you looked forward to all year,” a day of plays, picnics, programs—and exhibits. Mrs. Mills, who now operates Mills Store at Estes, has special reason to look back with pride and pleasure at those long ago gatherings at the high school in Washington.
Miss Ida Brown, teacher for the fourth through seventh grades at Forest Grov^, sent her into the backrodpi of the little tworoom school house with stacks of construction paper, scissors, glue and poster paper. Edna spent hours cutting and pasting the Star of Bethlehem, the wisemen and their camels. She got her reward at commencement when her exhibit was judged best in the county for first place.
Forest Grove All of Edna Mills’ formal education came in the two rooms at the Forest Grove School. Before she moved up to Miss Ida’s class, she learned her ABCs from Miss Lucy Nelson who taught first through third grades. Youngster walked in those days, some from as far as five miles away. “Everybody enjoyed going to school. I don’t think anyone really detested it. If they did. the^— wouldn’t have walked that far!”
Edna was one of the lucky kids. She lived just across the field front the school. "But 1 remember wading through snow up to my waist to get there a few mornings. No one
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