| Show A DAY AT SCHOOL Talula Mt Nelson Box 148 Pleasant UT 84647 Senior Citizen Division Honorable Mention Historical Second Essay The Mt Pleasant public school building later named Hamilton School was erected in 1896 at Main and First East It wasmajestic well-built building three stories high having twelve large classrooms four on each floor and spaclous halls and wide doorways The rich red brick was made by the Mills brothers shaped in molds and fired in their Kiln east of town The Matson stone cutters hewed the solid rock that went into stately arches above the entrances each of the tall windows on the upper floor and beneath the bell tower Solid rock slabs also adorned the building above each of the long windows on the other two floors adding to the overall red-and-white grandeur of the building Metal block letters formed the words Boys above the west entrance and Girls above the east the date 1896 under the windows on the third floor and Public School over the arched entrance on the north this was topped by the bell tower where the bell hung in its majesty above the front entrance adding to the stateliness and dignity of the building The bungalow roof with no gabled ends gave ituniqueness that was in keeping with the splendor of the architectural style Landscaped with beautiful lawns and stately lombardy poplars this enduring building erected atcost of 20 000 served as the public school for seventy-five years It was in this exciting new buildingstarted my schooling Whatthrill to go with my older sister Farrie to begin my education The smell of fresh paint the new desks and clean hlackboards added to my shyness asentered and found my first teacher the lovely Jennie Jorgensen Rasmussen She was the Kkindest personhad ever seen delightful first-grade teacher It was all so wonderful asformedline with all the other first grade girls on the east side where it said Girls It was unthinkable to try to enter on the west where the boys entered or on the front where teachers and parents and other dignitaries entered Here on the east lined up at the sound of the bell three abreast in perfectly straight lines we ed for the gound of the piano All in perfect step we our rooms stood spellbound watching the older pupils march -118 |
