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Show One room school program slated valleys." "We invite all interested in-terested persons to step back to another era and learn of the time when the school, the one-room school, was the center of the social and cultural activities of the community," com-munity," she said. The one-room school, she said, played a vital part in American history. "Students or 'scholars' as they were called then, received a good, basic education at a fraction of the cost of education today. Immigrant children learned to speak English in rural country schools, and they became American, regardless of where their parents were born. Country schools were vital links in the lifestyles of early settlers. The one-room school became the pride of the community. Dances, debates and Christmas programs kept the school alive and families in touch with each other. Most important, children received the education that parents did not." CEDAR CITY A special program on one-room one-room schools, "The Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier," will be presented Nov. 2 in the Southern Utah State College Library. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Room the program will include a 28-minute film on the one-room school, a panel discussion by teachers and students from southern Utah who taught at or attended a one-room school, and a question-and-answer period. The program is free, and light refreshments refresh-ments will be served. "A traveling exhibit will be on display in the library lobby from Nov. 3 to 7 as part of the Country School Legacy project," said Diana Graff, library director. "The public is invited to look over this display during regular library hours, 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday and on Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m." The exhibit and program are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association and the SUSC Library. "At the turn of the century, the United States had 200,000 one-room one-room schools in operation," Graff said, "but today there are only a little more than a thousand. The Country School Legacy program was developed to find out what happened to all those simple white frame buildings that dotted the prairies or were tucked away in narrow mountain |
