| Cass
County Michigan Old Schools Rosters |
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We are collecting information about the old schools
of Cass County, Michigan, up to and including 1955. Please send us your old
school information,
ie. graduating classes, school rosters or pictures.
Graduating classes may be 5th, 8th, 10th or 12th grades. And school pictures
and rosters from any grade are welcome. Old schools of Cass County (work in
progress)

1896 School District No. 9
Contributed Robert Phelps

Penn & Volinia
Townships
Frona Waterstradt - Teacher
D. De France,
Director
-----Students listed on program are:
| Katie Higgins | Grover Higgins |
| Don Hunt | Corol Ayers |
| Cecil Drake | Birt Vangelder |
| Tommy Higgins | Hattie Higgins |
| Blendeena Crego | Glenn Keller |
| Lloyd Keller | Cora Vangelder |
| Lulu Higgins | Earl Decker |
| Don Decker | Sadie Hodges |
| Hattie Granger | Jimmy McCraner |
| Claud Higgins | Allie Roberts |
| Daisy Hodges | Lyman Ayers |
| Elmer Roberts | Bert Newfer |
| Belle Granger | Irving Mowry |
| Nina Roberts | Elta Decker |
| Floyd Wade | Lorena Higgins |
| Ernest Wing | Ernest Munson |
| Robert Forsythe | Freddie Forsythe |
| Lewie Depuy | Milton Depuy |
| Clyde Wing | Della Roberts |
| Roy Wade | William Cropsey |
| Freddie Depuy | Petie Beck |
| Genie Hunt | Willis Shaver |
| Clarence Shaver | - |

1905 - 1906
GENEVA SCHOOL, District No. 1
Penn
Township, Cass Co. MI
September 4, 1905 - June 1, 1906
Miss Beatta CASTERLINE, Teacher
School
Board:
Harry D. GLEASON, Director
Merril D. JONES, Moderator
Walter
M. BOGUE, Treasurer
Pupils:
First Grade:
Pearl AVERY
Edith AVERY
Helen GLEASON
Leda SELNER
Alfred SHANK
Second Grade:
Guy
BOYD
Myrtle BOYD
Bertha SELNER
William SELNER
Fourth
Grade:
Rolland BOGUE
Raymond COOK
Lennie SHANK
Fifth
Grade:
Ruth BOGUE
Margaret LINK
Victor SHANK
Thomas
STAPLETON
Sixth Grade:
Hazel COOK
Daisy JONES
Eight
Grade:
Ethel COOK
Submitted by Cathy O'Hare

1907 - 1908
GOODENOUGH SCHOOL Dist. 5
Volinia Twp.,
Cass Co. MI
Sept. 2, 1907 - May 28, 1908
Miss Lyle CASTERLINE
- Teacher
Wm. H. C. HALE, Com. of Schools
School
Officers
Otis CROPSEY - Director
George CROPSEY - Moderator
F. A.
JUDIE - Treasure
Pupils:
Pearl TYLER
Elda MOTT
Vera JUDIE
Nellie GRAY
Elvaro CROPSEY
Frank BROWN
Verna MOTT
Beatrice
JUDIE
Wells CURTIS
Donald GRAY
Ebert L. LAWRENCE
Dorothy
GRAY
Ethel LAWRENCE
NOTE: There is no grade classification so I
have listed them as they were listed on the card. Possibly older to
younger or younger to older?
Submitted by Cathy O'Hare

1909 to 1910 District No. 4 Calvin
Contributed and notes from
Marshall H. Sanders, Jr and Maurice W. Sanders
Moderator on front page is
James H. Wilson - maternal grandfather
Two of the students Donald Wilson and
Marguerite Wilson are his children.
Posted In Memory of James H. Wilson
(1869-1948), Dr. James Donald Wilson, DDS (1904-1984) and Edith Marguerite
Wilson Newsom (1902-2002.
(For large image of programs below, just click on
picture)
| Officers | Position |
| I. M Day | Director |
| Jas. H. Wilson | Moderator |
| Jas. Dungey | Assessor |
| Students | |
| Donald Wilson | Icle Dungey |
| Marie Bunn | Marguerite Wilson |
| Artie Williams | Elsie Williams |
| Lucille Dungey | Hazel Ash |
| Roscoe Dungey | Howard Snelling |
| Harold Lawson | Beatrice Wilson |
| Charles Mathews | Ethel Brown |
| Des Voignes Wilson | Lloyd Wilson |
| Wilbur James | Kermit James |
| Hoyt Kirk | Ethel Stewart |
| Elsie Dungey | Margaret Pompey |
| Gay Byrd | Golda Stewart |
| Theresa Byrd | Myrtle Mathews |
| Cloyd Byrd | Orva Dungey |
| Bennie Wilson | Pearl Ash |
| Earl Ash | Wallace Allen |
| Essie Wilson | Alta Day |
| Jessie Curtis | Russell Wilson |
| Theodore Wilson | Augusta Chavous |

Center School
District No 4, Calvin Twp. Roster
Circa 1908 to
1912
Contributed by: Marshall Sanders
| Henrietta Lawson - teacher | |
| Pupils | Pupils |
| Donald Wilson | Marquerite Wilson |
| Elsie Dungey | Harold Lawson |
| Wilbur James | Earl Ash |
| Ethel Stewart | Lloyd Wilson |
| Icle Dungey | Marie Bunn |
| Des Voigne Wilson | Artie Williams |
| Elsie Williams | Beatrice Wilson |
| Pearl Ash | Ethel Brown |
| Charles Matthews | Golda Stewart |
| LeRoy Jeffries | Wallace Allen |
| Lucile Dungey | Essa Wilson |
| Howard Snelling | Roscoe Dungey |
| Isaac Jeffries | Hazel Ash |
| Bennie Wilson | Jessie Curtis |
| Alta Day | Augusta chavous |
| Theodore Jeffries | Floyd Curtis |
| Egbert Chavous | Ida Gilliam |
| Orva Dungey | Olin Byrd |
| Preston Byrd | ---end student listing |
| Isaiah Day - Director | James Dungey, Treasurer |
| James Lawson - Moderator |

ALLEGHANY SCHOOL Dist. 5
Penn Twp., Cass
Co. MI
Sept. 3, 1917 - May 17, 1918
Miss Lyle CASTERLINE -
Teacher
Ruth M. MOSIER - School Com.
School Board:
A. M. GLEASON - Director
F.
J. STAMP - Moderator
John MCCULLY - Treasurer
Pupils: {listed in
the order as listed on the card, no grade classification}
Maurice
PLAYFORD
Mae STAMP
George MCCULLY
William HAITHCOCK
Robert
CURTIS
Russell PRESCOTT
Winona GLEASON
Carrol MCCULLY
Wilson
MCCULLY
Vance COOPER
Catherine GLEASON
Alberta HAITHCOCK
Lois
CURTIS
Nellie GLEASON
Vera HARTSELL
Mildred MCCULLY
Evelyn
GLEASON
Dorothy GLEASON
Neil PRESCOTT
Russell ALEXANDER
Frank
MCLAIN
Jane GLEASON
Submitted by Cathy O'Hare
