Old and New Schools Cass County Michigan

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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.

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Old School Rosters	High School Grads	Colleges & Trade Schools	Report Card Reports & Examples

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Calvin School No. 5 - 1908 Submitted by Benjamin Kinsey	1st Cassopolis School Band 1934-35 Contributed by Lynne Stockdale Wilson	Center School, Calvin Twp. Cass Co circa 1908-1912 Contributed by: Marshall Sanders
Cassopolis HS Championship Band -1941 John Stockdale - Music Teacher	Jr. VFW State Champions 1941-42 - Cassopolis Under direction of John Stockdale	Cassopolis 5th Grade Class Contributed by Lynne Stockdale Wilson Some corrections submitted by: Roy T. Bergman See *** Below
Cassopolis High School Band circa mid 1940's Teacher John Stockdale Contributed by Lynne Stockdale Wilson	1947 Cassopolis HS Football Team Photo - Contributed by Lynne Stockdale Wilson Click on photo for Team Roster Contributed by" Roy T. Bergman	Cassopolis 7th Grade Class - 1948 Mary Wright was the teacher Lynne Stockdale- now Wilson - photo contributor. See Class Roster Below
Willow -Pond School Circa 1928 Contributed by: Maurice Sanders	Swamp School Cassopolis, MI Circa 1910 Submitted by Benjamin Kinsey	Mt. Zion School - Circa 1915 Contributed by: Marshall Sanders
Brownsville School Contributed by: Esther Stewart	Brownsville Another View Contributed by: Esther Stewart	Geneva Schoolhouse 1898 Penn Twp - Decatur Rd near M-60 Contributed by: Marshall Sanders
Vandalia Intermediate School 1922 to 23 contributed by: Ruth Emeline Anderson Walker and Marjorie Anderson Norton	Patrick School built 1854 (other source says built in 1859 and torn down in 1938) Section 29 Marcellus Twp Photo taken in 1904by Leslie Goff of Lawton, Oklahoma, contributed by: Lois at: grumpycrab29@yahoo.com	Vandalia Intermediate School circa 1928 contributed by: Ruth Emeline Anderson Walker and Marjorie Anderson Norton
Cassopolis Union School Gothic style architecture - Originally white brick with red trim 1878 to 1951 school razed in the 1960's. photo contributed by: R. Thomas Bergman	Can you identify this school ? Unknown school in Cass or Van Buren Co. contributed by: Sharon Cornell at s19kayc@verizon.net	~~~

Present Day schools of Cass County
(work in progress - If I have omitted anyone's present day school, please email me and I will add them. )

Brookside Learning Center 61662 Dailey Road, Cassopolis, MI 49031 269-445-6258 grades: PK - 12
Cassopolis Public Schools
Cassopolis Alternative ED., P.O. Box 98 , Cassopolis, MI 49031 269-445-0536 - grades: PK - 12
Frank Squires Early Elementary School, P.O. Box 98 , Cassopolis, MI 49031 269-445-0516 - grades: PK - 12
Ross Beatty H igh School, P.O. Box 98 , Cassopolis, MI 49031 269-445-0541 - grades: 7 - 12
Sam Adams Elementary School, P.O. Box 98 , Cassopolis, MI 49031 269-445-0530 - grades: 3 - 6
Dowagiac Union Schools 206 Main Street Dowagiac, MI 49047 (Home of the Chieftains)
Union Senior High School (269) 782-4400 701 W Prairie Ronde St Dowagiac, MI 49047
Edwardsburg Public Schools 69410 Section Street Edwardsburg, MI 49112
Marcellus Community Schools P.O. Box 48 Marcellus, MI 49067

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***1946 - 5th Grade Glass Roster - from photo above
Roster contributed by: Roy Thomas Bergman
Front row left to right - Delores Keith, Virginia Volvin, Joan Foster, Nancy Hansell, Marilyn Fitzgerald, Ramon Gilbert, Jerrel Reneberg, Tom Bergman
2nd Row L to R - Vivian Dickerhoff, Sally Olsen, Dixie Spooner, Mary Bowers, Helen Friemund, Melvin Monette, Howard James
Back Row - unidentified student, Charles Taylor, Billy Dungey, Alvervnon Danzy, Richard Brown, Norma Jean Castleman, Pearl Swank (Teacher), Gary Smith, Tom Willard.

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**** 1848 7th Grade Cassopolis Grade School
Roster contributed by: Roy Thomas Bergman
Front Row L to R - Jerrel Reneberg, John Mitchell, Gary Smith, Berouyn? Shall, Tom Willard, MelvinMonette, Janice Hamel, Carol Ernst, Marilyn Fitzgerald, Dixie Spooner
Nancy Hansel
2nd Row - Howard James, Jim Hildebrand, Ramond Gilbert, Billy Dungen, Jack Harrington, Tom Bergman (actually between rows 1 & 2 -white T-shirt), Alvernon Danzy,
Marlene Bidwell, Ruth Ann Sloan, Norma Thompson, Vivian Dickerhoof, Ginger Scheunemann, Esther Eaglebarger, Mary Wright (Teacher)
Back Row - Roger Haines, Charles Taylor, Cecil Haines, Phillip Stockdale, Sally Olsen, Helen Freimund, Joan Foster, Lea Rae Parker, Lynn Stockdale, Tom Hibler.

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