The Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1982 Page: 25 of 34
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Mannford In Perspective
Mannford Eagle 1982
Page 7
20 Years Ago
changed overnight.” The and can tell you names of
Move Affected All Ages
By ELAINE TURNER
town
'because Oklahoma is
seating but mainly specta- still booming."
There was a hang-out for gym floor.
as
At pack of anything, they
the time it (the move from just jacked it
said.
the number of people the town extremely well and never thought.
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Last Class Of Seniors Graduate
From Old Town In Spring Of 1962
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recalls 1961 and 62
years of excitement.
of the C.O. Adsits, long
time Mannford residents.
youth and teens then just
as there is in the new town
likes Mannford best, and
she’s attended schools in
Nineteen hundred sixty
two was the year of the
last class graduating from
the Mannford School in
the old town. Superinten-
us
jun
third grade teacher at the dent that year was Roy R.
old Mannford school and Russell and Veo Story was
continued to teach for the principal.
Little Gents of Wiadem
Some of us have a good
aim in life but never pull
the trigger.
Be yourself if you ever
expect to be somebody.
A man is not rewarded
for having brains but for
using them.
immI
Teachers that year were
Azalee Hart, first grade.
a cap and gown for the Sylvia
A move firom a home and
a town where one has
resided for many years
up and
-emember
activities too, it seems...
like the movies (current in
that day) that were shown
on a screen situated on a
flat bed truck in front of
Varnell’s Auction. Some
chairs were set up front
and then cars parked
behind them along the
street. They charged....
maybe a quarter; I don't
really remember.”
after a year or so that we
hadn’t had before, was
football. We had had
basketball and baseball.”
The gym located in the
sub-level basement in the
school had some floor
earlier was moved to the
new townsite and added
on to. "We didn't have to
Failures are divided
into two classes: those
who thought and never
did, and those who did
old Mannford to the new
site) was something new
and different. The new
never really wore off,
even while I was still in
school.”
Goatcher sang for us that
night...I know she sang at
different town functions
sometimes,” Ron said.
When the move was a
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°emonayuyob°
leaving from school from
it one day in the old town
and going home to it that
afternoon in the new
town,” Ron recalled. His
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state of the economy
brought Ron, his wife
Novella ‘Nicki" (Banning)
and seventh grade daugh-
moved it. 1
The Forrest Adsit family parents Forrest and Bon-
settled in Mannford nie Jo still live there
around 1944. They lived in ’ where the movers placed
a rent house belonging to * their home, 192 Green-
feelings from despair and residents, the Adsits who
anxiety to a solemn have spent most of their
nostalgia. Twenty years lives in the area never
ago to toys and girls considered moving any-
making the move from the where but the new town,
town of old Mannford, it Ron said, and even at that
seems to have caused yet time they were very
another response. positive about it.
Ron Adsit, son of Forrest The home that Forrest
and Bonnie Jo (Cunning- Adsit had built for his
ham) Adsit and grandson family a year or two
Ron graduated in the Tulsa, California and
graduating class has had a people* and established
10 and 15 year reunion businesses.
with better than half ” I bought my hats, jeans
returning to talk of old and boots from Mr.
times, but Ron missed the Hinton at his mercantile
• tenth because he was store for years."
“One thing the new living in another state and These lives were
school system provided couldn’t make it back. The changed 20 years ago
because of a deliberate
flooding of the area in the
name of progress.
“We were pretty excited
about it and never did
think the new town would
not succeed-."
the Mannford School
system after the move.
Ron remembers wearing
man. sixth and seventh.
William Gibson, science
and eighth, Mabel Sto-
vall. home economics. Loy
Steward, agriculture,
Leroy Eslick, commerce
and grade school coach,
Kate Russell, history and
english, and James
Basham, history and high
school coach.
The sixteen seniors grad-
uating that year were
Eddie Williams, Wilma
Evans, Terry Boyington,
Gloria Mills, Micheal
Mannford School as it looked in 1962. The
elementary grades were in the left end of the
building while the upper grades were taught in
the two story section.
The sub-level basement housed the
gymnasium and the auditorium was above that
on the right end of the bullding-
Thascheol grounds were fenced and stone
Eb front of the holding supported the
O’Kief, second,
Rhoades, third.
night graduation cere- Audrey McDonald (widow
mony which was held in of Mannford’s Dr. Mc-
the auditorium above the Donald), fourth, June
gym. “I think Margaret Gibson, fifth, Zella Mor-
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SCHRISTMAS I
Bock, Marsha Evans, |
Patricia Farrow, Gayle
Reed, Bill Roper. Dwight i
Varnell. Raymond Lewis, I
Kenneth Lord, Kay Mor-
eino Jones, Bonnie Stand-
ridge. Kay LeGrand and
Tom Mann which was
located across the street
from the Mannford
School. Ron began first
grade there in the
Mannford School (there
was no kindergarten) and
was one of 25 to graduate
from the 8 th grade class in
1962. During that time the
school held actual gradua-
tion ceremonies with
programs and diplomas
for students who had
completed grade 8. “The
school discontinued that
practice shortly thereafter
because psychologically it
had an afiect on some,”
commented Mrs. Sylvia
Rhoades. “When a stu-
dent finished eighth
grade, there were some
whose parents didn't
encourage them to con-
tinue with their schooling
and so that was all they
got.” Mrs. Rhoades was
"megakmmzisum ®
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briar Circle.
“That first year when
Halloween rolled around,
about half the town was
moved and half wasn't. It
took a while for the whole
town to make the transi-
tion,” Ron said. “After
the move I missed the
trees. It seemed very
barren in the new town;
machinery had leveled
everything off.”
“It seemed like people
were closer in the old
town, because it was
smaller and more com-
pact. We had more social
can cause a range of certainty for
ter Melissa back to
Oklahoma in 1980,
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today. “We went to a spring of 1966 from the Washington. She’s made
dairy-diner type place we new Mannford High a lot of friends."
called Nichols. I’m sure it School and eventually “When I go back to old
had another name, but it entered the Navy. “I’d Mannford now I can only
belonged to Joe and Rose come home every six recognize where Tom
Nichols. It had two or months or so and would Mann’s rent house was by
three pinball machines be amazed at how many the trees. The driveway
inside and then too, we people I didn't know," and other landmarks are
would sit out .in the Ron commented on town gone,” Ron said, but he
parking lot and talk,” he growth. “It seemed like remembers the layout of
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Sissom, Shirley. The Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1982, newspaper, November 11, 1982; Mannford, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1948924/m1/25/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Keystone Crossroads Historical Society.