Waynetown School Reunions

CLASS OF 1870 - Sand Bank School

Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier Mon 31 July 1933 p 4

Waynetown, July 31 - The 9th annual reunion, class of 1870, Sand Bank school will be held Thursday August 3 at the home of John Hayes, northeast of Waynetown. Organized in 1924 by 16 survivors of the original class of 29 members the reunion personnel was: Mesdames Rhoda Monroe; Jane Smith; Mary Moore; Barbara Clark; Miranda Snyder and Ellen Switzer and John Moore deceased since organizing; George Moore, Anacortes, Wash and John Miller ,Bellingham, Wash who have never been able to attend a reunion; Mesdames Clara Gilbert, Springfield, Ill; Lavilla Cording, Wingate; Elizabeth Petro and Eldorana Fouts, Waynetown; Messrs. Charles Miller, Mellott; John Hays and Thomas Quillen, Waynetown. Their teacher, Charles E. DeHaven, Covington will be 89 years of age in September. He has attended all but three of these reunions. Sand Creek deriving its name from an adjacent gravel pit, was a country school, located three and a half miles east6 of Waynetowm on the Stebbins Quick farm. It was a district school until 1912-14 when it was consolidated with the school at Waynetown. After being abandoned as a school, the building was moved to a different location and is utilized as a chicken house on the Quick farm now, the property of Mrs. WS Merrell, whose mother was Mrs. Rhoda Monroe, a class member and daughter of Stebbins Quick. Originally taking place at the home of Mrs. Monroe, the reunions since her passing are held at the home of various members. A basket dinner is featured and a short business session is held but the greater part of the day is passed in "just reminiscing." Class members plan to hold these annual reunions as long as two members remain, the single survivor to then observe the occasion in a fitting manner.