Another school picnic – around 1950
100 Gather for Annual Picnic at Dayton School
One hundred attended the annual picnic of the Dayton school yesterday at the school grounds.
Dinner at noon was followed by races and other sports. Later ice cream and cake were served.
Winners in races were Carl Schmidt, preschool age; Shirley Patterson, 1st grade; Sylvia Ralrick, second grade; Rosemary Patterson, third; Bobbie Buckley, fourth; Ardelle Taylor, fifth and sixth; Elaine Thomas, seventh; Edward Patterson, eighth; Teddy Mathews, high school; Mrs. Homer Matthews and Mrs. Naomi Trent, married women’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Summons, Mrs. Morris Ponton, Mrs. Mayme Ryan and Miss Elizabeth Ryan of Chicago, and Mrs. Fred Ritzius of Ottawa were out of town guests.1
- The [Ottawa, IL] Republican-Times, May 29, 1944, p. 8, col. 6
Dayton and the Greens 
I was 6 months old and probably there.
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I had no idea that Naomi Trent went to Dayton School. I was probably in 7th grade when she called me “impudent”. I flounced to my seat and when I thought an appropriate amount of time had passed, I slithered to the giant Webster’s dictionary, looked it up and agreed that the word was properly used on this occasion.
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She didn’t go to school there, but the teachers participated in the contests, too.
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