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Friday, September 21, 2007
Story last updated at 4:36 pm on 9/21/2007
Willowdale School District #3 All-Class Reunion Planned
By: Robert F. Lyons
Press & Dakotan
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When word traveled through cyberspace that the alumni of Willowdale School District #3 were planning to have the first-ever all-school reunion on Sept. 29, in Yankton, I wondered if my wife, Nona, and I would be able to make the trek from New England. But when I saw that the majority of my five older brothers and about 50 other people educated in that one-room schoolhouse planned to attend as well as some of teachers, I knew we had to make the 3,000-mile journey. So we eagerly look forward to that trip down memory lane and what’s left of the willow lined lane east of Yankton.
About 40 years ago when I was enrolled at Manhattan College in New York City in a Masters of Education Administration program, I let out to those seasoned and quite citified classmates that my primary school education began in a one-room school on my father’s farm and that I walked to school every day down a dirt road with my five brothers and twin sister to the schoolhouse. My classmates held me in a certain awe after that admission, except for the few who would not believe there was anybody alive who had lived in that pioneer way except in the TV series, “Little House on the Prairie.” I did not tell them that it took us all of about five minutes to skip along from our house through the woods and over the fence to Willowdale School on my father’s farm.
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Might be Marymount?
Lyons, Robert F. (MC????)
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Dear John,
I do believe that Bob received his Masters from Manhattan but I am nit sure of the year.
Mike
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