School: Greenwood – 5 Teachers & Custodian Retire (1974)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Berrett, Zellmer, Herrell, Siebert, Hediemann, Wolter, Jackson

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 13 Jun 1974

Five teachers and a school custodian were honored at a retirement party, which was held at the Elementary School on Friday. Teachers, administrators, school board members, bus drivers, and staff members were present. Mrs. Geneva Berrett conducted the program as mistress of ceremonies, and Mr. Kenneth Bartels, Greenwood Superintendent of Schools, spoke about each retiree. Each honored member was introduced with a special verse composed just for him or her, and sung by the audience. They were also presented with a corsage and gift. Members of Unit B, the G.F.A. Social Committee planed the event.

Mrs. Marie Zellmer retired with a total of 36 years of teaching. Her first assignment was at the Connonville school in 1929. She also taught at Maple Center, Sunnyside, Eaton Center, Willard, Loyal, Christie, and for the past ten years has been at Greenwood. Her immediate retirement plans consist of remodeling a farm house in the Fairchild are, to which she and her husband Alfred will retire to catch up on fishing and traveling, and all of the things they've wanted to do.

Mrs. Dorothy Herrell taught a total of sixteen years. She stated her career at the Clark State Graded school in 1927. Since then she taught at Augusta and Bloomer before entering the field of special Education. Her first year in this work was at Phillips, and she has been at Greenwood for the past eight years. Her retirement plans include for her her and her husband Francis to buy a home in the Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls area, to gravel, knit, paint, and to do volunteer work in the field of special education. Mrs. Herrell feels that her eight years working in the field of trainable children has been most worthwhile and a marvelous experience.

Mrs. Barbara Siebert of Neillsville started teaching at Bowler, Wisconsin in 1941. She also taught a year at Berlin, and has pend the past eight years in the Greenwood High School math department. Barbara and her husband Earl have purchased a travel trailer and plan to spend their first winter in Texas.

Mrs. Wiletta Heidemann began her teaching career of 32 years at Eastside school in the town of Butler in 1935. Since then she has taught at the Eastside, Fairview, Blackberry and Willard schools, the Neillsville and Owen-Withee public schools, and Sheboygan County Teachers College. She then entered into the administrative field, and for the past ten years has been Elementary Principal in the Greenwood Public School system. Her teaching at Owen-Withee was also as Elementary Supervisor. She helped to plan Greenwood's new open concept school. She carried out an orientation program to train teachers and to guide students into the I.G.E. setup, which is now implemented in the Greenwood schools. Mrs. Heidemann lists her retirement plans as indefinite.

Mrs. Nina Wolter of R.R. 1, Loyal, has taught in the Greenwood School system for the past 6 1/2 years as Title I instructor. She became ill last November and is presently in the Marshfield Convalescent Home.

Einar Jackson began his 27 years as school custodian at Greenwood in 1947. At that time there was only one building to house all of the grades and the high school. At first he was the only janitor to service the Greenwood school and 11 consolidated schools. At that tiem the school ran three buses and some of the routes were 50 miles or more. Mr. Jackson also recalls shoveling coal into the schools' furnaces. His retirement plans will still include duties of heading the Greenwood bus program as Director of Transportation.
 

 

 


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