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Belfast school

I was in the first class of 4th graders that attended Belfast School when they consolidated the Bright Local School District into just 3 schools in 1968. Concord School in Sugar Tree Ridge held the 1st to 3rd grades, Belfast, 4th thru 8th and Whiteoak High School was in Mowrystown. We were known as the largest land mass school district in the state but the most sparsely populated. Thus the need for consolidation and bussing children 12 miles one way to school, considered a long way back then. My grandmother, Mildred Holladay Workman taught one group of 4th graders, but not my class as I was in the A to M group of 30 students and she had the N to Z group. My mother still has all the year books as with me being the oldest of 6, our family had children in those schools for 25 years and still does today as my parents great grand children are now attending as well as the last 4 of their 20 grandchildren are still there. However I don't believe Belfast has been used for quite some time now.

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