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Description
The students and their teacher, inside Pettingill School. The Pettengill School, built in 1899, was located on Maine Avenue in Rumford. Waldo Pettengill gave the land to the town on which to build the school and it was originally named the Maine Avenue Primary School. In 1900 the name was changed to the Pettengill School in honor of Waldo Pettengill. The school was closed in 1972 and demolished in 1976.
Row 1 – Viola Roy, Stanley Koliche
Row 2 – Olga Saisi, Robert Fournier, Jeannette Belanger, Francis Gauthier
Row 3 – Maurice Goudreau, Phyllis McKenna, Melvin Cohen, Constance Pelletier
Row 4 – Robert Bruce, Elizabeth Roderick, Joseph Beauchesne, Marian Gauthier, Wayne Sweat
Row 5 – Pauline Wellwood, James V. Sullivan, Antoinette Chaisson, Roland Gagnon, John Kaubris
Row 6 – Adelard Cayer, Rita Paradis, Hilda Bragoli, Eva Richards, Arthur Martin
Row 7 – Armand Gagnon, Ida Martin, Lucy Beaudet
About This Item
- Title: 1936-1937 Grade 5 Pettengill School, Rumford, ca. 1936
- Creation Date: circa 1936
- Subject Date: circa 1936
- Location: Rumford, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Pettingill, Waldo--Commemoration
- Schools--Maine--Rumford
- Students--Maine--Rumford
- School children--Maine--Rumford
- Franco-Americans--Maine--Rumford
People
- Beauchesne, Joseph
- Beaudet, Lucy
- Belanger, Jeannette
- Bragoli, Hilda
- Bruce, Robert
- Cayer, Adelard
- Chaisson, Antoinette
- Cohen, Melvin
- Fournier, Robert
- Gagnon, Armand
- Gagnon, Roland
- Gautheir, Marian
- Gauthier, Francis
- Goudreau, Maurice
- Kaubris, John
- Koliche, Stanley
- Martin, Arthur
- Martin, Ida
- McKenna, Phyllis
- Paradis, Rita
- Pelletier, Constance
- Pettingill, Waldo
- Richards, Eva
- Roderick, Elizabeth
- Roy, Viola
- Saisi, Olga
- Sullivan, James V.
- Sweat, Wayne
- Wellwood, Pauline
For more information about this item, contact:
Greater Rumford Area Historical Society145 Congress Street, Rumford, ME 04276
(207) 364-2540
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