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| Karolyn Rose Ward |
My school days in Snowville had four grades in one room. I had five classmates my age, 2 girls and 3 boys. Mother or Daddy would have to take us five miles to school and pick us up after. At the time the school board would even pay them for bringing us in to school because there wasn’t a bus route. It seemed like I was always waiting for them, never knowing when they would get there. We didn’t have phones in those days so I couldn’t call them. I just had to wait and see when they would show up. When I started my own family, I told Arlin, “I don’t care where we live as long as my children can walk to and from school.”
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| Karolyn Ward - Second Row, 4th Student from the Left |
When my brother Allen was born he was sick a lot, so mother and dad decided to buy a home in Tremonton and we would spend the winters in town. That only lasted for one school year, and then they sold the home, and we spent the rest of our school years back in Snowville. I loved that year and had a great teacher, and it was so fun to walk to school and have lots of friends to play with. It was also nice to be in a classroom with all the same grade students.
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| Karolyn Rose Ward |
My 8th grade year was probably my worst. I had been really good friends with Kay, Pat, Rosanne, and Phyllis, but they were all a year older than me. So when they left for high school, I was left behind for a year. I was a cheerleader that year and did enjoy being a cheerleader. I don’t remember much about what games we had or who we played. I do remember spending all of my recess time crocheting. My mother never crocheted, but she did beautiful embroidery work. Grandma Dredge did crochet but she never taught me. When she’d go with Grandpa to be up in the sheep camp, they would come up to DuBois a lot of times for the summer because that’s where he had his range for all his sheep, and she would just sit and crochet all the time and make these beautiful doilies. Kay and Pat had taught me how to crochet and we spent a lot of time in the winter months crocheting hot pads and simple things. My favorite part of school was probably when I could sit and crochet through recess. I probably wasn’t the smartest student, but I did alright. I never liked writing themes.
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| Karolyn's Class 1951 (Karolyn is in the second row, third from the left) |
