Maple Leaf School
1870 - 1959

Restoring a Memory from Childhood Days

Site of Maple Leaf School District #10, 1892-1959

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James and Permelia Latimer donated property for the purpose of providing a school in 1892. One of the first teachers was Thomas H. Goyne who married Daisy Latimer. Provision was made if the school closed, the property would revert to the Latimer heirs.

After the closure, the Latimer heirs, through the efforts of grandson Tom Goyne, donated the building and property to the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum Foundation.

Dedicated this 30th Day of May, 1993
In Memory of James & Permelia Latimer

Teachers Over The Years

Margaret Frances Elliott (1872) | Thomas H. Goyne (1886) | Dr. Dyer (1899) | Birdie Perkins Kerreman (1899) | Edith Perkins King (1899) |  Mrs. Myers (1902) | Lottie Price (1905-1907) | Elsie Scovell (1906) | Amanda Tinnerstet Haberlach (1909-1910) | Esther Munson Near (1909-1910) | Mrs. Tinnerstet Burge (1912) | Mr. Bryan (1912) | Mrs. Harriett Ford (1912) | Elsie Lamb (1912) | Frank Pinkstaff (1912) | Lillian Buel  (1916) | Sylvia Rowe Hoskins (1916, 1944-1945) | Miss Daggett (1917) | Lelia Doty (1920) | Frankie Steinbach (1920) | Maude Miller Johnson (1921) | Rose Tilden Anderson (1923-1926) | Lillian Keyte Logan (1923-1926) |Retta Boquist (1925) |  Mary Roberts Dunn (1927-1930) | Mrs. Hall (1928) | Mrs. Robbins (1928) | Mrs. Rose Clawson (1929) | Rose Schild (1930-1934) | Alberta Wilson (1929-1937) | Evelyn Steidinger (1931) | Margaret Perry Fountain (1934-1940) | Marian Dick (1941) | Gladys Aberding (1943-1956) | Otta Biggs (1945-1946) | Orda Hammer (1946-1947) | Marjorie Maxwell (1946-1949) | Miss Findley (1949-1950) | Mrs. Dibble (1954-1956) | Myrtle Fletcher (1954-1956) | Marie Simmons (1955-1956) | Orella Chadwick (1959) | Gloria Rickard (1959)

Unknown Years
Mildred Criswell | Mr. Braley | Miss Cherry |  Velda Williams Dahl | Mrs. Erickson | Harold Lewis | Grace McNeil | Mrs. Wingarer | LaVern Dahl | Floyd Culberson
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Maple Leaf School Pictures (1912)

The year the school began is uncertain, but it is believed that some form of a school began approximately 1870. That date is based on the following information.

1872 |Margaret Frances Elliott
The first certified school teacher was Margaret Frances Elliott. She was born June 9, 1854 in Nashville, Tennessee and crossed the plains with her family to East Portland in 1860. At the age of 17 she came over the Trask River Trail to Tillamook. Within a short time she returned to Portland and completed her education at St. Helenes Hall. It's believed that she began teaching at Wilson River School in 1872. There is information indicating that some form of school existed for a year or two before she arrived, but that there was not certified teacher.
1886 | Thomas H. Goyne
he second teacher was Thomas H. Goyne who arrived in Tillamook in August 1886 (22 yrs old). He later married Daisy Evelyn Latimer in 1888. One of his former students, and their son, Thomas W. Goyne, was responsible for getting the deeds from the Latimer Heirs so the property could be transferred to Tillamook County Pioneer Foundation (later transferred to the Friends of Latimer Quilt and Textile Center).

1923 - 1926 | Rose Tilden Anderson
Miss Tilden taught 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. She mentioned many interesting happenings at the school. The school board was reluctant to purchase fire equipment but after a fire started in the basement and the flames came up through the wall registers, the older boys, having no hose or buckets, filled their boots with water and were able to extinguish the flames. Purchase of fire equipment was then authorized. Since the school was situated on the banks of the Wilson River, the flooding of the basement was a common occurrence leading to many unscheduled holidays in the winter.
One of her more amusing recollections was when the basketball team defeated Liberty School's team, much to the chagrin of their coach.

1923 - 1926 | Lillian Keyte Logan
Miss Keyte was the school principal and taught 6th, 7th and 8th grades.

1929 - 1933 | Evelyn Steidinger
Evelyn taught school for more than forty years and from 1921-1953 taught in Tillamook County at Fairview, Hunt, Long Prarie, Maple Leaf, Pine Grove, Wheeler and Rockaway Beach. She taught 3rd, 4th and 5th grades at Maple Leaf.

1930 - 1934 | Rose Schild
Rose had 12 pupils in her room - four in the first grade and eight in the second grade.