Orson Clark-11/23/81 - Pg 14

Orson Clark: Oh, yes.

Interviewer: Let me ask you this: Who was the principal of the school at that time?

Orson Clark: Henry Should was one. George Q. Knowlton. George Q. Knowlton was the one at the last part.

Interviewer: How many teachers were there in this building at the time? How many classes?

Orson Clark: Well, there used to be two classes to a room.

Interviewer: Which teachers do you remember from this school?

Orson Clark: I remember Minnie Nelson and Quince Knowlton.

Interviewer: Which subjects did you do the best in?

Orson Clark: Oh, I don't know.

Interviewer: Which ones did you like the best, let me ask you?

Orson Clark: Oh, I don't know as I had any preference in particular.

Interviewer: Did you like school?

Orson Clark: Yes, yes I did.

Interviewer: How would the teachers maintain discipline? If the students misbehaved, what would they do?

Orson Clark: Send them to the principal.

Interviewer: And what would the principal do?

Orson Clark: George Q. Knowlton, when he was principal, he was one of those outstanding men. He could handle these kids and they would love him for it. They would come out of it.

Interviewer: They felt that he loved them and was sympathetic toward them?

Orson Clark: That's the way he would treat them.

Ruth Knowlton: In other words, he wouldn't take the cat-of-nine-tails to them every time they came in?

Orson Clark: No.

Interviewer: They didn't get birched or switched then?