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Former Union Hall and West Peru School in 1910 (now a residence).
  Sits across the road from the present day elementary school.
This school was built in 1860, by Cyrus Dunn, who is said to have laid most of the bricks by himself.
  The Peru Elementary School which was built in 1936.   By 1943 all other schools within the town, had been closed, and the students were transported to the new school at West Peru.   The East Peru school below, at the end of the 1942 school year, was the last school to close.

District #1,   East Peru School,   Winter of 1912

Students that year were as follows:   Gladys and Marguerite Babb, Derriel and Beryl Bryant (my father and aunt), Frank, Leslie and Wilbur Irish, Merton and Fred Luce, and Charles Clark.

My name is Craig Edgar Bryant, and I was born and raised in East Peru. Grammer School for me was at West Peru Village, and the below pictures are some of my classmates.

I believe these were taken in 1952, when we were in the 4th grade.

Craig Bryant
Derriel Bryant
Robert Knox

Richard Knox

John Wiken
Jeanne Wiken
Martha Oldham
Pearle Porter

Myrna Monteith
Philip Howard
Gloria Prist
Wyvern Lufkin

Florence Howard
Rick Gerrish
Virginia Robichaud
Jerry Dennis

Patricia Brown
Samuel London
Eileen Donahue
Fredrick Miller

June Gammon
Robert Bowie
We graduated June 8th 1956 from the West Peru Grammer School. Of the above 4th grade students, Robert Bowie and June Gammon left, and David Young, Ernest West, Wayne Thurston and Richard Beck moved into town. Whereas, Peru did not have a High School, we had the option of going to either Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield or Canton, and most of us choose to go to Stephens High School in Rumford. Class of 1960. Now known as the Mountain Valley High School, M.S.A.D. #43.

Front row, left to right.   Robert Knox,   Myrna Monteith,   Patricia Brown,   Eileen Donahue,  Martha Oldham,   Jeanne Wiken,   Pearle Porter,   Florence Howard,   Gloria Prist,   Virginia Robichaud,   Craig Bryant.       Rear row, left to right.   Wyvern Lufkin,   John Wiken,   David Young,   Rick Gerrish,   Ernest West,   Philip Howard,   Jerry Dennis,   Wayne Thurston,   Richard Knox,   Samuel London,   Fredrick Miller,   Richard Beck,   Derriel Bryant.


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