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- The brick River Valley Elementary
- School was located on the northwest corner of Willard Avenue
and Kellogg Avenue and the building is still standing. When I
attended, only 1st through 4th grades were taught there. We were
sent out of the area for 5th and 6th grades. My 5th grade was
at Roosevelt and my 6th grade was at Washington. So I attended
River Valley during the 1953/54 and 1954/55 school years. The
school had two rooms - one to each
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- side of the main entrance. The basement of housed the milk
machine, had a lunchroom of sorts and was used for summer activities
and scout troop meetings.
- Mrs. NOLAN taught 3rd grade and Mrs. MALONEY taught fourth.
(Poor Mrs. MALONEY;
- as kids will do, she had the nickname of Mrs. Baloney.) Another
teacher was Miss WEAVER. The principal was Mrs. Grace KNIIPP.
- Until 1954 River Valley School was outside the city limits
of Janesville (in Rock Township). I don't
- know when the school was built.
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- There was another building separate from the
- original brick building. This housed the kindergarten
- through 3rd grade classes. This annexed building had a hall
down the center with classrooms on both sides. It was parallel
to Willard Avenue and is no longer in existence.
- Some of the families who attended the River Valley
- Elementary School were BELL, WEBB, THOMPSON, SPLINTER, ZEBELL.
The rest I can no longer recall.
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- Data and photos (taken in 2002) courtesy of Gail (ZEBELL)
LANZA & her siblings
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