East Cabot School
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District #7 - East Cabot School (Near Molly's Pond, on Route 2)
"My grandfather [Walter ABBOTT] was school director when he was seventeen. So he kept all the records and I've got that book somewhere . . .it's quite interesting. You know, they had the same problems we have today only smaller scale. 'Course it was as big in those days. But he almost got kicked off the board because they apparently were building this schoolhouse over on the corner here, and of course he was right in the area and the carpenters wanted some finish boards to [put] round the windows or something. And he went ahead and said, 'Okay, rather than hold you up, get the boards and put them up.' And that didn't go over big because they had to have a meeting on that." -- Walt GOODRICH
Arecca URBAN taught at East Cabot School. "We got our sign -- Superior School -- while I was there . . .I boarded at Carrie O'CONNER's -- cost me thirty dollars for my board -- right across the road [from the school]. She was a wonderful cook. She was nice to me."
The 28 students at East Cabot during the 1933 - 34 school year were taught by Iris WOOSTER. There were four from Peacham: Howard, Robert, and Luella BEAN, and Gilbert HOUGHTON. Also attending that year were Gordon, Clare, and Alice ARCHAMBAULT. Thelma and Erlene BEATON. Denise, Fernande, and Pauline BLOUIN, Anna CLARK, George and Melvin FISH, Ilene GOODRICH, Glenna, Gordon, Henry and Oris SARGENT, Elton, Iona, Onis, and Ruby SHATNEY, Hazel and Warren STEVENS, Ernest WHITE, and Etta SARGENT.
"In the fall of 1937, I was the only one in the 8th grade class in the East Cabot elementary school. So in June of '38, my graduation from the eighth grade, took place in Cabot Village, along with eighth graders from the other elementary schools in Cabot. Usually Mother made my clothes, but for such an important occasion, we decided on a lovely rose-colored dress and ordered it from the Sears Roebuck catalog, praying it would arrive on time -- which it did!" -- Ilene GOODRICH BOTHFELD -- (Alumni Notes)
" . . .I went seven years at East Cabot. Then my eighth year I went to Cabot. And the next year they closed it. That was a big shock, you know. Neighborhood all fell apart, kinda . . .always something going on, and you know, had a good time . . .I was just a kid, but it was real exciting times at the old school house. I was janitor for quite a while. 'Course you had to go and lug water because there was no water there . . .and I remember when I went there it was just the beginning of everybody had to have their own cup. Most of us had folding cups, and I've never seen one since . . .You drank out of it and put it in your desk, you know, and it was there all year. The oldest boy always went and got the water over at Frank [O'CONNER's]. Hang, we used to learn more, you know -- when we were supposed to be writing or something, we'd be listening to the upper classmen . . .That was a lot more interesting than what we were supposed to be doing. We had a lot of fun in the old one-room school . . .The neighborhood all kind of fell apart when they closed the school. We used to have box suppers, there was always something going on. All the neighbors got together and had a good time. Now, hang, we don't ever see our neighbors." -- Walt GOODRICH
"Maida BROWN was the last school teacher they had there. Wendell GOODRICH was on the school board when they closed that. Ernest ACHILLES went up -- they had a meeting -- and Ernest ACHILLES, oh, he gave Wendell GOODRICH an awful lecture. He said, 'Your farm won't be worth fifty cents if you want to sell it, Wendell,' he said, 'and I pity you if you can't use any better judgement than that.' Oh, Erne had a mean tongue if he was upset. But it was the times." -- Russ THERRIAN
The town voted in 1949 to instruct the school board to sell the East Cabot schoolhouse at public auction. Frank O'CONNER bought it for $1,025. The building is now a private home.
Quotes - Source "Cabot, Vermont A Collection of Memories From The Century Past" A Publication of the Cabot Oral History Committee - 1999 Excerpts from pp - 150, & 151.
Book available. $20.00. Order from President Bonnie Dannenberg of the Cabot Historical Society.
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