Newspaer article, October 18, 1939
PUPILS VISIT GILLESPIE
Miss Marian Motto, teacher of the fifth grade at Wilsonville, and her sixteen pupils accompanied by Miss Marian Pomatto,
spent Wednesday in Gillespie visiting places of interest.
In the first place a number of the boys and girls had never ridden a steam engine and so they began the day by going to
Bunker Hill and taking the train to Gillespie.
They visitied the post office where the postmaster explained the various departments and postal regulations. At the telgraph
office they were shown how telegraph messages were received and sent.
A visit to the Gillespie Dairy explained how milk was pastuerized, bottled and cared for. The group were treated to ice cream.
They went to the telephone office and each child had the opportunity of talking to their home town -- Wilsonville.
Mr. Long directed them through the bank and explained how the combination to the vault worked. He also permitted the
children to hold a large sum of money, more than most of them will perhaps ever be able to possess.
They were chilled at the Gillespie Ice and Fuel plant, yet received a warm welcome. The new locker system was explained to the children.
At noon they had lunch at the Gillespie Grill and this was the first meal many of the children had eaten in a public restaurant.
In the afternoon they visited the Gillespie News Office and witnessed this week's edition being made. The big press was operating
and they were shown how the paper was composed as well as folded, trimmed and ready for the mails.
They enjoyed their visit to Biava's Bakery as they were not only shown how huge batches of dough was made into bread and baked in
large ovens but were also treated to sweet rols and given a sample to take to their homes.
The day was brought to a close by a visit to the Library where Mrs. Shaw told them of many of the books obn the shelves.
This trip was made possible by the pupils earning the money. Infact, they had more than enough for their trip. Some was used
in purchasing pictures and other equipment for their room. Each child also had twenty cents and a visit to the dime store
provided them with a small gift for their mother and a toy or candy for themselves.
The children were delighted with their day's experience and without a doubt it afforded them more information than they would
have gotten from their books in several days. They had studied something about telephone, telegraphing, banking, etc., but
to actually see it all in operation was much more impressive.
The students making the trip were : John Cavallo, Beulah Chappell, Ped Calvert, Elsie Degardin, Lauretta June Dumez,
Victor Fassero, Gloria Perardi, Mary Rose Vigna, Wayne Hays, Fern Stiller, Theresa Traban, George Gundlach, Enrico Pacchetti,
Lucille Rossio, Florence Teslo.
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Newspaer article, 1939
SENDS CHRISTMAS JOY
Miss Marian Motto and her fifth grade students from Wilsonville performed a very kindly act by preparing
a large Christmas box for the children of the St. Louis Children's hospital to help bring Christmas cheer to their little souls.
This work was done in conjunction with the art class work and they made scrap books, color books, animal books,
jointed toys, gifts, etc. Each child enclosed with his gift an appropriate song or verse and gave their names so that
if they desired each sick child might correspond with the donor.
They are in receipt of a card from the Board of Managers of the hospital thanking them for their gracious act.
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Photograph furnished by : Lynn Sloan-Shehorn
December 23, 1939 ( or 1940 )
Lauretta June Dumez - back row, 5th from left
Gloria Perardi - 4th row up, 7th from left
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