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STIRLING CITY SCHOOLS
The educational facilities afforded by the Stirling City Schools are most excellent, and a matter of just pride to its citizens. The school building is beautifully located on a hill, at a convenient distance north of Stirling City. The flag presented to the school by the former principal, Miss Mary Lynch, now of Cherokee, Butte County, continues to be a source of patriotic inspiration to the pupils, and a healthier, happier, more robust lot of bright school children never assembled in any school. The pure water, bracing mountain air, and wholesome moral, intellectual, physical and spiritual environment conduce to bring out the best there is in the Stirling City boys and girls who are in attendance.
In the three departments – primary, intermediate and grammar – eighty-two pupils are enrolled. Twenty-six of these are in the two grades of the primary department, under the able management of Mrs. Mildred Miller; thirty-four are enrolled in the three grades included in the intermediate department, under the competent tutelage of Miss Edith Clindenin; and twenty-two are in the three grades of the grammar department, under their excellent teacher, Mrs. Ruff, the principal of the school, who resides with her husband, W. D. Ruff, in the Evansville district. Mrs. Ruff is one of the best teachers in the county, and will soon have completed her thirty years in the schoolroom; and although a mother and the wife of a leading stockman of Butte County, she purposes to pursue her profession until then.
Miss Clindenin is an Oroville girl who takes high rank among the able teachers of Butte County. She is an active worker in church circles in Stirling City, generously contributing to every good cause. Mrs. Miller is fast gaining prominence as a teacher of marked ability.
The board of trustees are: W. H. Thatcher, Martin Tufford, clerk of the board, and Andy Moore. The last-named has recently moved away, and his place is still vacant.
Transcribed
by Roseann Kerby.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1093, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Roseann Kerby.
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