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Frances Savage (Taylor)

Frances Savage taught at the Mile Square School in Avon from the fall of 1937 through to Thanksgiving of 1938 (when she went back to Farmington to take enough courses to graduate. In those days they could have a teacher's certificate after two years of college.) The pay was $11.00 a week. Then in 1939, She went to Dead River and taught for three years for the princely sum of $13.00 a week. Because the war years were on and families fluctuated, she never had more than 13 pupils or 6 graders at a time. But those were great years for her.

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	Frances Savage 1942 after a school picnic		Frances Savage (Taylor) at a picnic in 2003
The Mile Square School 1937
	The Mile Square School		Mr. Minot Flagg, Sr. came for his kids and others in this "school bus" when heavy snow fell during school hours
	Left to Right- Back row: unknown, Ruth Mill, Beulah Flagg. Middle row: Lester Gould, Edith Mills, Jim Mills, ? Flagg, Linwood Wallace. Front row: Anita Gould, Minot Flagg, ? Gould, David Mills, Larraine Flagg, 1937
Dead River School 1939 - 1942
	Dead River School - Recess		End of School Picnic, Scrampus Falls 1939: Left to right - Helen Donahue, Gladys Bean, and Anna Bean.
	Grade 1-4, 1939: Left - right. Back row Christine Donahue, Gladys Bean, Betty Safford, and David Wing. Front row Ruth Donahue, Anna Bean, and Patty Withom		Bringing in the Christmas tree Dec. 1939: Ms. Savage told the boys, George and Leon to handle the axes. The boys left Betty and Gladys to lug the tree.
	Spring, 1940: Left - right. Helen Donahue, Gladys Bean, and Anna Bean.		School Fair – 1940. Left to right. Vernon Bean, Gladys Bean, David Wing, Betty Safford, and William Wing
	1942 Back row – L to R Vernon Bean, Gladys Bean, Olive Donahue, Maurice Wing, Christine Donahue. Middle row – L to R Shirley Morris, Judy Rogers, Ruth Donahue, and Nancy Rogers		Spring, 1942 – left to right, Back row Nancy Rogers and Ruth Donahue. Front row Shirley Morris and Judy Rogers
	1942: He stood there the whole recess trying to figure how mud could cause so much suction! Always a great ponderer. Ruth Donahue and Maurice Wing