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Contributed by: Eddene Thompson

Riverside First Grade  1949
Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma

 Starting on the back row, left side going to the right; then middle row, left to right; then front row, left to right:

William "Bill" Summers, John Elmsworth, Charles Prophet, Leroy Moreland, Becky Ornder, Eddene Hightower, Vivian Hayward, Ruth Ramsey, Willa Dean, Sammy Parnell, Donnie Randolph, Miss Ona Mae Christian

Carol Sue Bowers, Jimmy Gordon, Johnie Lechlider, Virgil Moreland, Tommy Dresher, Johnie Lee Nair, Carl Wayne Inman, Shirley Wilson

Phyllis Anne Stanley, Wanda Mae Phiefer, Sharon Kay Crisco, Jimmy Peetoom (my present brother-in-law, later known as Jess Peetoom), Kenneth Dale Combs, Donald Ray Johnson, Otis Dewey Stocksdale, Gerald Harper

 
Riverside school was still being used as late as 1989, not sure about how long after that.  The building is still standing and probably being used for storage.  It sits high on the west bank of Bull Creek which has flooded oftentimes since 1943.  Most all of the kids that were in this picture stayed in Vinita schools through graduation in 1961.
Those who stayed through 12th grade, Vinita, were Sharon Kay Chrisco, Tommy Dresher, Carl Wayne Inman (later went by "Wayne"), Sammy Parnell, Donnie Randolph, Willa Dean, Kenneth Combs, Ruth Ramsey, Eddene Hightower.
 
Others that I don't remember being there in our last year, but remained around the Vinita area:
Leroy Moreland, Carol Sue Bowers, Johnnie Lee Nair, Bill Summers, Johnnie Lechlider, Jimmy (Jess) Peetoom, Gerald Harper.