Notes from an Interview with Mike Molberg

Typewritten notes from an interview with Mike Molberg about his time at Eanes School and a list of women who taught there.

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Eanes School by Mike Melberg d Mike was third generation to attend Eanes. His grandfather, E. W. Johnson and great uncles Frank Johnson and Will Johnson attended Eanes. Their teacher was Will Burdett, Eanes first man teacher. Mr. Burdett came to school in a buggy every day and then put a bell on his horse and turned him loose. After sch. he would sent the students to find the horse. Sometimes it would take hours. Almost all the students walked to sch. and many played hooky often. Mr. Harper and Mr. Whitacker taught before 1918. As did Miss Pearl Lee House, Miss Sella Nobel, Miss Sadie Moore and Mrs. Coups. Miss Eula Crow taught from 1918 to 1919. Miss Beatrice Beyers taught from 1918 to 1921. Miss Annie Johnston taught from 1923 through 1924. Mrs. Allie Lee Brown taught from 1926 throught 1929 and Mrs. Leslie Touchstone taught from 1932 to 1933. Miss Eula Crow roomed with the Johnson family. Beatrice Beyer married Travis Johnson. Miss Annie Johnson was a first cousin of the Johnsons Edward, Dudley and Leonard Johnson all attended Eanes. Often the young men took an extra change of clothing to school each day in order to work in the corn fields after school. The field is where Westlake High is presently One of the Johnsons who was small laid a pathway of rocks to the school so that he would not get lost in the tall weeds. In 1905 the closest store was John Wendy's stroe at the corner of South Lamar and Barton Springs Road. It was a long walk or drive in a buggy down unpaved Bee Cave Road, through Charlie Dellana's ranch and across Zilker park and Barton Creek's wooden bridge to get there. In 1914 Mrs. Myrtle Forester and G. T. Rabb taought at Eanes. Most of the students wore coveralls to school. There was a cafeteria built behind the rock sch. It served hot meals every day cooked by the mothers of the students. Every Easter the sch. had a big egg hunt. The Easter baskets were made out of oat meal boxes.Each child brought six colored eggs to sch. Serving as teachers during the 1940s were Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Hampe, and Mrs. Rodes. Rocks used in the rock sch. house were hauled from a quarry on the Marshall ranch with a team of mules. The male citizens of the community built the sch. and church and the women provided food and refreshments. Cecil Johnson was paid $1 a week to brush the cement from the joints between the rocks in the new walls.

Original record: metapth1065519 on the Portal to Texas History.