Her parents paid tuition of $9 a year for Eula Benson Foley, born in Central Point in 1906, to attend the two-room Howard Grade School in Medford. Benson Foley remembered going to school when the Spanish influenza required students to wear nose masks and the school year was cut short. She had fond memories of Superintendent Ercel Hedrick, who took his post right after leaving the army. Hedrick believed boys needed physical exercise, so he called cadence — “left, [...]
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