The new window displays at the Oneida Pioneer Museum commemorate the opening of the new Malad Elementary School by displaying items that came from the old school and even some from the old, old school. 

“Dick, Jane, and Sally” and other books used by children to learn to read are displayed on vintage desks that connected. A large school bell called children in from recess before electric bell systems. A chalk board shows how teachers taught and students learned before the computer age. Wall maps and a world globe demonstrate the countries of the 1950s. Visitors will be able to go back in time when they view these and other school artifacts in the window displays.

The Museum Window Display Committee members, including Dotty Evanson, Janice Vaughan, and Sharon Harris, used Museum artifacts to organize the window display. Dotty and Janice brought their memories as 1950s-era students of the old elementary school to the window, and Sharon added her memories of having worked as a librarian at a well-worn school in Caldwell. The window displays demonstrate how much schools have changed in the last 70+ years.

The Museum plans to eventually have a room on the second floor organized as a vintage schoolroom so that visitors can learn about or reminisce about schools of the past.