“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL BUILDING IN CURRIE was sold in the summer of this year. The Schmitz Grain Co. bought the building for $2,000, it was announced in the parish’s Sunday bulletin.
The brick school building originally served as a junior and senior high school operated by the IHM parish. Grades 1-6 attended classes in an older structure built in 1907, between the new school and the IHM church.
The last senior class to be graduated from IHM was in 1969.
After the discontinuance of the junior and senior high program in 1969, the elementary grades 1-6 moved into the 1954 building.
Elementary classes were held in the newer IHM school building until 1972. Since then the school has been used only occasionally for special events, Sunday school and youth instruction. The last event to be held there occurred in conjunction with the IHM annual fall dinner. Schmitz says he has made no definite plans for the building. One possibility, he said, was to use it for storage. Although the building appears in good shape from the outside, it is reported to need some roof repairs. Another big factor was also reported that the building was also extremely difficult to heat in the winter.
• Last week’s answer: Rignell Hardware officially opened their brand-new building for business in 1956.
