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Fourth-grade classes visit Carnegie Historical Museum
Carnegie Historical Museum volunteers Debi Plum, standing in center, and Gloria Countryman, right, facing away from the camera, speak Tuesday to Suzy Nelson's fourth grade class from Pence Elementary School. Nelson said all fourth-grade classes are visiting the museum this week to learn specifically about the era of the 1920s through 1940s. Volunteers who helped guide the students through the museum were the aforementioned Plum and Countryman, plus Stan Plum, Gay Chapman and museum curator Mark Shafer.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SUZY NELSON Having fun with the museum exhibits is Pence Elementary School fourth-grader Zandrik Allison.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LONICA KUFNER Museum volunteer Stan Plum, left, guides the students through an antique pharmacy. The students pictured are, from left, Aaron Carlson, Emma Metcalf, Sofia Eisenbraun and Clayton Schafer.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LONICA KUFNER Carnegie Historical Museum curator Mark Shafer, seated, speaks to a group of fourth-graders from Suzy Nelson's class who visited the museum Tuesday. Nelson was once a student of Shafer's when he taught at Lockridge Elementary School in the 1980s. 'He was my favorite teacher,' Nelson said. 'I was always amazed by his talent. I'm so happy that I can take my own students to be inspired by him. He is one of Fairfield's treasures.'
