99 Years Ago: 5000 Marin School Children & Teachers visit the Panama Pacific International Exposition
by Laurie Thompson
Marin Journal: September 9, 1915:
Joy Day for Kids at Exposition: Marin School Children Dance and Sing as Guests of Expo Board
It will be many moons before the school children of Marin county have as good a time as they had last Friday.
They danced, they sang, they ate and drank and they reveled in the attractions of the Panama Pacific Exposition…. Every school in the county furnished its quota of happy youngsters. The special boats to the Exposition grounds provided by the Northwestern Pacific were packed with fully five thousands pupils, parents and teachers….
First there was a big parade, headed by the Arizona First Infantry band and the Boy’s Band of St. Vincents Orphanage….. Little Claire Prescott of San Rafael gave President Moore a cluster of asters grown in Marin county…. Forty little girls from the San Anselmo school under the direction of Mrs. Irene C. Cook rendered a Spanish dance and forty more boys and girls from the same school sang in chorus…. The Retail Grocers’ Association…took the youngsters on a pleasure jaunt over the grounds, fed them at the various places in the Palace of Food Products and let them go after giving each boy and girl ten cents…. Hundreds of them were taken down through the Zone and treated to a sight of the strange things there on exhibition.
It was a day that will never be forgotten by the Marin county school children and they will ever remember with gratitude the names of Commissioners Hettrich and Dolliver, who made the event possible…..
Originally published at https://annetkent.kontribune.com.
