This Week in Odessa History

There was a time during the school term when Odessa school children, if not their teachers, too, looked forward to three glorious days of fall.

It was the time of the “Teachers’ Institute,” so named no one seems to recall, when pupils got three days off from their studies while their teachers traveled to Spokane to hear lectures, attend forums and exchange views with other teachers.

The teachers probably felt that Institute was worthwhile, but for the children it was pure joy It was respite from their classes, which only a few weeks earlier had taken them away from their summer vacation. It us...