Bloomfield, NBC: The Class of '63

For the Sept. 21 edition of the Herald, Linda Williams wrote an excellent overview of the formation of the Northern Bedford County School District. If I may, I’d like to add a few words about the place that the Bloomfield school and the class of 1963 occupied in that process. I have often stated that I grew up in the northern suburbs of Flitch, which, technically, is the southern portion of Bloomfield Township. The Bloomfield school, on a rise just south of Bakers Summit, had three classrooms with the potential for four. There were three teachers for grades one through eight. Why eight? I don’...