I came to Medicine Lodge in the fall of 1930 as the new commercial teacher, having
  just graduated from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kans. I.V. Martin was the Superintendant,
  followed by F. Floyd Herr. Myrtle Urton was the school secretary, and Bruce Kindig,
  Ruby Ross, Betty Jones Rickard, Charles Lamkins, and I were those teachers who taught
  the 13 years together. Many others came and went.
     My records show that the members of the School Baord were M.B. Skinner, Dr. Hardin
  Gilbert, Dr. L.L. Osborn, Ray Ives, C.L. Forsyth, Garnett Richardson, Allan Hibbard, 
  C.B. Fullerton, and H.A. Palmer.
     On the first trip to Medicine Lodge from my home in Great Bend. I was told to look
  for a 'chat' covered house. Do you realize how many such houses are in town? I finally
  found "Aunt Em's house". I later stayed with the Abe Harrisons and the Wilsey Stouts.
     I think about many of my students when I read in the newspapers about their
  achievements. It is fun "to be and not to be" recognized on various trips to the
  Indian Peace Treaty  and class reunions. I am happy to say that many of my students
  have become very good friends.
     Fond memories are of all the picnics that Myrtle and I conjured up to get out into
  the Gyp Hills; the various jobs on the Indan "Peach" Treaty; the offices I held in
  B.P.W.C.; all the tickets that Myrtle and I sold and the dirty hands that had to be
  stamped at basketball tournaments; of Al Parr wanting in for half-price and Ned Axtell
  leaving ball games to "see a horse about a man." Bad memories were only of those 
  devilish kids who caused me nightmares. Most delightful person Chet Fullerton's Dad.
     After leaving Medicine Lodge in 1943, I was a receptionist for a doctor in Great
  Bend, and in 1945 I married my long time collegemate and moved to Kansas City,
  Missouri, where Mr. Bloomberg was a Railway Mail Clerk. Upon his retirement, we moved
  to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he passed away in 1962. I came back to Lindsborg
  and busied myself with many things, especially Bethany College, the church, Chamber of 
  Commerce, Hyllningsfest, and many other things. The Bethany College Alumni Council
  presented me the "Alumni Award of Merit" in 1976. I have traveled in the Orient, Holy
  Land, Europe, Scandinavia, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
     They have all been good years because I have tried to make them so.
     
  
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 108 
     Submitted by: Rilla Nelson Bloomberg