Second child and eldest daughter of Melvin and Nellie Whitehouse Rose,
     Hazel Naurine was born March 4, 1892, near Beloit, Kansas.
       Happy childhood memories of the family farm include egg-enriched mud
     pies, watching father quarry stone, and riding in a fringe-topped horse
     drawn carriage.
       April, 1900, the family auctioned their land and home, fitted a covered
     wagon, and undertook a several-days journey to Woods County, Oklahoma, to
     visit maternal grandparents and relatives. This venture was intended only
     as a vacation; by Fall the Rose family was again in the Peloit-Plainville
     community.
       However, in 1908 an epidemic of hog cholera forced Mr. Rose to destroy
     his swine herd, and the family made a permanent move to Woods County.
       Naurine, a high school sophomore, did not continue her schooling - Alva
     was fifteen miles distant and seemed to strange. The younger children,
     Etta, and Harry, attended a rural school; Gladys was not yet school age.
     The oldest child, Forrest, had died in 1904 of measles complications. 
     Naurine did, however, at the insistence of a cousin, take a teacher's
     examination, pass, and receive her certificate.
       September, 1909, seventeen years old, Naurine began her first teaching
     term - first of fifty. The salary at Green Valley District, Woods County,
     was $45 a month. Her room and board was $8 a month, sharing a bedroom
     with two daughters of the family. Forty-two students were enrolled, grades 
     1-8. Class periods were restricted to about ten minutes per grade subject,
     but instruction was of sufficient caliber to enable both eight graders to
     pass the county examination at the close of term.
       Naurine taught six terms in Oklahoma rural schools. She completed high
     school through special examinations and began working for college credits.
       In 1915 Naurine received a Kansas teacher's certificate and taught that
     Fall at Hardtner. A second term followed; then terms at Eldred (rural
     school); Comanche County and Wilmore Grade Schools; Cawker City; returning
     to Hardtner in 1926.
       During those eleven years, Naurine made two attempts to change her field
     of work, enrolling at Salt City Business College, Hutchinson. Both attempts
     were short lived, as she was easily persuaded to return to the teaching
     profession when positions were vacated - one by a man who sold a load of
     stolen wheat; the other by a teacher who preferred marriage.
       Contracts were very restrictive in the early years. Many forbade marrying
     during the term; some included a trial period, after which the teacher could
     remain if the work was satisfactory; dances were often forbidden; gallivanting
     was discouraged, with the stipulation teachers remain in town three of four 
     weekends; and teaching a Sunday School class was understood, if not written
     out.
       The illness of Naurine's father precipitated her return to the Hardtner
     system, enabling her to live with and care for her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
     Rose moved into Hardtner in 1928; he died in 1930, she in 1942.
       Miss Rose retired from her profession May, 1960. Thirty-seven of her
     fifty teaching years were at Hardtner, fifth and sixth grade.
       In addition to teaching, Naurine worked twelve summers for Mrs. Blackstock,
     keeping records on her rented farms. This entailed sitting in the fields,
     tallying the loads of wheat threshed, where sold, and what price.
       She was also active in civic and church work, managed the school exhibit
     at the Barber County Fair, and later organized the art exhibit booth. Surgery
     in 1941 curtailed many of her outside activities.
       In an autobiography prepared for a niece, Naurine wrote, "I have always
     felt repaid a hundred-fold for any help I've given a child to obtain an
     education...what better investment than in the education of deserving youth?"
       Naurine Rose died May 22, 1969.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 392 
     Submitted by: Gladys Rose Wood