Interesting — to Riverside residents, at least — article on the history of Riverside School

It had 800 students in the baby boom years (!) 453 today; no wonder our band leader Mr. Dyksta gave individual instrument lessons in a converted second floor closet.

Update:

One thing not mentioned in the article is the debt all Riverside residents owe to architects Jay and Carolyn Haverson. Back in — the 80s? I think so — the school was going to build a new addition, and planned to use an off-the shelf “Elementary school addition, option A, B, or C” provided by the state. The Haversons, Riverside residents themselves, were so appalled by the hideous choices that they, at no charge, designed one we could use instead. It wasn’t daring or avant garde, because that wasn’t the point. What they designed was somethingthat blended into the existing building without shrieking “new! New! New!” If you’ve driven by the school any time in the past 40 years and noticed nothing new, then they succeeded; we were all spared an eyesore.