As Updated by Mrs. Roy Todd (Chloris) October, 1980        When you enter your cheery, pleasant classrooms, do you every wonder about the beginning of Woodland Sunday School?                Well, it started in 1896 in the one-room church on the corner of Balch and Crosby Streets, with A. S. Miller as superintendent. What confusion there must have been with several classes of different age groups all being taught at the same time.'                In 1902, Mrs. H. C. Davis wrote, "The Sunday School has been favored by having two consecrated Christian superintendents -- Mr. A. S. Miller and the present one, Mr. Salem Kile. There are 19 earnest teachers and officers constantly trying to do something for its benefit. We are safe to say no Sunday School is better supplied with literature and lesson helps, while good music is also prominent. But, we have our trials --a week ago last Sunday, one of our teachers had given her best efforts to her class and, in closing, asked if any boy or girl had a question to ask, when up went a chubby hand -- "Please, can you tell me where to get a drink?". Alas, for the lack of modern improvements. Again, you will see two on a chair or several sitting on a step and you can readily see why the Sunday School needs new quarters. This school has pledged one thousand dollars toward the new church." By the "new church", she meant the red brick structure at Balch and Crosby which is now being used by another religious group.                A Sunday School at Litchfield Junior High School was organized in 1960 during the pastorate of Rev. dare Davis, with William Fesler in charge. Then, in 1964, this group and the one in the church became one        Sunday School again when we moved into our present building on North Hawkins Avenue.                On June 4, 1967 at the installation of Church School officers, Mr. Jack Ambrose and his wife Maude were given special honor and a gift for their thirty years of service with the Sunday School.                The superintendents during all these years were competent and devoted to their task: A. S. Miller, Salem Kile, D. B. Clements, E. L. Bechtel, R. D. Brown, C. E. Way, H. M. Horst, R. D. Turner, L. 0. Weiss,        J.        M. South, William Poling, E. K. Bean, and George Arnold.                Elsewhere on West Hill, another group of Christian workers were busy as bees, starting the Madison Avenue Evangelical Church. The first session of the Sunday School was held June 3, 1917, with an attendance of twenty-eight.                During the summer and autumn of 1917, while the basement unit of the church was being completed, the Sunday School and church services were held in the incomplete parsonage at the corner of Madison and Shellhorn Streets.                On January 27, 1918 the church basement was finished and thereafter used for all services until October 31, 1920 when the sanctuary was completed.                Many dedicated men served as superintendents of the Sunday School. They were Lee J. Myers, C. M. Strickland, A. A. Smith, C. M. Trussell, J. R. Wilkerson, H. G. Croft, J. T. Kimberly, Paul Kimberly, and Paul Fulmer.                Then, Madison Avenue Evangelical Church and Woodland Methodist Church became Woodland United Methodist Church, and we had one large Sunday School.                Since then, the Church School superintendents have been Clancy Ferguson, Jack Ambrose, Florence Wavle, Jane Rusk, Nancy Anhorn, and Mildred Eaker.                In September, 1978 Mr. Ambrose passed away suddenly in a place he had loved and worked for so many years--the Sunday School. Audio-Visual equipment was purchased in his memory.                Many people are involved in the Sunday School today; in fact, sixty-two persons were involved in Woodland's 1979-1980 Sunday School year. They were (a) administrators: Mildred Eaker, Barry Perkins, Leo Hurst, Bonnie and Vito Guarneri, Rick Petersen, George Arnold, Harold Frease, Betty Scott, Geneva Harman, Linda MacDonald, Ruth Friend and Carol Pheips; and (b) teachers: Nursery - Marcia Hickman, Annie Usher, Diana Webb, Wilma Ferguson, Pat Scharra; Youth - Patsie Lewis, Paul and Lorei vanLoenen, Mary and Bruce Scott, Kathy and Tom Koch; Adults - David Youngs, George Mayer, Clancy Ferguson, Elaine McIntyre, Jane Rusk, Ellie Dameron, Tim McArthy; Children - Bonnie Guarneri, Merrily Lindquist, Beverly Thurman, Jan Butler, Mary Focht, Linda Henthorne, Jane Kalstrom, Shirley Minich, Mary Carpenter, Delight Nold, Flo Wavie, Nancy Anhorn, Cheryl Tannert, Linda Morrison, Kathie Higham, Laurie Maconachy; Summer child care - Barbara Barnett, Bonnie Frye, Judy Wilson, Jacquie Rudgers, Lyn Malcolm, Sandra Ellis; Vacation Church School - Carol Phelps, director, Becky Cairns, Jane Delcamp, Sally Kenner, Brenda Hanson, Carol Ray, Janice Scharra, Brenda Teter, Tina Teter, Beverly White.                On Sunday, September 28, 1980 the 200th Anniversary of the Sunday School was celebrated, with Jane Rusk as chairman of the planning committee. Our minister, Dr. Richard W. Pettit, invited former minister Harold T. Milford (1960-1969) to preach the morning message.                After the service a dinner was served by the United Methodist Women, and past and present Sunday School teachers and workers were recognized by David Youngs, Mildred Winters, and Rev. Milford. The above Sunday School history was presented for all to read.                Time marches on, and we with it.'                CHLORIS TODD, Historian 1971-1981