Family and friends of Rose Varney are shown as the group celebrated the dedication of the Rose Varney Multipurpose Room.
It’s official. The multipurpose space at Woodland Elementary School has a new name, and a deeply meaningful one at that.
Community members, Mariposa County Unified School District staff, along with friends and family of Rose Varney, gathered for the dedication of the Rose Varney Multipurpose Room at Woodland Elementary School on May 18.
Over the past year, the Mariposa County Unified School District has been working to rename several of its facilities in honor of those who have dedicated so much of their lives to the district and children in the community.
Varney passed away in 2014 but her memory lives on.
In her obituary, published in June of 2014 in the Mariposa Gazette, her love and dedication to teaching is evident.
Varney’s journey with MCUSD began shortly after moving to Mariposa around 1946 when “she became the music supervisor for the district,” it reads.
“After her youngest daughter, Mary Lou, started school, Rose went back to teaching. She was an extremely dedicated and respected elementary school teacher for many years at Mariposa and Woodland elementary schools. After a first retirement, her teaching career continued as a substitute teacher for all grades. She found a new love teaching at the high school level — where she wasn’t known as Mrs. Varney, but as “Grandma,” and often had her own grandchildren in her classes. Her dedication never wavered as she continued substitute teaching until she turned 80 years old — and taught twice that week, in fact.”
Rose Varney’s daughters, Kaye Myers, Lulu Morehouse, Colleen Varney-McClean and Josie Martin are pictured as the new sign is revealed for the Rose Varney Multipurpose Room at Woodland Elementary. Rose also had a son, Gordie, who has passed away. Submitted photos
There are currently two other buildings to be dedicated this year.
The Judy Eppler Alternative Education Center dedication will take place on Tuesday, June 16, at 10 a.m. at the Alternative Education Campus located at 5171 Silva Road in Mariposa.
Lastly, the new building on the lower campus at Mariposa County High School has been renamed LaNotte-Hayes Hall for the Humanities.
The dedication of the LaNotte-Hayes Hall for the Humanities at MCHS has not been finalized but will likely take place in the upcoming months.
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