Mildred Sigler is eager to get together with childhood friends and reminisce about a school that is no longer, in a district that was consolidated out of existence.
The building that once housed Mifflin School still stands but it's now home to apartments on Township Road 1215 (Ohio Street)
She is hoping an upcoming reunion on Aug. 17 can keep memories of Mifflin School alive. "Anybody who went there, or had family who went there, is welcome," Sigler said.
Reunions for students of the old Mifflin School began in 1966, with the second taking place not for another 20 years and the third in 1990. "We do it every year now, because we are older ... I can't tell you how many people died last year since we met," She said. Among those who are expected to attend include 92 -year old and 98-year old alums.

Built in 1889, the two-story school originally housed grades one through four on the ground floor, and five through eight on the second according to historical records written by former students Cleo Heifner Feazel and Wilma Heifner Pinkley.
"It's still there; north of the center of Mifflin," Sigler said.
According to records, another wooden building was built north of the brick building, with only one room in 1924. This room housed the first four grades, which allowed the high school students to move from a room over a grocery store in downtown Mifflin back into the brick building.
By the end of the 1929-30 school year, the decision was made to end a high school at Mifflin and the students either would go to Hayesville or Ashland to complete their schooling. The little schoolhouse was closed and only the big brick school was used, Feazel and Pinkley wrote.
However, Sigler said in 1939, school districts consolidated, and Mifflin school closed, and students there went to Hayesville, which now is the Hillsdale Elementary School.
Sigler and fellow classmate Jean Byerly-Stauffer recall fond memories of their days at the Mifflin School. "I started following my brother to school so often the teacher said, "you may as well go," said Mildred, who was barely 5 years old when she began attending in the mid-1924.
Once attending the school, Stauffer, 71, and Sigler, 83, not only were privy to an educational experience, but privileges that might sound foreign to a present day child. Heating the school was a big, potbellied stove, Stauffer remembers. A privilege for students was going to the basement to get the coal to heat it, as was going out to the well to bring back water.
Feazel and Pinkley's historical records stated it was great to be sent for water when the weather was nice, but no one wanted the job of going in rainy weather or in the wintertime.
"Everything was a privilege," Stauffer smiled. "No one would think that way now." Another favorite aspect of going to school was on Wednesdays, when the children could go to the store and buy candy. "That was a special treat," she said.
Just as many current students do, exchanging secret notes with one another was not uncommon in the days of the Mifflin school- they just did it a little differently.
Two outhouses served as a vehicle for the students to communicate with each other by leaving notes there, Stauffer explained. "After we had returned to class, friends immediately had to be excused so someone else did not get the notes that were meant for her," Feazel and Pinkley wrote.
In addition to Feazel and Pinkley's accounts, old copies of the school newspaper gave accounts covering a broad number of subjects, from school news, to alumni, to sports.
The town itself also was described in one winter's edition: Mifflin is one of the smallest villages in Ashland County, but it has advantages not found in some larger towns. It has gas which is used in every home for cooking, heating and lighting. The streets are well lighted with electricity and each one has the opportunity to wire his own home. There is a general store, a restaurant, a filling station and two blacksmith shops right near the square, wrote Brant Switzer.
Sigler expects about 70 people to come to next week's reunion, to share stories such as these.