A reader informed me that my school timeline page had the merger of Meservey-Thornton off by a year. I double-checked through the Mason City Globe Gazette archives, and the reader was right. M-T formed in 1962.
The thing is, the website for West Fork, the descendant of SCMT and Rockwell-Swaledale, also has the incorrect year, and doesn’t have any year for R-S. I hope, in a roundabout way, that wasn’t my fault.
R-S formed in 1959, based on articles also from the MCGG.