Three Sisters Hold School Attendance Record

Thursday, June 7th 2007, 10:02 am

By: News On 6

Perfection is something many strive for but few achieve. A few months ago Rick Wells reported on a young man who had perfect attendance from kindergarten through sixth grade. Quite an achievement, then he heard about the Cryder sisters of Sperry and Kiefer.

The headline in the Sapulpa Herald from May of 1951 says â€œA Scholastic Record That's Hard To Topâ€, and as far as we know, it's still intact.

Annabell and Oneita Cryder and their older sister Dolores, who now lives in Houston, started going to school and just never stopped. Their parents, particularly their mother, never took no for an answer.

â€œShe was at the school bus when we got on and she was there at the school bus when we got home," said Oneita Cryder.

They had an older neighbor girl who brought home all the illnesses before the Cryder girls started school, so they'd had everything by then.

â€œEvery year we had a certificate for perfect attendance that year," said Oneita Cryder.

Their father worked for Texaco so they moved from Sperry to Kiefer for high school, but the record stayed intact. In fact, if you read through the article you see they also made straight Aâ€™s.

"Who were the valedictorians?" asked News On 6 reporter Rick Wells.
"We all were,â€ said Cryder.
"You all are superstars," said News On 6 reporter Rick Wells.

Not only academic super stars, the Cryder girls all lettered in basketball, learned to play the piano, and they paint.

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