It was here at Rose Hill Elementary that Warren Buffett began his public education. Since, at the time, the school instructed students from kindergarten through eighth grade, Rose Hill was his school until his father, Howard, was elected to congress in the election of 1942 and the family moved to to the Washington, DC area.
History & Trivia
Named for the wild roses that covered the local Benson hillsides, the first Rose Hill two room school was opened on October 21, 1907. It was expanded in 1910, 1916, and again 1935. In 1936, the school’s enrollment was 600.
In Buffett, The Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein describes,
“Warren would sit on the fire escape at Rosehill elementary school and flatly tell his chums that he would be rich before he was thirty-five. He never came across as being a braggart, or swell-headed. (In Russell’s homely phrase, “his cap always fit.”) He just had this conviction about himself.” (page 15)
Location
Rose Hill Elementary School
5605 Corby Street
Omaha, NE 68104
(402) 554-6797
Website
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Links
“Our History” Rose Hill Elementary
“Warren Buffet” Wikipedia