Elisabeth “Lisl” Waechter founded the Pearl Buck School for children with developmental disabilities in 1953 in Creswell. She did this because there was not yet special education offered in public schools.
The school was named after Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author Pearl S. Buck, who had a daughter with a developmental disability.
Six years later, with the help of the Emerald Empire Kiwanis Club and many others, Pearl Buck’s new school building in…
