OUR HISTORY
Mrs. Sherhouse offers: 
Old Indian trails, not much wider than footpaths, were called runs. There was one run to Kathleen, and it was through a swampy area so it would most always be wet or damp. When you went on that path, you'd always get soaked, so it became known as the 'Soak Run'. Over the years, the community became known as Socrum.
So take your pick, historians.
Mr Mills said the schools in the Socrum and Kathleen area were called strawberry schools.
They operated on a term from June through December which would leave the students available
For the harvesting of strawberries during the winter and spring months. Strawberries were very
Important in this area until the mid-1930s. Strawberry schools were changed to winter schools with a
September through June term at the end of the 1953 school year.
Mrs. Mills and Sherhouse said they expect 400 former Socrum School students and their descendants
To attend the reunion.