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Bovey, Goldie McNett, May Driscoll, May Schelling, Kittie Powell, Myrtle Royer, Rhoda Thomas; fourth row, Ray McClure, Harry Baker, Sam French, Went Sprecher, Ed Jimmerson, John Walker, Lester Steck; Standing, Elmer Shank, Floyd Smith, Tom Newcomer, Roy Brayton, Robert McCoy.
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they had been arranged, the best scholar was allowed to go into the room and take his choice; after his return, the second best took his turn, and so on until the least deserving carried away the leavings. William Stewart remem- bered that she was very severe in her methods of punishment, but failed to mention, however, if it was because he was particularly mischievous or not, that his memory was so keen on that point. One of her ways of bringing culprits to justice was to come up be- hind the victim and getting him by the forelock pull him upon his tip-toes until he expected his scalp to part with his cranium. Another method, for many years a favorite among "schoolmarms," was to get a grip on that convenient handle, the ear, and twist it until the offender was glad to choose between losing his ear or coming to time. The dunce cap also came into frequent use. Nevertheless she was a good teacher and taught many a "young idea how to
shoot." Her school continued in the old house until after the war, and was dis- continued probably in 1866 or 1867. Mrs. Crofts left the village about that time with her son, Lee Crofts, and went west.
Before tracing the village schools fur- ther, it would be well to make mention of the old schoolhouse built by Jacob Rice, father of Dr. Isaac Rice. It was simply a roughly-constructed log-house, situated north of town, and its history dates back almost to the beginning of the Pine Creek Grammar School. Isaac Rice, then a youth of eighteen years, was one of the first teachers in the school. Reuben Marshall was a pupil at this institution of learning, and re- membered the house to have been an exceedingly rough structure. It was built in the hollow north of the Jacob Rice residence and east of the cemetery. One winter there was considerable trou- ble between the teacher and the pupils, and finally the large boys tore the old
THIS SCHOOL PICTURE, taken in 1894, includes faces of quite a few pupils who are still living in the community; most of them have moved elsewhere and a few have died. Those in the picture are, bottom row, left to right: Martha McClure, Alice Moore, Grace Withers, Carrie Plate, Gladys McCosh, Laura Beard, Bessie McNett; 2nd row, Mildred Strock, Della Baker, Allie Williams, Lulu Lookabaugh, Ruby Buser, Ollie McCoy, Anna Myers, Mabel Holsinger, Elva Lizer, Mignon Whistler; 3d row, Mrs. Florence Stephens (teacher), Grace Price, Maud Zellers, Vernie Wolf, May Watkins, Pearl Hershey, Ada Withers, Elsie Griswold, Lela Blake, Mina Middour, Edith Sprech- er; 4th row, Blair McCosh, Harry Eshelman, Guy Smith, Ernest Brayton, Roy Cheney, Guy Blake, Roy Palmer, Carl Stutsman, George Funk; top row, Earl Clevidence, Lee Smith, Charlie Peacock, Ray Allen, Ernest Bruner, Wilbur Mumma.
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THIS PICTURE was taken in 1894 and represents two classes taught by Miss Antoinette Schryock. Those in the picture are as follows: Bottom row, left to right, Lottie Myers (above), Anna Eshelman, Vernie Lookabaugh, Maude Rowe, Edna Newcomer, Pearl Rank, Rosa Lohafer, Minnie Longman, Rhoda Thomas, Vernie Bovey, Grace Mumma, May Driscoll, Ada Allen, Grace Palmer, Kittie Powell; second row, Miss Schryock (teacher),
Emma Whistler, Lizzie Driscoll, Grace Granger, Myrtle Miller, Lulu Avey, May Schelling, Mary Wolf; third row, Floyd Knodle, Wm. Fouke, Harry Kable, Roy Jackson, Robert Newcomer, Riner Clark, Robert Buser, Chas. Raney, Harvey Kable, Reuben Mar- shall; top row, Robert McCoy, Harry Baker, Philip Windle, Went Sprecher, Ed. Jimmerson, Wm. Poole, Sam French, Chas. Hol- singer. Melvin Householder, Burton Strock, Sam Whistler.
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building down, piled the logs on a heap, and burned them. Mr. Marshall remem- bered that one day several dogs ran a deer out of the woods near the school- house, and there being a crust on the snow which the animal's sharp hoofs penetrated, the boys easily headed it upon an expanse of snow and knocked it on the head with an axe. The inci- dent was quite thrilling. Among the teachers in this school were Joshua and Isaac Rice, John A. Wagner, Alfred Brown, John W. Ritz, John O'Connor, Julia Holcombe, Charles F. Lynn, and Robert Deppenham.
In the year 1868, the present large stone schoolhouse, located on block 5 of the Botanical Addition, was com- pleted at a cost of $10,000. At first there were but four rooms in the building and only three of these were used, there being but three teachers and three de- partments. Miss Frances Hoverland (Mrs. Crawford) who had been princi- pal in the old building was again elected and served in that capacity from 1868 to 1872-the first four years that the new building was in use. Miss Florence Hoverland taught during the first two years, until the time of her marriage to Dr. B. G. Stephens. The other teachers during these four years were Cornelia A. Sterns, May Quigley and Olive Antis- del. Lottie Rohrer (Mrs. W. A. New- comer) was an advanced student and heard a number of classes for the prin- cipal.
Prof. Joseph M. Piper succeeded Miss Hoverland and remained principal four years. The teachers during these four years, 1872 to 1876, as nearly as can be determined, were as follows: Frankie Kosier, Ella Fisher, Miss Eichholts, John P. Hand (later a supreme court judge of Illinois), Helen A. Knight, John Ham- mond, Lottie Waggoner (daughter of Prof. Joseph Waggoner, first principal of Rock River Seminary), and Addie McKean.
About this time a fourth department was added and the number of teachers raised to four. Horace G. Kauffman was elected principal in the fall of 1876, with Holly C. Clark in the grammar de- partment; Ella Fisher, intermediate; and Lottie Waggoner, primary.
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class received their diplomas in the spring of 1878, at the close of Mr. Kauff- man's second year. Before that time the scholars attended only until some- thing turned up for them to do, and they left whenever they pleased, without completing any prescribed course of study. It was during this year that the first course of study was outlined and printed in pamphlet form.
The roster of teachers and graduates from 1877 to the present time is as fol- lows:
1877-1878-H. G. Kauffman (principal), H. C. Clark, Mrs. Rebecca Kauffman, Lot- tie Waggoner. Graduates: Susie McCosh, (Mrs. C. H. Sharer), Eva Davis, Fred Knodle, Harry Little, Charles Davis.
1878-1879-H. G. Kauffman (principal), H. C. Clark, Mrs. Kauffman, Helen A. Knight. Graduates: Laura Hedges (Mrs. Swift), Lillie Farwell (Mrs. Harry Cush- ing), Mary Weller (Mrs. George Shry- ock), Clara Clevidence (Mrs. Ira Wing- ert), Clara Noel, Alfonzo Newcomer.
1879-1880-Miss Virginia Brown (princi- pal), Mrs. Carey, (name of intermediate teacher not obtainable), Francis E. Craw- ford. Graduates: Martin Rohrer Jr., Min- nie Rohrer, Lillie Myers, Jessie Knodle, Georgie Bixler, Jennie Weller (Mrs. Hana- walt), Anna Thomas, Viola Greger.
1880-1881-Miss Virginia Brown (prin- cipal), Mrs. Carey, Hattie Barlow, Fran- ces E. Crawford. About this time the higher rooms of the school began to enter into a state of disorder, which gradually became worse through the two succeeding years and culminated in the almost com- plete disorganization of the highest room under the principalship of Prof. Burbank, mention of which is made later. It ap- pears that Miss Brown made no attempt to graduate a class in the second year of her principalship, Those who were in the highest class and would have gradu- ated at the end of the year were U. C. Nye, Verne Clevidence Phelps, Alice Lookabaugh Fager, Joshur Ohr, Nettie Long, Mollie Skinner, Arthur Nalley, and probably several others.
1881-1882-B. Earl Berry (principal), Mrs. Berry, Florence E. Stephens, Fran- ces E. Crawford. As principal, Prof. Berry did not prove to be a much better disciplinarian than Miss Brown, and the school did not prosper. There was no graduating class at the end of this year. Among those who were in attendance in the advance class were Ida Funk Fitz, Isabel Funk Fitz, Hattie Davis, Mabel Holsinger, Lucia McCosh, Flora Thomas Shellenberger, Parnell Newcomer, Myrtle Rine Miller, Frank Palmer, Ralph Trine, William Startzman, Howard Long and Cyrus Newcomer.
1882-1883-The teaching force remained the same as the year previous, except that
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Clara Middlekauff succeeded Mrs. Berry in the grammar department. In Prof. Berry's room the order became worse and the attendance smaller, so much so that at the end of the year there was again no pretense toward the graduation of the advance class, which consisted partly of the class of the preceding year.
1883-1884-During the four years of Miss Brown's and Prof. Berry's principal- ship, the disorder and confusion of the advance rooms became so flagrant that the attention of the school board was finally drawn to the matter, and they resolved to hire a principal who could restrain the mischievous natures of the pupils and again bring the work up to a standard of excellence. Prof. Charles Burbank, of Byron, was the man engaged, but the board erred in their selection, as the sequel will show. With the inten- tion of quelling the turbulent spirits by ruling with an iron hand, Prof. Burbank entered the schoolroom the first morning and injudiciously informed the pupils who had assembled that he "could lick the whole school with one hand tied be- hind his back," and that dire conse- quences would follow any attempt to dis- order or insubordination. These tactics, as many will remember, only aroused the ire of the boys, and the order, or rather disorder, was much worse than previous- ly. The first serious trouble arose one day when Prof. Burbank left his room and went into the Grammar room, to settle several youngsters for his wife, who had charge there. He had not proceeded far when the boys made a rush for him, seized him on all sides and gave him an old-fashioned drubbing. While this was in progress, John Seibert ran out into the front hall, and, opening the door of the high school, shouted: "Come on, boys, we've got him!" which added to the ex- citement. Finally, the members of the school board arrived and settled the dis- turbance. A few days later the pupils of the professor's own room became incensed at some inconsistency on his part, and a "free-for-all" again precipitated. Heavy double slates, erasers, books, and all manner of missiles were hurled at the unfortunate pedagogue. Most of the boys were aggressive, but a few of the older ones, Z. O. Doward principally, tried to keep the bellicose faction from injuring the professor. In the scuffle the organ was thrown from the platform and badly damaged. The besieged instructor finally escaped to his desk and hastily penned a note to the directors and dis- patched one of the more timid scholars with it. It is remembered that after the missive had been written, upon the bot- tom of the sheet, he stamped a large blotch of blood from a deep cut in his hand, caused by a slate, to impress the directors with the urgency of the case. Trouble frequently arose after this, but Prof. Burbank worried through the re- mainder of the year. It is said that to insure his safety the school board ac-
companied him to the depot when he left town. The boys and girls who attended that year are often heard talking over those "stirring times." At the end of the year no graduating exercises were held, but diplomas were granted to Carrie Well- ler, May McCoy and Maude Newcomer.
1884-1885-To build up the school after the exciting times of the year previous, the board hired Horace G. Kauffman, who had proved a good disciplinarian during his former term of service. During the year the primary department, which in- cluded about one hundred pupils, was divided into two sections,-the First Pri- mary and the Second Primary, Frances E. Crawford being engaged to teach the latter, and Lillie Farwell the former. The other teachers were Mrs. Kauffman and Florence E. Stephens. The graduates were H. E. Newcomer, Emily Newcomer (Mrs. J. L. Rice), Fannie Stephens and Grace McCoy (Mrs. Frank Coffman).
1885-1886-Mr. Kauffman was re-engaged as principal, but being in poor health, went east and left the work in the hands of Mrs. Kauffman. The other teachers were Karen Hollinger, assistant principal; Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Crawford, and Miss Farwell. Class of 1886: Daisy Kemp, Mat- tie Newcomer, Minnie Stouffer, Lillian Hess, Dollie Stephens, Bert Clevidence, Eugene Thomas.
1886-1887-During the summer of 1886, the addition on the west side of the build- ing was made, to be used as a recitation room. Later, the primary department was moved into this addition and the prin- cipal's room divided into two parts. The teachers were H. G. Kauffman, Mrs. Re- becca Kauffman, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Crawford and Miss Farwell. Class of 1887: Claude Householder and Daniel Brogu- nier.
1887-1888-Teachers, same as preceding year, except that Miss Elsie West took Miss Farwell's place. Mrs. Kauffman re- signed the assistant principalship at the end of the winter term, and Emery I. Neff completed the year in her place. Class of 1888: Nettie Kinsey, Ada Mumma, Oliver Sprecher.
1888-1889-Teachers engaged, same as preceding year. Mr. Kauffman was again compelled to leave the school on account of ill-health, and with the consent of the board left the principalship in the hands of Alfonzo G. Newcomer, who had just graduated from Cornell University. Mr. Newcomer proved to be a very able in- structor. His graduating class consisted of Minnie Kable, Ida Castle, Ollie Smith and Morris Newcomer.
1889-1890-A new principal was secured in the person of T. E. DeButts. The other teachers were Alice J. Boone, Mrs. Ste- phens, Mrs. Crawford, Fannie Stephens. Class of 1890: Solomon Avey, Allie Kable, Minerva Eversole, Edward C. Thomas.
1890-1891-Teachers, same as preceding year. Class of 1891: Joseph Granger, Bert Thomas, Benton Kinsey, Kittie Sprecher.
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(12) Florine Scott, (13) Anna Myers, (14) Lizzie Driscoll, (15) Lulu Lookabaugh, (16) Emma Whistler, (17) Anna Spielman, (18) Bessie McNett, (19) Gladys McCosh, (20) Ernest Brayton,
(21) Chas. Peacock, (22) Ray Allen, (23) Morris Wolfe, (24) Edith Sprecher, (25) Elsie Griswold, (26) Alice Knodle, (27)
Guy Smith, (28) George Funk, (29) Harry Eshelman, (30) Wil- bur Mumma, (31) Carl Stutsman, (32) Leighton McCosh, (33)
Blair McCosh, (34) Pearl Hershey,
(35) Laura Beard, (36) Mina Middour, (37) Mildred Strock, (38) Martha McClure.
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1891-1892-Prof. DeButts remained only two years and he was succeeded by C. W. Egner. The other teachers were An- toinette Shryock, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Crawford, Fannie Stephens. Class of 1892: Anita Holsinger, Lulu Kable, Pearl Wil- liams, Lulu Koontz, Mae Ankney, William Myers, George Toms, Hugh Stephens, Bessie Griswold, Benj. Price, Grace Han- stine.
1892-1893-Teachers, same as preceding year. Class of 1893: George Schelling, Pearl Buser, Emma Plate.
1893-1894-Teachers of previous year again hired. Class of 1894: Louis Brayton, Maude Thomas, Earl Householder, Lucy Buck.
1894-1895-E. E. Winders succeeded Prof. Egner in 1894 and the teachers under him were Antoinette Shryock, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Crawford, Fannie Stephens. Class of 1895: Lee Stonebraker, Anna Bollinger, Agnes McDannel.
1895-1896-E. E. Winders (principal), Lydia Pierce, Ella Rohrer, Mrs. Crawford, Mary McClure. Class of 1896: Burton Strock, Harvey Kable, Harry Kable, May Driscoll, Maude Rowe, Reuben Marshall, Riner Clark, Edward Jimmerson, Roy Brayton.
PROF. ELBERT E. WINDERS was prin- cipal of the Mount Morris Public School from 1894 to 1897. He was born in Mount Morris, April 14, 1861, and died Nov. 2, 1897, aged 36 years. He was educated in the Mount Morris Public School and Rock River Seminary. He married Ella Miller, April 10, 1895. He was an accomplished musician, and the author of this book can testify as to his ability as a teacher, being a graduate under him in 1896.
SYLVESTER A. LONG was principal of Mount Morris public schools for two years from 1898 to 1900. He was a graduate of Mount Morris College and later became a brilliant lecturer with a national reputa- tion. He married Etta Moore, a Mount Morris girl, and they are now living at Wichita, Kans.
1896-1897-E. E. Winders (principal), Mary McClure, Lillian Hess, Mrs. Craw- ford, Ella Rohrer. Class of 1897: Ada Allen, Gertrude Eshelman, Amanda Lutz, William Pool, Melvin Householder, Rob- ert Newcomer, Roy Jackson, Bessie Mar- shall, Minnie Longman.
1897-1898-Prof. Winders was compelled to resign on account of ill health and he was succeeded in 1897 by A. E. Elmore, who was assisted by Mary McClure, Lil- lian Hess, Mrs. Crawford, Ella Rohrer. Class of '98, Mary Nazarene, Chas. Pea- cock, Martha McClure, Allie Williams, Earl Clevidence, Pearl Rank, Lura Neff.
1898-1899-Prof. Elmore stayed only one year and in 1898 the board secured the services of S. A. Long, a brilliant gradu- ate of Mount Morris College. His assist- ants were Mary McClure, Lillian Hess, Mrs. Crawford, Lulu Kable. During the latter part of the year, at the suggestion of the energetic principal, Prof. Long, the board lengthened the course of study a year, making three years of high school work. Owing to this fact there was no graduating class. A fine laboratory was added to the school during the year, Prof. Long soliciting the money for the same.
1899-1900-S. A. Long (principal), Mary McClure, Lillian Hess, Mrs. Crawford, Lulu Kable, Ella Rohrer. Class of 1900: Vernon Rees, Ray Allen, Mina Middour, Bessie McNett, Earl Thomas, Florine Scott. In June the course of study was revised according to the action of the board the year previous, and published in pamphlet form.
1900-1901-Prof. Long was succeeded in the fall of 1900 by Prof. Geo. A. Jacobs. The other teachers were Ione Billig, Lillian
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PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS OF 1896: (1) Merritt Miller, (2) Miss Ella Rohrer, teacher, (3) Bertha Miller, (4) Albert Brubaker,
(5) Elmer Brubaker, (6) Myrtle Whistler, (7) Mignon Whistler,
(8) Mabel Holsinger, (9) Jesse Allen, (10) Harry Sprecher, (11)
Howard Sprecher, (12) Weadie Peacock, (13) Jesse McCoy, (14) Clarence Hanstine, (15) Pearl Lohafer, (16) Nellie Wolfe, (17) Grace Wolfe, (18) Elva Lizer, (19) Roy Cowan, (20) Charlie
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Lookabaugh, (21) Philo Corning, (22) Ed. Rowe, (24) Katie Driscoll, (25) Florence Miller, (26) Bertha McNett, (27) Edith Miles, (28) Edith Miller, (29) Mary Wolfe, (30) Maude Miller, (31) Carl Stutsman, (32) Roy Tovelle, (33) Harry Rowe, (34) Jesse Marshall, (35) Urilla Baker, (36) Edith Merryman, (37) Jelie McCoy, (38) Effie Crump, (39) Cora Brubaker.
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Hess, Mrs. Frances E. Crawford, Lulu Ka- ble, Jennie Harley. Graduates: Jelis Mc- Coy, Ida Nazarene, Harry Rowe.
1901-1902-Geo. A. Jacobs (principal), Frank Scott, Frances E. Crawford, Lillian Hess, Lulu Kable, Jennie Harley. Grad- uates: Bertha McNett, Edith Miles, Edith Miller, Merritt Miller, Edward Rowe, Phoebe Stoner, John Stutesman, Lela Tice, Ada Wolfe.
1902-1903-Geo. A. Jacobs (principal), Mary McClure, Anita Metzgar, Frances E. Crawford, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Har- ley. Graduates: Florence Allen, L. Roy Cheney, Ernest Highbarger, Matilda Leh- ner.
1903-1904-Following the three-year term of Prof. Jacobs, Miss Mary McClure was elected principal, beginning in the fall term of 1903, and continued in this po- sition for eleven years. The other teach- ers were Chas. Holsinger, Lillian Hess, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley, Margaret Proctor. Graduates: Cornelia Crawford, Charles Cushing, Clyde Davis, Merritt Deppen, Harry Emmert, Martha Geiger, Blanche Householder, Glenn Olson, Grace Peacock, Vera Rees, Mary Thomas, Roy Thomas.
1904-1905-Mary McClure (principal), Chas. Holsinger, Elsie Emmert, Lillian Hess, Jennie Harley, Margaret Proctor. Graduates: Katie Driscoll, Anna Miller, Daniel Miller, Ray Palmer, Marcus Slifer, Eva Withers, Pearl Jones, Edward Allen.
1905-1906-Mary McClure (principal),
MARY E. McCLURE was superintendent of the Mount Morris High School for eleven years. She was the daughter of Robert D. and Elizabeth (Allen) McClure and was born Nov. 1, 1874, at Haldane, Ill. She attended the local public schools, Mount Morris College and the University of Wisconsin. She taught in the local high school and served capably as super- intendent from 1903 to 1914.
Chas. Holsinger, Elsie Emmert, Lillian Hess, Jennie Harley, Mollie Dutcher. Graduates: Ira Baldwin, Minnie Barn- hizer, Clyde Holsinger, Lela Keedy, Glad- ys Newcomer, Charles Wentworth Sharer. 1906-1907-Mary McClure, (principal), Chas. Holsinger, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley, Olive Swift, Lillian Hess. Grad- uates: Helen Cushing, Ernest Hanes, Ha- zel Kable, Hazel Kretsinger, Mable Mum- ma, Perley Rees, Max Sharer, Hubert Shaw, Claude Smith, Lura Stine, May Swift, Clifford Windle.
1907-1908-Mary McClure (principal), Chas. Holsinger, Lillian Hess, Bertha Mc- Nett, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley. Gradu- ates: Florence Bopp, Nelson Bruner, Ar- thur Irvin, Mac McCosh, Clifford Miller, June Noble, Wm. Boyd Stouffer, Ruth Wylie.
1908-1909-Mary McClure (principal), Chas. Holsinger, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess. Graduates: Mamie Drummond, Nora Gouker, Frank Hilger, Ray Holsinger, Ma- bel Miller, Elizabeth Sharer, Bessie Whit- man.
1909-1910-Mary McClure (principal), Clyde Bates, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess. Graduates: Florence Miller, Frances Miller, Vinette Mishler, Helen Wylie.
1910-1911-Mary McClure (principal), Clyde Bates, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess. Graduates: Hugh Bonar, Lottie Gigeous, Luetta Hoff- man, Gladys Huff, Ruth Kable, Hubert Knodle, Ruth Lizer, Dorothy Muller, Ce- cile Olson, Ruth Sharer, Murray Welty.
1911-1912-Mary McClure (principal), Clyde Bates, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Harley, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess. Graduates: Gladys Avey, Edith Barnhizer, Marie Keplinger, Mattie Kerns, Madge Tracy.
1912-1913-Mary McClure (principal), Harvey Long, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Har- ley, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess, G. E. Weaver. Graduates: Lloyd Diehl, Clara Hoffman, Rosalie King, Marion McCosh, Harvey Miller, Wilbur Miller, Eva New- comer, Jesse Smith, Lucile Wine.
1913-1914-Mary McClure (principal). Harvey Long, Elsie Emmert, Jennie Har- ley, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess. Gradu- ates: Orville Diehl, Vera Kessler, Alice Mortimore, Maude Smith, Carrie Stevens, Thayer Stine (also graduated from four- year course in 1916), Mary Stouffer.
1914-1915-Prof. A. J. Brumbaugh was elected superintendent to take the place of Miss McClure and the Board of Educa- tion decided to add another year to the school. The other teachers were Harvey Long, Elsie Emmert, Gerda Sederholm, Bertha McNett, Lillian Hess and G. E. Weaver. There was no regular graduating class but John Jacobs, Clifford Paul and Mabel Stouffer were given three-year di- plomas.
1915-1916-Prof. Ira R. Hendrickson, for many years a teacher at Mount Morris College, was selected to head the faculty,
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THIS PICTURE was taken in 1896 and represents the 9th and 10th grades, corresponding to the present first and second years of high school. Those in the picture are, front row, left to right, Edward Jimmerson, Burton Strock, Harvey Kable, Riner Clark; second row, Roy Jackson, Melvin Householder, Harry Kable, May Dris-
coll, Maude Rowe, Lulu Avey, Kittie Powell, Myrtle Miller; back row, Wm. Fouke, Robert Newcomer, Roy Brayton, Reuben Mar- shall, Ada Allen, Gertrude Eshelman, Bessie Marshall, Minnie Longman; standing, E. E. Winders, principal.
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