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USA > Washington > Yakima County > History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I > Part 54
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Fairview School
L. Maud Bowman, Principal, 5 North Seventh Street. Bessie A. White, 114 North Eighth Street. Rose Rogers, 15 South Sixth Street. Ruth Galbraith, 210 North Third Street. Edna Clyne, 114 South Eighth Street. Mary H. Mason, 313 South Fourth Street. Kathleen Sainsbury, Baker Avenue.
Edna C. Skinner, 5 North Seventh Street.
Anna C. Hahn, 112 North Third Street.
Garfield School
Mary V. Barton, Principal, 1511 West Chestnut Street. Emma B. Horsley, 3 North Naches Avenue. Emma Johnson, 407 North Second Street. Ethel Miller, Yakima, Route 3.
Lincoln School
Fanny A. Smyser, Principal, 329 East A Street. Edna J. Hunt, 316 North Second Avenue. Ernestine Corkery, 401A North Fourth Street. Alice Wilhelm, 610 North Naches Avenue. Grace Hall, 316 North Second Avenue. Anna M. Quigley, 312 North Fourth Street. Sarah P. Forman, 117 North Fourth Street.
TETON SCHOOL
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TIETON SCHOOL
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McKinley School
Grace E. Bigford, Principal, 705 South Fourteenth Avenue.
Mary E. Keppel, Yakima, Route 7.
Ida Cawdry, 311 South Tenth Avenue. Ruth Duncan, 16 South Naches Avenue.
Anne C. Yenney, 610 South Thirteenth Avenue.
Mabel Bostad, 3 North Naches Avenue.
Anna Miller, 424 South Sixteenth Avenue.
Daisy Burkholder, Nob Hill.
Sadie Leppert, 111 North Naches Avenue.
Leila Sutherland, 404 South Seventh Avenue.
Summit View School
Grace Shannon, Principal, Yakima Route 4.
Kate Hitz, 401 North Fourth Street.
Irene Peckham, 7 South Eighth Street. Mabel Hough, 706 East Yakima Avenue.
Ethel Bartholomew, 116 North Naches Avenue.
Allene White, 510 North Second Street.
Rose Kochendorfer, Yakima, Route 2.
Ella M. Bandy, Baker Avenue.
Clara White, 114 North Eighth Street.
-District 8-Armstrong School- Inez Decoto, Yakima, Route 7, care of W. C. Cope.
District 9-Tampico School-
Elizabeth Hess, Yakima, Route 5.
-District 10-Cowiche High School-
Virgil F. Adams, Principal, Cowiche, Wash.
Harriot Pugsley, Tieton, care J. O. Strand.
Viola Rockett, Cowiche.
Emily Simmons, Cowiche.
Gretchen Case, Cowiche.
-Rimrock School-
Claribel Glidden, Rimrock.
Mrs. Carrie Millard, Rimrock.
-District 11-Cowan School-
Helen McIver, Selah, Route 1.
-District 14-Tieton School-
I. W. Bowman, Principal, Tieton.
Clara Christiansen, Tieton. Beulah Nord, Tieton. Corine Culmsee, Tieton.
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-District 15-Cleman School-
Minnie M. Jewell, Selah, Route 1.
-District 24-Dorothy School- Mary L. Ganders, Mabton.
-District 25-Fruitvale School-
Mae L. Mark, Principal, Yakima, Box 977.
Mildred Watts, Yakima, Route 3.
Myrtle Steele, Fourth Avenue, North.
Jessie Stuart, Yakima, R. 3, care Mrs. Dickey.
-District 26-Wide Hollow School-
J. K. Busch, Principal, Yakima, Route 4.
Mrs. N. Gothberg, Yakima, Route 4. Rosella Hamilton, Yakima, Route 4.
Margaret Hamilton, Yakima, Route 4.
Mary Glaspey, Yakima, Route 4.
-District 28-Nob Hill School-
Fred G. Weller, Principal, Yakima, Route 2.
Mrs. E. W. . Bell, 703 South Fourteenth Avenue.
Eva Mabry, 512 North First Street.
Mina Matterson, Yakima, Route 7.
Mrs. Irene Beedle, 207 South Eleventh Avenue.
Della Scott, 1408 West Yakima Avenue.
-District 29-Nile School-
Ethel Langworthy, Naches.
-District 31-Liberty School-
C. M. Turner, Principal, Outlook, Route 1.
Ruth Moore, Outlook, Route 1.
Margaret Bowen, Outlook, Route 1.
Ethel Price, Outlook, Route 1.
-District 32-Zillah School-
J. F. Hargreaves, Superintendent, Zillah.
E. M. Douglass, Zillah.
Gertrude Acheson, Zillah.
Helen Dunn, Zillah. Silva Smith, Zillah. Anna M. Bell, Zillah.
Frank Robertson, Zillah.
Dorothy Williams, Zillah.
-District 33-South Broadway School- A. C. Blodgett, Principal, Yakima, Route 7.
Mrs. A. C. Blodgett, Yakima, Route 7. Marie Pierson, Yakima, Route 7.
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-District 34-Outlook School-
Marius Hansome, Superintendent, Outlook, Box 205.
Harriet T. Hansome, Outlook, Box 205.
Gertrude Duffy, Outlook.
F. L. Buchanan, Outlook.
Lydia O. Golinger, Outlook.
Cora Middleton, Outlook.
Elizabeth Everett, Outlook, care Sam Enoch.
Fanny L. Grant, Outlook.
Hattie Gemmell, Outlook.
Maude Scheyer, Outlook.
-District 35-Wanita School-
Rose Munson, Principal, Grandview, Route 1.
Frances O. Dudley, Grandview, Route 1.
-District 36-Mabton City Schools-
E. F. Hultgrann, Superintendent, Mabton.
O. H. Billings, Principal High School, Mabton.
Caroline E. Bailey, Mabton.
Anna Steendahl, Mabton.
Erma Olin, Mabton.
-Washington School-
Mrs. Louise Vanney, Principal, Mabton. Grace Carrell, Mabton. Martha Tufts, Mabton.
Belle A. Piendl, Mabton.
-District 37-Belma School- F. E. Dilling, Principal, Grandview, Route 2. Edna Young, Mabton.
Lenore Martin, Mabton.
-District 39-Selah Schools-
A. L. Thomsen, Superintendent, Selah, Route 2. F. G. Murdock, Principal High School, Selah. K. K. Thompson, Yakima, 7 South Sixteenth Avenue. Nancy Neighbors, Yakima, 308 North Second Street. Sadie Dunlap, Selah. Harry Sharpe, Yakima, 811 Fourteenth Avenue, South. F. C. Fogelquist, Selah, Route 2. Franc DeGraff, Yakima, 1411 West Yakima Avenue. Vera O. Barkley, Yakima, 304 South Twelfth Avenue. Meda Bessey, Selah, Route 2.
Veva Benham, Yakima, 404 South Seventh Street. Rachael Schmidt, Yakima, 405 Cherry Street. (30)
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-Selah Heights ---
Isabelle Newgard, Selah, R. 2, care Mr. Gore.
-Pleasant Hill-
Jennie Shuman, Naches. -Taylor-
Grace Anderson, Selah.
-Extension-
Mrs. Bessie Norton, Selah, Route 2.
-District 42-Canyon Castle School-
Edith L. Day, Yakima, Route 3, Box 434.
-District 49-Toppenish City Schools- E. T. Robinson, Toppenish. -High School-
D. F. Olds, Principal, Toppenish.
M. O. Monroe, Toppenish.
Bessie N. Saxton, Toppenish.
Leota Trimble, Toppenish.
Florence L. Grime, Toppenish.
Flora B. Salladay, Toppenish.
Magdalen Scott, Toppenish.
-Lincoln School-
W. H. Seale, Principal, Toppenish.
Emily Smith, Toppenish.
Laura M. Sperber, Toppenish.
Maria Yeaman, Toppenish.
Gertrude Link, Toppenish.
Helen Jenks, Toppenish.
Celia Upham, Toppenish.
Ethel M. Lichty, Toppenish.
-Garfield School-
H. W. Ehlert, Principal, Toppenish.
Etta H. Tregloan, Toppenish.
Maude S. Wight, Toppenish.
Lena H. Glenn, Toppenish.
Mrs. B. Grace Melrose, Toppenish.
Zetta M. Gage, Toppenish.
Lula M. Brown, Toppenish.
-Mckinley School-
W. E. Weir, Toppenish. May Weir, Toppenish.
-District 50-Springdale School-
Ella D. King, Principal, Jonathan.
J. C. Martin, Zillah, Route 1.
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GARFIELD SCHOOL, TOPPENISH
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Lola M. Davis, Jonathan. Grace A. White, Jonathan. Bertha Hevly, Jonathan. Mary Oakes, Jonathan. Olive Mackay, Jonathan.
-District 51-Orchardvale School- L. M. Rowe, Principal, Granger, Route 1.
Frances Witte, Granger, Route 1. Ada L. Rowe, Granger, Route 1.
-District 52-Wenas School-
Dehlia Johnson, Selah, Route 1.
-District 54-Wapato Schools-
C. F. Shangle, Superintendent, Wapato.
-High School-
C. A. Arpke, Principal, Wapato. Gladys L. Keyes, Wapato.
Blanche Morris, Wapato.
Nell Ross Brown, Wapato. A. W. Wheeler, Wapato.
-Central School- H. C. Vesper, Principal, Wapato. Mary Bennett, Wapato.
Ida Perkins, Wapato.
Lucile Lincoln, Wapato.
Jessie M. Cobb, Wapato.
Myrtle Keefe, Wapato.
Hazel Cobb, Wapato.
Jenny Olson, Wapato.
-Harrah School- F. G. Bennett, Principal, Wapato. Leanah Bailey, Harrah.
Marion Selleck, Harrah.
-Bradshaw School-
Mrs. Graham Moore, Wapato.
-Liberty School-
Verl Bardwell, Wapato.
-Guyette School-
Cordelia Howland, Wapato.
-Le Roue School --
Noella Gendron, Toppenish. Mrs. Zula Baisden, Special Teacher in Art, etc.
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-District 57-East Selah School-
J. F. Martin, Principal, Pomona.
Alice Love Smith, Pomona.
-District 61-Donoho School-
Mae McDougall, Bickleton.
-District 63-Sunnyside Schools-
O. W. Hoffman, Superintendent, Sunnyside.
-High School-
A. O. Rader, Principal, Sunnyside.
Harriet B. Merritt, Sunnyside.
Virginia Baker, Sunnyside.
Mabel Treasher, Sunnyside.
Ruth Dice, Sunnyside.
Enoch Torpen, Sunnyside.
Martin Brandon, Sunnyside.
Ethel McAssey, Sunnyside.
Dorothy Strachan, Sunnyside.
-Departmental- H. C. Hiches, Principal, Sunnyside.
Mrs. H. C. Hiches, Sunnyside.
Ethel Scott, Sunnyside.
-Denny Blaine-
Avery Walter, Principal, Sunnyside.
Florence Pratt, Sunnyside.
Mary Brown, Sunnyside.
Winifred Thomas, Sunnyside.
Grace · Moore, Sunnyside.
Eva Scott Nichoson, Sunnyside.
Verone Schwalbe, Sunnyside.
Lillabelle Scott, Sunnyside.
-Washington School- M. A. Thompson, Sunnyside. Celia Thompson, Sunnyside.
Beryl Ring, Sunnyside.
-Maple Grove School-
Forest Bredon, Sunnyside. Margaret Chambers, Sunnyside. Grace Snyder, Sunnyside.
-Orchard Ridges School-
Frances McIntosh, Sunnyside.
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-Emerson School-
Ruth Larson, Sunnyside.
Mary I. Stanyar, Sunnyside.
-District 67-Wheatland School-
Mrs. Ray R. Colby, Mabton, Box 327.
-District 73-Small School-
Winifred Howard, Mabton.
-District 74-Lower Tampico School-
Olivia Eschbach, Yakima, Route 5.
-District 78-Wilson School-
Helen Schonhard, Mabton, Wash.
-District 81-Grandview Schools-
A. C. Kellogg, Superintendent, Grandview.
-Central School-
D. M. Callaghan, Principal, Grandview.
Mrs. Harriet Stow, Grandview.
Mildred Robinson, Grandview.
Rosa N. Drow, Grandview.
H. Kenneth Ramnley, Grandview.
William H. Boyd, Grandview.
Anna Corney, Grandview.
Ethel Baker, Grandview.
Helen Davidson, Grandview.
Luella E. Squibb, Grandview.
Nellie Beck, Grandview.
Mary Grant, Grandview.
-Euclid School-
Jennie Rose, Grandview. Jean Ewart, Grandview.
-Bethany School-
Amelia Johnson, Grandview. Clara Behnke, Grandview.
-District 82-Wheatland School-
L. Fern Brown, Sunnyside.
-District 84-Pleasant Valley School-
Nina Pontius, Yakima, Box 1324.
-District 85-Spring Creek School-
Lillian A. Graham, Yakima, Box 265.
-District 86-East Parker School- Clara M. Johnson, Wapato, Route 2.
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-District 87-Byron School- J. G. Hill, Byron.
-District 88-White Swan School-
C. A. Payne, Principal, White Swan.
Mrs. Camilla Payne, White Swan.
Clara Gordon, White Swan.
Nina Stearns, White Swan.
Margaret Row, White Swan.
-District 89-Lower Naches High Schoci-
W. P. Tyler, Principal, Yakima, Route 6.
Lolo L. Cox, 315 North Third Avenue.
Marianne King, 308 North Second Street.
Miriam Moody, 308 North Second Street.
Victoria Tonnemaker, Yakima, General Delivery.
Helen Marion, 315 North Third Avenue.
-Central School-
Clare L. Martin, 301 South Third Street.
-Dobie School-
Grace Folsom, Yakima, Route 6.
-Gleed School-
Genie Berard, 707 North First Street.
-District 90-Moxee Consolidated Schools-
Arthur L. Larsen, Superintendent, Yakima, Route 1.
-Central School-
John G. Gaiser, Principal, Yakima, Route 1.
Guy W. Thompson, Yakima, Route 1.
Mrs. Beryl Bruff, Yakima, 501 South Seventh Avenue. Lena Getsch, Yakima, Route 1.
Audrey Burtch, Yakima, Route 1.
Sallie Walker, Moxee City.
R. L. Dailey, Moxee City.
-Terrace Heights-
Ettie Bruff, Yakima, 501 South Seventh Avenue.
-Riverside School-
Mrs. Lucile Needham, Yakima, Route 1.
-Old Moxee School-
Alle Miller, Yakima, Route 1.
-French School-
Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, Yakima, 501 South Seventh Avenue.
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-Moxee City School-
Lulu Thompson, Yakima, Route 1.
-Artesia-
Sally Walker, Moxee City.
-Black Rock-
Grace Shaw, Moxee City. Elsie Ainslie, Moxee City.
-District 91-Naches City School-
J. M. Campbell, Superintendent, N'aches.
John E. Gabrielson, Naches.
Mabel E. Meyer, Naches.
Mrs. Sue Potter, Naches.
Verona Armbruster, Naches.
Myra R. Harrold, Naches.
Mildred L. Campbell, Naches.
Olive Jackson, Naches.
-District 92-Wendell Phillips Consolidated Schools- E. L. Nichols, Superintendent, Sunnyside, Route 1. J. B. Hergesheimer, Sunnyside, Route 1.
Beatrice H. Carpenter, Sunnyside, Route 1.
Laura Sisson, Sunnyside, Route 1.
Ella Hood, Sunnyside, Route 1.
-Green Valley School-
Elda Pratt, Mabton, Route 1.
-Riverside School-
Frankie Dinsmore, Sunnyside, Route 1.
-District 93-Upper Wenas School-
Cecile Burge, Wenas.
-Umptanum School-
Esther Simmonds, Ellensburg.
-District 94-Granger Schools-
F. W. Griffiths, Superintendent and Principal High School, Granger. A. Eleanor Schlots, Granger.
Frances W. Carlton, Granger.
-Central Building-
Irvin D. Latham, Granger. Marie Maddox, Granger. Ruth A. Spencer, Granger. Dorothy de la Pole, Granger.
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-Alfalfa School-
J. A. Winspear, Alfalfa.
-Satus School-
Erma Northern, Satus.
-District 96-Wiley City School-
Mrs. Grace Oliver, Wiley City.
Miss Katherine Foster, Wiley City.
-District 97-Priest Rapids School-
Eleanor Korth, Priest Rapids.
-District 98-Lincoln School-
Clara M. Vinup, Principal, Granger.
Stella Price, Granger.
-District 99-Marcus Whitman School-
Mrs. Annie Wilkins, Naches.
-District 100-Parker School-
C. C. Vesper, Union Gap.
Viola Lincoln, Yakima.
Florence Oliver, Selah.
-District 101-South Naches School --- Susie Pickett, Naches, Route 1.
-District 102-Mt. Clemans School-
Gladys Johnson, Naches.
-District 103-Oak Creek School-
Mrs. Helen T. Bent, Naches.
-District 104-Plain View School-
Mary Geneva Martin, Mabton.
-District 105-Alkali Canyon School-
Emma Haviland, Yakima.
-District 106-Tietonview School-
Martha B. Douglas, Yakima, Route 2.
Catherine Cowan, Yakima, Route 2.
-Cottonwood School-
Verna Eastman, Harwood.
-Willow Lawn School-
Ina Wright, Yakima, Route 2.
ST. PAUL'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, YAKIMA
ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL, YAKIMA
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PRIVATE SCHOOLS
As noted before the private schools of Yakima County consist at the present time mainly of a group of schools under the management of the Catholic de- nomination.
As given in the county superintendent's report these schools are as follows:
Marquette College for boys of academic grade, in charge of Fathers Buschore and Brustin ; St. Joseph's Academy, in charge of Sister Joseph of Nazareth, with Father Armstrong; St. Paul's Parochial School, in charge of Sister Mary Alphonsa. All the above are in Yakima. Marquette College has a splendid stone building, the erection of which in 1910 was largely due to the energy and vision of Father Conrad Brustin, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Father Brustin, a native of Germany, came to the United States in 1889, and after a varied experience as student, pastor, and teacher in St. Louis, Spokane, St. Regis Mission at Colville, and Seattle, he came to Yakima as pastor of St. Joseph's Church in 1904. Marquette College gives instruction from fifth grade work up to the high school and has a present attendance of eighty-five.
St. Joseph's Academy for girls was established in the early days of 1887 as an Indian school, but became entirely a white school within a few years. It, like Marquette College, is splendidly housed and equipped and in a position to impart high-grade instruction, especially in the lines of music, art, and language. The enrollment of the past year shows three hundred pupils. At Moxee City there is a Catholic school, the Holy Rosary, in charge of Sister Catherine.
There is a Seventh Day Adventist school at Yakima in charge of R. F. Beail and Lucy Andrews.
There has been maintained for a number of years an excellent Kindergarten school by Alice B. Scudder.
We find also a school promoted by St. Paul's Lutheran Church, in charge of O. M. Mantey. Besides the above private schools we find in the Naches Valley the Locust Grove Intermediate School in charge of C. S. Channing and L. I. Stiles. At Ft. Simcoe is the Government Indian School, in general charge of the agent, Donn M. Carr.
The Yakima Business College is one of the notable institutions of Yakima, and in its field is one of the leaders in eastern Washington. The manager and proprietor is Professor S. Van Vleet. This accomplished educator came from Aurora, N. Y., to Yakima in 1906. He established the business college soon after his arrival, conducting it in the Union Block for six years. It has been for nearly six years in its present quarters in the Clogg Building. The usual number of students is 150, varying a good deal, as business colleges are apt to, with the season and the opportunities for employment for the pupils. The constant de- mand for stenographers, typewriters, and well instructed bookkeepers is met to considerable degree by Professor Van Vleet's pupils, and thus it has become one of the business necessities and assets of Yakima.
In many respects the most interesting private school from the historical viewpoint is Woodcock Academy, well known to all pioneers. It was located on the Athanum, and was one of the genuine pioneer academies, of the New England type. After serving a most useful purpose for a number of years, it
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became clear to the founders that the development of the high school idea characteristic of all western communities was such as to supplant the private academy, and in fact make it unnecessary by fulfilling its educational aims. While the high schools do not and can not perform the religious functions which so largely engaged the motives of the builders of denominational institutions, they have taken their places throughout the west, with the exception of preparatory institutions maintained by the Catholic, Episcopalian, Adventist and Lutheran denominations. Woodcock Academy, like other Congregational academies in the state, became merged into the public school system of its locality. This academy held such a unique place in the history of the beautiful Ahtanum country that we are fortunate in being able to include here an account of it by a well known citizen of Yakima, best qualified to do this, Mr. Ernest Woodcock.
WOODCOCK ACADEMY
More than thirty-five years ago, Dr. G. H. Atkinson, superintendent of Con- gregational work in Washington and Oregon, and a well known pioneer, urged the establishment of a Christian school in the Yakima Valley, and suggested the Ahtanum Valley as the most suitable location. His plans were warmly seconded by Deacon Elisha S. Tanner and Deacon Fenn B. Woodcock. Only the last named gentleman lived to see the realization of the long cherished plan.
In the Fall of 1889 the Yakima Association of Congregational Churches took up the matter and appointed a committee to receive offers of money and land for an academy to be located within the bounds of the Association, at the point giving the most encouragement. Ellensburg, North Yakima, and Ahtanum made offers for this institution. These offers were presented at the meeting of the asso- ciation in the Spring of 1890. That of Ahtanum was most encouraging. Sixty acres of good land was offered by Fenn B. Woodcock and wife, and a subscrip- tion in money and labor amounting to about three thousand dollars accompanied the offer of land.
The association voted its hearty approval of the proposition to found such an institution and approved of its location in the Ahtanum Valley. The follow- ing board of trustees was secured and incorporated in 1890: Hon. R. K. Nichols, president ; Rev. S. H. Cheadle, secretary ; Fenn B. Woodcock, treasurer ; Rev. Samuel Greene, Rev. Frank T. McConaughy, Hon. D. W. Stair, Mr. John Cowan, Captain J. H. Thomas and Dan W. Nelson. In the carrying out of their trust, the Ahtanum Academy was completed and opened for school in September, 1892. In January, 1897, its chief founder, Fenn B. Woodcock, was taken to his rest, and the trustees voted to commemorate his name by changing the corporate name of Ahtanum Academy to that of Woodcock Academy. The institution was car- ried on for thirteen years. During this time the following were principals : William Heiney, Frank McCanaughy. N. P. Hull, J. M. Richardson, O. C. Palmer, W. L. Dawson, Rosine M. Edwards, Ernest Woodcock. The institution had boarding accommodations and was well attended. Students came from Yakima and the surrounding valleys, and some from outside the state.
At the present time the only thing about the academy of worth is a memory connected with the history of the Valley. The institution had its day and did
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a good work. It was the expression of Fenn B. Woodcock, who came here from Williamstown, Massachusetts, and whose home was near Williams Col- lege. So when the opportunity offered it was natural for him to want this thing for his own community. He carried a subscription paper with him. He was not a public speaker, but he could talk to one or two people at a time on the subject of academy with good results. It was his attorney, the Hon. W. L. Jones, who got up all the legal papers in connection with the institution. He began to talk of an eight thousand dollar building and equipment. It was some under- taking and his neighbors wondered how he was going to do it, for up to that time a six hundred dollar public school building and a two thousand dollar church was the limit in the way of construction at Ahtanum. From the time the institution was located he was on the job continually, buying supplies, hiring men, paying bills. He was out of debt when the academy started, and was almost broke when he died.
Rev. A. J. Bailey, Rev. Samuel Green, Rev. S. H. Cheadle and Rev. Frank McConaughy devoted their untiring energies to its development. During the principalship of N. P. Hull a very successful Summer school was held at the academy, which almost every teacher in Yakima County attended.
During the last five or six years the instructors were largely from Whitman College ; Rosine Edwards, Mary Dixon, Lovina Sherman Wiley, Ernest Wood- cock, Etha Woodcock, Martha Wiley, Ollie Crosno. Often their salaries were small compared to what they could have had elsewhere, but they felt that the institution needed them.
Senator W. L. Jones on one occasion delivered the commencement address. He said in part : "I consider it a great honor and privilege to have known intimately Fenn B. Woodcock. He was not what the world calls great. He made no pretentions to greatness. To him right living was the supreme motive of his life. To use his time, his energy and his means to elevate the world in which he lived was his great purpose. He was industrious and frugal. He was earnest and modest. He was a soldier of his country. Of this he boasted not. He had only done his duty. He was truly great and one of that citizenship that makes this nation great. This institution is an emanation from the noble nature of this man and those of this community like him. It is the offspring of love and the product of individual labor and sacrifice. The mere establishment of this institution is but little. There is nothing particularly inspiring about that. There are no great buildings ; there is no great concourse of students. The cir- cumstances of its establishment constitute its worth; are the precious jewels in the setting. It is an easy thing for Carnegie or Rockefeller to establish a library or endow a college. If we had their wealth we could do the same with just as little effort and just as little sacrifice. Did you ever think that there is very little real worth to a gift that does not involve some personal sacrifice? Yet it is so. What does it cost Carnegie to found a library or Rockefeller to endow a college? Nothing. They make no sacrifice. It costs the mno suffering, no worry, no sleepless nights; they draw a check. The money goes. They do not miss it, they think no more about it. Not so with Fenn B. Woodcock and those who cooperated with him. He had nothing but his farm. No, that was not all.
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He had also determination to do something for humanity at whatever cost or sacrifice. The founding of this academy was determined upon. The opportunities for a better education must be provided for the boys and girls of this community. There was no large bank account to draw against and yet money was necessary to erect a building and hire teachers. Farms were mortgaged that the money might be forthcoming. Mr. Woodcock mortgaged his farm. The mortgage must be paid. How? By daily toil and the strictest economy and by daily sac- rifice. Comforts that would have made life more pleasant were not enjoyed that the little store to pay off the mortgage might be increased. Yes, indeed ; it meant something to him and his family and to those who cooperated with him to establish this institution. They counted the cost, they knew what it meant, but they made the sacrifice cheerfully and willingly. Hard times came on. We all know what they are. We have not yet forgotten. There was no complaint. The cost had been counted. The toiling and sacrificing went on cheerfully and uncomplainingly. Other mortgages were put on. Greater sacrifices were re- quired. Harder toil was endured that the institution might be sustained. Be- side such unselfish sacrifices and such unremitting toil how insignificant appear the gifts of those multimillionaires. How noble the work. How heroic the struggle. How precious is the gift. What an incentive to a higher, nobler life."
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