Berkeley Springs High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Berkeley Springs, WV)

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 $ B o 0 1 o WARM SPRINGS ECHOES PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF BA I H DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX BERKELEY SPRINGS. W. VA.

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g L3 ocliocition • To Prof. .1. X. Fries, tenclier in Bath District Ilijrli School since its es famishment in 1918, tliis annual is dedicated. Professor Fries was horn near Winchealer, Virginia. December 18, 1850. Tie attendi i the subscription schools held in his neighborhood and later went 1.0 Lebanon Valley College, where he did one year of preparatory work and tnrce years of College work. At the close of this Junior year he went to Otterbcin University for his Senior year. lie was graduated June 1st. 1870. with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later lie received his M. A. degree from the same University. When public schools were first established in Virginia Professor Fries became one of the pioneer teachers. For twenty years lie was connected with the Shenandoah Institute having barn one of the founders of this in- stitution. Twenty-five years ago lie came to teach in West Virginia. lie s now leaching his twenty-first year in Berkeley Springs. I-Ie served as prin- cipal and as teacher of Mt. Wesley High School for a number of years. lie was much interested in providing more commodious quarters for the High School, and, in connection with two other teachers, Miss IlaJl, and Mr. Yeardly. laid the first brick upon the foundation of the new building, when the school was removed to the new building under the name of Bath District High School he continued as teacher in the latter school, where lie 1ms also served as assistant principal. The present term marks his fifty-first year in the teaching profession. PAGE THREE