Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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pw My Ll! L. l 1 Administration THE development of education in Mentor township is very valuable and interesting historically, for its beginning dates back many years. Although the exact date of the erection of the first schoolhouse in Mentor is not known, it is believed that it was sometime prior to 1840. The site of the first schoolhouse is where the Murray residence is now situated. The first teacher, Katherine Smith, received three shillings a week, and the kind school directors allowed her to bring her spinning wheel to school. The second school house, a log building which stood exactly where the Mentor High School is now situated, was conducted by Miss Experience Dewey. This school consisted of one large room with a very good stage at the east end, and a warm stove well-placed to protect the scholars and teachers from the wintry blasts. After a few years this school house burned. The books burned and this was the greatest loss to the community for books were scarce and herefore of great value. The loss of wood was of little or of no consequence. The third school house was built on Hopkins Farm, west of the present Kenney property and Mr. Alfred Morley, a stern man, was the first teacher. He was succeeded by Mr. Salkeld, a much-beloved and wonderful teacher. The Belldeck school house, recognized by its peculiarly shaped belfrey, was next erected west of Winfield's tourist camp. The Belldeck school house was later moved to Jackson Street and is now the ShanoWer's resi- dence. About the year 1860, an era of brick school buildings began. Many of these remain today scattered throughout the community either vacant or used as homes. To recall a few of these to mind one may 'find the Men- tor Plains, North Mentor, Headlands Road, Stockwell District, Little Moun- tain schools, and others still standing. Little is known about the enrollment of the early schools except that there were more pupils attending school in 1850 than in the nineties. A ,..,.Y? L ' if,

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, 1 D. R. RICE Principal To the Seniors of Mentor High School: Four years ago the doors of Mentor High School swung open to welcome the class of 1930 into the fuller and richer life of our school. Time has passed and you are now ready to take your departure and enter into new fields of interest. During your stay it has been the purpose of the school to have each one of you learn each successive day a little bit more to stand alone, to carry on without over-sight and direction, to control your own interests and desires, and to direct your own conduct towards worthy ends. The most important test of our school's efficiency is the degree to which we have made ourselves not indispensable but dispensable to you, and have taught you self guidance, self discipline, and self control, which you will. now be called upon to exercise. The citizens of Mentor believe in education. They have provided these excellent educational opportunities in order that you may be prepared by self mastery to meet the competition of this day. Your four years of school life at Mentor have been of mutual benefit to both yourselves and the school. You have experienced the full rich life of our opportunities here, and the school has become a finer and better school because of your stay. As you graduate, we wish for you all the fullest possible measure of success as you take your next step in life and endeavor to apply some of the valuable lessons you have learned here. Most cordially yours, I fl ' 1 ' SCVCTI ,- ,