Pemberville High School - Pemberette Yearbook (Pemberville, OH)

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H 1 S T 0 R Y 0 F P E M B E R V I L L E S C H 0 0 L S The f rst lUStltUtlOD of learnlng in Pembervllle, The Forks, as it was called then, accordlng to the recollectlon of the ploneers, was bullt of logs 1U the year 1835 and sltuated on the banks of the Portage Rlver, near where the HOCklUg Valley brldge 15 now located The teacher, Mlss Almlra Webster, recelved the l1bera1 salary of one dollar per week and boarded wlth the puplls The secondschool waserected about 18A8 or 1850 onthe corner of College and Blerly Avenues Thls bulldlng was an lmprovement over the old, as lt was a frame structure The thlrd school bulldlng was sltuated on the east end of the lot now occapled by the Lutheran Church The fourth was sltuated on the lot where Thoma Rlder now 11ves Thls bulldlng contalned two rooms and was a two story structure In 1917 the school came under the guldance of a Mr Gorrel, who was, perhaps, the flrst teacher to be glven the t1t1e of superlntendent He was succeeded by a Mr Barton About the year 1875 the school bulldlng was moved to the present school lot From then to 1880 the school was under the care of Mlss Magrum, About 1880,the people of thls peaceful v111age declded that the 11ttle old frame bdlldlng was no longer flt as an 1HSt1tUtlOU of learn1ng,so plans were made to erect a magnlflcent bu11d1ng at a cost of 812,000 George H Wlthey w s the flrst slperlntendent ln thls new balldlng and he plloted the sctool the next s1x years The year 1883 saw th flrst graduatlng class John S Hoyman headed the school from 1886 to 1889 Ddrlng hls admln lstratlon, the study of Latln was resumed nd llterature and botany were added The standard of the school was ralsed so tHR,there were no graduates from 1887 to 1891 In 1892, D R Jones was elected superlntendent He was succeeded by A i . . . . A . W x 1 . 'I . 7 A K S . . n I . Mr. Kellog and Mr. Hubbard. V . . . . 1. . . . . . . I. a . N . . . V. . . . A t 9 . - E: ' ' . , 1 . . . . - . . . x H 8 . A . ' Q . 1 Y