Waynesfield Goshen High School - Reflections Yearbook (Waynesfield, OH)

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aryGorclonHill By T'S BEEN A LONG TIME AGOQ And I want to tell it in rhyme, you know, About a woman with a beautiful face, That lived near the very same place- On the very identical lands Where Wayne High School now stands. Here she lived and labored and slept, Washed and scrubbed and swept, And the walls of her cabin rang With her sweet voice, as she sang The songs of her childhood. And as they echoed through the Wildwood The birds would take up the singing Until the woods would be ringing With the chorus from that forest throng, The chrous of Mary Gordon's song. Now this lovely creature, Was Waynesiield's first teacher. The house in which she gave instruction, Was of round log construction g A clap-board roof and a puncheon floor, With paper windows and nothing more. N aught was pretty in the place ' Excepting Mary Gordon's face. You say, I'd like if you would, To tell me where this school house stood? This hut of logs, now all rotten, Has its location been forgotten? No indeed, and I must say, That if it were standing to day, Do you know where you'd find it? Not in front of Wayne nor behind it, But you'd say to me I've found it, With the walls of Wayne around it. But that lady so fair, Would not be found there, For her body lies under the sod. Her soul is with its God, But the name of that woman still Will cling to that old hill. So let the bell from Wayne tower above, Ring out a message of love, From the hill where she wrought, From the hill where she taught, Saying: The work is still being doneg The work which Mary Gordon begun. page Sl Don W. R

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T h e R e t r 0 S p e c t Nineteen Fifteen TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION Frank Patterson, John Davisson, R. A. Gullet, John Horn, president, Emmet Moyer. Members High Schooi Com- mittee-R. A. Gullet. Emmet Moyer. age five

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Wayne High School Faculty Ninetee'1Fifteen MR. C. M. LEHR A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best. Our superintendent, Mr. C. M. Lehr, should feel relieved and gay because he has put his heart into his work since he has lived in Waynesfield. Mr. Lehr is a graduate of O. N. U. with a B. S. degree. He has taken post- graduate Work at Ohio Wesleyan University, at the O. S. U. and at the Tri-State Normal College in Angola, Ind. He carries life certi- ficate both high school and common school. Mr. Lehr was the iirst man in the state to es- tablished a course in agriculture in connection with the high school. He was the third man to be appointed township superintendent in the state of Ohio. Prof. Lehr came to Waynes- field from Crawfis Institute at Lancaster, O. He has not only taken an interest in the village school, but has shown a great interest also in the rural schools and the normal department which we have here. He has only been in this school one year, but the class of '15 Wish him success in his future school work wherever it may be. page se en