Antwerp Local High School - Archer Yearbook (Antwerp, OH)

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Centennial Reflections 1984 Archer Archer Yearbook Staff EDITOR Tami Figert ASSISTANT EDITOR Barb Goetz BUSINESS MANAGER Beth Derek STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHER Kim Humbarger STAFF Barb Overmyer Tina Taylor Miho Yasuda Amy Baumle Donna Buckland Dawn Hopkins Johnette McCain Angie Reinhart Shari Ross Joni Jordan ADVISER Kathleen Neidhardt THE SIXTEEN PAGE HISTORY OF THE ANTWERP LOCAL SCHOOL WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE EFFORTS AND COOPERATION OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: The Antwerp Board of Education, Kathleen Neidhardt, Barb Goetz, Marcellene Noll, Marianne Cottrell. Peggy Savage, Jane Langham. Rebecca Geyer, and others, too numerous to mention, that supplied pic- tures and information.

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100 YEARS 1867 There were 84 boys and 95 girls enrolled in the Antwerp School. 1868 In 1868 students who wished to read and write compositions were allow- ed to do so. Teachers were given a certain time for singing once a week on Friday. 1869 The trustees were given permission to use one or more classrooms for election purposes provided they received the votes through the windows. 1874 On September 29, the Antwerp school bell was purchased for $1 1 7.00. 1881 -John Snook was the first Antwerp graduate. This was only the beginning of his education as he went on to become a congressman and a judge. 1886 The salary of the superintendent was S75.00 per month for a term of nine months. The salary for the teacher of the gram- mar department was set at $40.00 per month. The teacher of the immediate department was paid $33.33 per month. The teachers of the A and B primary department, the C primary department and the D primary department earned salaries of $30.00 per month each. The school board of the Antwerp Village District bought II ' cords of wood at $1.25 per cord. Rev. Father Schniber of St. Mary ' s Catholic Church expressed his objection to the use of Bible in the opening exer- cises of school as had been a custom for some time. His objections were not sus- tained by the school board. 1887 Total enrollment of the Antwerp Village School for the school year ending in May, 1887 was 348. A room was partitioned off on the second floor of the building to be used as a recitation room. One clock was purchased for each school room. The school board adopted the school policy that children who would become six years of age during the school term would be admitted to school at the begin- ning of the term. The average grade was established to be a score of 7.5 ' , on examinations and a grade below 60 ' ' , [ailing. Improvements the school board made for this school year were to purchase more blackboards and 12,000 match sticks in 3 lengths to be used for object teaching in the primary department. Supplies purchased included a set of physiological charts, three fractional ap- ples, five sets of toy money, and one cubic root block. The Antwerp Village School District pur- chased tun lots, lying east of and adjoin- ing the school property. The school board purchased a number of trees to be supplied at the school grounds on April 21, 1887, in observance of Arbor Day 1888 The school board adopted the policy that any pupil absent four half days in any term without a reasonable excuse from a parent or guardian or who shall purposely absent himself from the 2 Antwerp Local School Superintendents l.R.E.Diehl (1886-1902) 2. John H. Finley (1902-1908) 3. John Berg (1911-1914) 4.W. C. Kunce (1914-1924) 5. J. A. Cottrell (1924-1928) 6. Guy Deemer (1928-1941) 7. Archie Bell (1941-1953) 8. O. R. Zedaker (1953-1962) 9. Troy Penner (1962-1965) 10. Dale Adams (1965-1974) 11. Ralph Brown (1974-1981) 12. Charles Taylor (1981 -present) Pictures were not available for these former superintendents. A. K. Delong( 1874-1876) Frank V.Irish (1876-1877) W.H. Snook (1877-1878) T. R. Millison ( 1878-1879) C. W. Prettyman (1879-1883) A. K. Grubb(1886) G. W. Hurless ( 1908-1911)