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MRS. EARL CROOKS Languages MISS LELA TAYLOR English E. D. BATES Superintendent of Schools ALFRED HUGHES Mathematics Athletic Coach. Mrs. Bessie Brinkerhoff Commercial BURL S. BROWN Principal. History and Civil Government. GAIL H. BUTT Science FACULTY'—“ It is tetter to hear the Rebukes of the Wise than for a Man to Listen to the Song of Fools ”
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History of the Crooksville Schools T is impossible to write a history of the Crooksville schools and tell in detail of their growth. Their growth has been so rapid that many desperate situations have arisen and been met with, each in its own particular way. Great credit must be given to our former superintendents—M. G. Calhoon, G. L. Brown and the late G. W. DeLong, for meeting and coping successfully with these situations. To the best of our knowledge, the first school building in Crooksville was a small one-room affair, standing on the present site of the East School Building. It was a very crude structure, having but three windows and a door. In a very short time it was outgrown by the influx of youngsters in our town and gave way to two frame buildings, one with six rooms, standing where the present East School now stands, and the other a four-room building, located on the west hill. These two buildings were crowded from year unto year until the sides fairly cracked, and in 1906 they were sold as store rooms and replaced by the present buildings at the East and West. In 1909 the present North Building was erected and still we continued to grow. Our population of 800 in 1900 quadrupled itself in ten years and in 1913 we had a population of 3784. Our High School was crowded out of the East building in 1909 where it remained until the North building was erected. It was then transferred to the West Building, but in 1914 conditions became such that the present High School Building became a necessity and in 1915 we moved into our present quarters. In 1915 departmental teaching was introduced into the elementary schools and the work of the 7th and 8th grades was so co-ordinated through the Manual Arts and Domestic Science with the high school as to form a junior high school. This allowed for special teachers to be introduced where necessary, until at the present time we have a drawing teacher, teacher of physical education, teacher of penmanship, music teacher, commercial teacher in addition to all the other teachers who are specialists in their line. We have 27 teachers all told, twenty in the elementary grades and seven in the high school. From 1898 to the present time we have had but 4 superintendents— M. G. Calhoon......................1898-1901 G. L. Brown....................... 1901-1903 G. W. DeLong.......................1903-1905 M. G. Calhoon......................1905-1912 E. D. Bates........................1912—present time. Among our high sehoo1 principals we can recall W. J. Bankes, Dean of the Teachers College. Ak on University; E. H. Brown, father of our nresent principal, superintendent of schools at Upper Sandusky; G. W. DeLong, deceased, who was a well known school man in Ohio, his last position being as district superintendent in Muskingum county; F. H. De Wolfe, now superintendent of schools at Glenford. Ohio; Don. Pyers who went from here to the superintendence at Sugar Grove, and Miss Agnes Atkinson who teaches history in the Junior High School in Fresno, California. To M. G. Calhoon must go a great deal of credit for the organization of the Crooksville High School and bringing it up through its infancy, against great odds and under adverse circumstances until it obtained its first grade charter. There are other persons who have done much for our schools but time and space forbid our recounting their deeds.
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