Deshler High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Deshler, OH)

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QRANBE AND BLACK The Ola School House An Autohiogra ny AM jirowing okl and feeble, and feel that my time is not long in this town, and therefore, wish to say a few words of farewell to the boys and girls who have made my halls ring in days gone by, and to say a w-ord of greeting to those other boys and girls who will come after I am gone, and who will make friends with my youthful suc- cessor, whose walls are rising between me and the summer sun. To my old friends, I bid farewell. Some of you I have known for many years. I remember well when my first rooms were built in 1882. That was forty years ago, not so long ago as the Pyramids were built but a long time for a building like myself. I was a fine structure those days, wlien Deshler was mostly woods and swamp, and most of my friends lived in log cabins. However, rail- roads were Iniilt, more people came to take up farms, and cut off the timber. More people moved into Deshler, and. my walls wou ' d no longer accomodate the hosts of l oys and girs, wdio needs must go to school. So more rooms were added to me, and I attained new dignity, for now tlie first lioy graduated from my High School. That was in 1888, and the boy was E. F. Watkins. I have often wondered where he is, but no one seenis to know. Not mucii hapi ened for a few years. Boys and girls -■tnd tencliers came and went, some graduated, wliile (itliers liecnnie impatient to get to work, and left my walls for the farm and factory. I have always been sorry for such as these, for I feel tliat they have often wisiied themselves back safe within my friendly, inspir- ing rooms, when problems with which they could not deal, have arisen. At last, I, once more, outgrew myself, and the present High School rooms were added in 1902. I now felt quite grown-up, for I at last attained the place where I had need of both a Superintendent and Principal. I suppose there were more youngsters need spankings than when I were younger. As I said in the beginning, I am getting old and feeble, and I feel oUler when I see children and grandchildren of my older friends playing about me. I should have retired several years ago, but like you old fo ' ks, when you cannot get assistance, I had to keep going, e en though my walls and floors were siiaky, and sometimes seemed ready to collapse. Xow, I wish to say a last word to my young friends, who will use my successor. Be kind to your new School lloiise. Use it carefully, and it will repay you. I have often grieved over the thoughtless hoys and girls who have defaced my old wal ' s, and I hope that none in the future will be so unkind to give cause for sorrow to the new bui ' ding. Adie.i.

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