Edison Institute High School - Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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H E R A L D Page Seven Youth is Cultivated uvvvuvudvvvvv ..............................nn......... ....... from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford I have been asked to write a few words for the first number of your new school paper. TOWN SCHOOL, MACON There 15 one rule in our school a pyeasam retreat. which is the basis of every other rule, and that is-help one another. Everybody help each other. It is simple, isnlt it? But when we do that we prevent a lot of things going wrong. One of the best life-lessons you can learn in this school is to help one another. In our school every boy and girl has something to do which makes the school better for every other boy and girl. WORK HARD. Work is easy when you do it with all your mind. To put it off, or only half do it, makes it twice as hard. PLAY FAIR. Let all your fun be free of what is mean or harsh. Say no word you will not like to think about when you grow up. Do no act that you would not like your schoolmates to remember about you in years to come. School day memories last a long time. STONE SCHOOL PENNINGTON With the children is Jerome Travis, their teacher. vIvIvIIIIIVVYVVIYIIIIvIvvlvlvlvl'lvvvav'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIV yuvuvyy.... -vrvv WILLOW RUN whose very name suggests rural delights. Let all that we build into our memory of this school, be good and pleasant and useful. MILLS SCHOOL and its quaint. old-fashioned stoop. HENRY FORD Message B ROWNVILLE mind wander When trying in its setting of tall trees. to read an assignment or do a problem. Don't study with the radio going and don,t try to work where others are playing. Try to know your subject and if llII'YvyIIIIVVIIIIVYYVIYIIIIIIIIIVIYVIIIIIIvlvlvIvlvvivvvvl'IIIIIvIvllxlvle you get stuckeseek help. GEORGIA SCHOOLS -EDSEL B. FORD The two schoolsiabove and on left- are situated near Cherry Hill plantation, Ways Station, Georgia. Light and sunshine are characteristics of their Southern en- vironment. IIvavavivvvvervvvvuv vvv

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Page Six HERALD SCOTCH SETTLEMENT SCHOOL on its opening day. THE TOWN HALL with its stately Ionic portico. 1 Where the Field of 1 Au nu... unnuuuunnuruuuuum GREETINGS! Thank you, girls and boys, for givirig me space for a few words 1' in this, your first school journal. You all know that my hobby is gardening, and it is a happy worth-while hobby. Gardening, you know, was one of the first steps in civilization. In the beginning people just roamed about with their flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. Then garden- ing and vineyards came, and people stayed at home to tend the growing things and reap the crops. .nuunnuuuuuuuu nu RAWSONVILLE, the little school in the valley. u.uuuuuuuuuu CLINTON INN now the hostelry of youth. GREEN LANE ACADEMY and its wealth of trees. But I am interested in many more things than gardeninge girls and boys, for instance- their games; food, health, and J clothes, and everything that goes to build up their character. That is what the School of Life is doing for uSehelping us to build character. 1 MRS. HENRY FORD COMFORT SCHOOL with its quaint architecture. Another L Thank you, girls and boys, for this opportunity u. .uuuuuuuuuuu.u-uuuuuuuuu of sending you a message. If you were to ask me what the most important thiug in school life is, I would saye I uLearn how to study intelligently. Don,t let your unnuuiuuuu...........u.u.u.uuu CENTENNIAL SCHOOL on its opening day, September, 1932. 1.... nun... nun... nu........nn....

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Page Eight HERALD The Wayside Inn Schools. MARYiS LITTLE LAMB The school system of the Wayside Inn group in South Sudbury, Massa- chusetts, consists of three schools. The one which undoubtedly has an especially strong attraction for visitors is the Redstone, or Mary Lamb School, which is widely known because of the famous poem concerning one of its pupils of iong ago, the first stanza of which fol- ows: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. The Mary of this world-famous poem was an actual personage, and the inci- dent of her pet lamb following her to school really happened. r Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born March 22, 1806, and died December 11, 1889. When a little girl she attended the Redstone School of District No. 2, at Sterling, Massachusetts, and on the day When her pet lamb followed her to school, John Roulstone, a student pre- paring for the ministry, visited the school and so witnessed the scene which he later put in verse. The poem as it appears today, however, had three stanzas added to it and was iirst printed by Sarah J. Hale in her book of verse. It was the first stanza of this poem that Thomas Edison spoke into the first phonograph. The schoolhouse where the incident took place was purchased in 1926 by Mr. Ford and removed to the estate near the Wayside Inn at South Sudbury. The Redstone Schoolhouse has had a varied history. Built in 1798, it con- tinued in use as a school until 1856. Although known throughout the country- side as the old Redstone Schoolhousefy it was really an ordinary wooden build- ing of the familiar country school type, painted red. Its name was taken from the fact that it stood on a rising called Redstone Hill. When its educational career ended in 1856, the building saw various uses until eventually it became part of the Baptist Church society,s barn and garage at Sterling. Here in 1926, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford discovered it, brought it to Sudbury, and restored it to its original use. NM WAYSIDE INN BOYSi SCHOOL In the month of March, 1928, two Boston buses opened their doors and thirty boys looked for the first time on a school in which they were to be the first students. The main purpose of the school was the development of character and the preparation of boys for their future careers. When school opened in the fall of 1929 the Solomon Dutton House was secured as a dormitory and the number of boys increased to between forty and. fifty. The first graduating class, that of 1929, consisted of Bernard Mallory, Michael Gonet, William Pereen, Ru- dolph Saracusa and Joseph Kuriger. In June, 1930, Leon Gooch, David Sobel, Frank Calbert, William Graham and Hyman Selingman were graduated, and in the following year J oseph Oche- dowski, Louis Seligman, Michael Bolesky, Thomas Margellar, William Bridges, Charles Barkhouse, George Hill and Earl Stoddard. During the summer of 1933 there was developed a complete agricultural four-year course. The present staif consists of Mr. Young, headmaster; Mr. Rorstrum and Mr. Curtis teaching agriculture, with Mr. Thompson and Mr. Sefton carrying the academic subjects. NW SOUTHWEST SCHOOL About the year 1800 the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts, constructed a school just off the Boston Post Road west of the town to accommodate the children living in that vicinity. For one hundred years the original structure stood until finally it was moved three- quarters of a mile east and converted into a residence which sometime later was accidentally destroyed by fire. This school had existed under several names, Peakham School, Wayside Inn School, and Southwest School, any of which might easily have identified it. After the purchase of the property containing the school site, the old foun- dation was located by the position of four poplar trees and upon it was erected the present structure designed as nearly as possible the same as the original. The fall of 1930 saw the first pupils, comprising the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades in the new building. The twenty-three children who attended all came from the town of Sudbury, and two of them walked a mile and a half to school the first day, the others being carried in the station wagons. The first enrollment was as follows: Ivan Stone, Robert Spiller, Barbara Morton, J osephine Torrey, Lucretia Richardson, Jane Way, Doris Seymour, Barbara King, Eleanor Goulding, Vir- ginia Bowry, Yvette Harrington, Made line Torrey, Esther Miller, Thomas Winship, John Merrill, J ohn Bunker, Ralph Stone, Parker Bartlett, Donald Bowry, Virginia Ellms, Ruth Stone, Eleanor Stone. Of this number John Merrill and J ohn Bunker were from the Wayside Inn Boys, School, and later four more joined them, namely, Francis J ohnson, William Roby, Albert Niedbala and Francis Quirk. The first graduates were Esther Miller and Madeline Torrey. When the school reopened in Septem- ber, 1931, after the summer vacation, Mrs. Jane Bennett became teacher, and still holds that position. The 1932 graduates were Ruth Stone, Virginia Ellms, Virginia Bowry, Yvette Harrington, Robert Spiller, J ohn Winshjp and Ralph Stone. June, 1933, brought diplomas to J ane Way, Elizabeth Kirkland and Earnest Little, all three of whom passed the Sudbury school examinations with high honors. mm . By means of head-phones and special mlcrophone, a scientist claims to have heard the sound made by worms gnaw- ing in apples. MN Dogsy teeth are used as money in many parts of New Guinea and through- out the South Sea Islands. mm In England they sell eggs by weight as well as by count. SOUTHWEST SCHOOL Lombardy poplars form a stately setting. MARY LAMB SCHOOL where a universally known classic was inspired. 2 WAYSIDE INN BOYSl SCHOOLS where character is built and practical training is given in good citizenship.