Harriet Whitney High School - First Lady Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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DEDICATION With deep appreciation We, the seniors of the Whitney High School for Girls, Hoping that we may be able to follow her pattern, Dedicate this, our annual, To Harriet Whitney, who through courage and wisdom Achieved the goal she wished. Harriet Whitney lived a long and noble life. She was born in Oswega Falls, Michigan, in the year, 1814. Her family moved to Toledo when she was five years old. Here she lived until death took her aged body and gentle soul. She had always been interested in education. When she was six- teen years old, her greatest aspiration -- to teach school -- became a reality. Being the first teacher in Toledo, she was a pioneer of education in our city. It took infinite courage and patience to achieve what she did in those horse and buggy days. In wonderment we gaze at your portrait so fair. We are awed at the hardship you had to bear. Our thoughts wander to the school house so crude and bleak, Where your few eager pupils A came education to seek. May the ideals and the principles which activated the life of Harriet Whitney forever haunt the halls of our modern school building. ------Eleanore Kaminski 7

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PORTRAIT OF HARRIET WHITNEY by John Swalley presented October 1940 by the descendants of Harriet. Whitney to the school which bears her name

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Back Row ---- Second Row Front Row--- FIRST LADY STAFF Dolores Piker, Jean Duda, Marian Diefenback. --Genevieve Lewandowski, Betty Warren, Fanny Orfenides, Bernice Otting, Arlene Hoffman, Colleen Sullivan, Blanche Brona. Ann Woods, Alverda Goltz, Lucille Zattau, Mary Ann Nadolny, Mary Jane Clark, Mary Scott, Dolores Vogelsang. 8 Viola Haney, Jeannette Habenstrait, Dorothiea Bartow.