Harrodsburg High School - Harrodian Yearbook (Harrodsburg, KY)

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The Harrodian Page 5 SB DEDICATION to Principal J. K. Powell, whose work and loyal devotion to the best interest of the students of Harrodsburg High School have been strong factors in the moulding of the character of those who are leaving, we the Class of 1937 dedicate this issue of the Harrodian.

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Page 4 The Harrodian 1937 The First School In Kentucky Along with the women and children who came to Kentucky in the spring of 1775, was a teacher, Mrs. Jane Coomes, wife of William Coomes. To her goes the distinction of being the first teacher who taught school in Harrodsburg and in the state. Enclosed by the stockade of Fort Harrod. on the very soil trod by the pioneer children as they went to and from their school tasks, now stands a replica of Mrs. Coomes’s single room log schoolhouse. It has a dirt floor, pounded hard, and no ahinking in the walls. The windows are of heavy greased paper. In the one room are backless benches made of puncheons—split logs, with legs driven into the rounded side. There were no books, paper nor pencils. The children learned by singing their lessons in unison, or from letters printed on wooden paddles- The only map was a rude drawing of the Great Dipper, by means of which every child was taught how to find his way, should he get lost in the dense forest. A huge fireplace fills one entire end wall of the building, with a whole through which great logs were pushed in from the outside to replenish the fire. A dunces’ stool and a noggin for water with a gourd for a drinking cup completed the picture. The fact that such a school was kept despite the hardships of pioneer life and of Indian attacks proves the estimate put on education by our forefathers. Thus we, the Senior Class, publish this Harrodian of 1937 with the hope that it will serve to bind us closer to our Alma Mater.

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Page 6 The Harrodian 1937 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Attributed to Lord Brougham.