Huntington North High School - Modulus Yearbook (Huntington, IN)

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In Memoriam Raymond B. Woolever Although Raymond B, Woolever was little known to the majority of H, H. S. students, those who were acquainted with him knew him well and respected him for the fine standards of manhood he re- presented. For more than twenty years, his ready wit and friendli- ness complemented his keen know- ledge of yearbook construction and aided Modulus editors through their most difficult work, His interest in Huntington High School can best be shown by the fact that he was attending our Twelfth Annual Re- vue when death overtook him on the night of January 31, Homer A. Buzzard It would be hard to name a per- son who had the interest of the schools more at heart than Homer A, Buzzard, who, for more than six years, served on the School Board; and it was with deep regret that the students learned of his death the morning of March 25, as a re- sult of injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile the night of the regional tournament, March 8, In addition to his inteiest as a member of the School Board, Mr. Buzzard was closely connected with the school through his sons: Lowell, a member of the high school faculty; and Homer Jr., a graduate of last year, Lester Laurie Lester Laurie, a member of the Class of 1944, had only a few days in Huntington High School before his untimely death when he was struck by an automobile while rid- ing a bicycle, on the evening of September 14, 1940, +i a ai

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Goodye, Mr. In the year 1898, when teachers still could gain a license to teach by merely passing a test given by a county superintendent, Mr, Byers walked out of a Blair County, Penn- sylvania, superintendent’s office with said license and began six years of teaching in one of those proverb- ial “little red school houses,”’ Dur- ing those summers, he attended a six-week summer schoo] for teach- ers and renewed his license, The not spent in the customary forms of vacations, but in for coal rest of his summers were hard work; mining, cutting timber in the forests, firing on the Penn- sylvania Railroad, and quarrying Byers! limestone are first-hand experiences to him as well as work in rubber, steel range, and stock food fact- ories; but he feels that all of this gave him more real education than that he has received at all the col- leges and universities he has at- tended, for there he learned to read men and their motives and to un- derstand them, and to appreciate and interpret nature, In he fall of 1911, just thirty years ago, Mr, Byers came to Hunt- ington to take up a position on the high school faculty, One of his duties he regards as a joke, for that first year found him coaching the school baseball team, He says he didn’t know a thing about it, but records show that the team won more than half of its games. In 1915 Mr, Byers succeeded as principal of Huntington High, and twenty-one years later was pro- moted to the office of superinten- dent of Huntington city schools, this time succeeding J, M, Scudder, Now after rendering thirty years of successful service in the-educa- tional advancement of the Hunt- ington schools, Mr. Byers has re- signed; but he will continue his work as an educator, In regard to his retirement, Mr. Byers wished to leave this message to the students of Huntington High: “T am leaving the school system, but my heart will be with the boys and girls of the Huntington schools all of my life, Huntington has been good to me, and I carry with me memories of joyous associations while teacher, principal, and super- intendent of schools, I leave with many regrets that I will not be able to see and talk to the boys and girls of Huntington, I leave the work of civic organization with much regret as well, It has been a pleasure to work with such organ- izations as the Central Christian Church, the Kiwanis Club, the Y, M,C. A,, the Salvation Army, and many others, I have given the schools of Huntington thirty years of service, and I hope it has keen both worth-while and valuable.” At the present time, Mr, Byers is expected to spend the first year of his retirement at his home in northern Michigan, near McMillen, in the Upper Penninsula of that state, For twenty years his sum- mers have been spent in this region, and his home there represents the fruits of his own labor, While other plans are rather in- definite, Mr, Byers hopes to have time now to carry out some cherish- ed plans for writing, With Mr. Byers will go the hear- ty good wishes, not only of the present student body of Hunting- ton High School, but those hordes of pupils of his of the past, in whose minds Huntington High School and Mr, Byers have been in- separably associated through three decades, While Mr, Byers may no longer be a permanent citizen of the community, the ideals which he helped to implant in the school pupils of the city will continue to reside in the persons of his form- er pupils,