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MADISON TOWNSHIP CONSOLIDATED GRADE and HIGH SCHOOL 1922 In 1923, this article appeared in the 1923 Educational Directory, Jay County Public Schools: This year witnessed the complete consolidation in Madison Township in one of the best build- ings in the state. The new building was built at a total cost of approximately fifty thousand dollars and is pronounced by the school inspector and other state officials to be one of the best arranged rural consolidated buildings in the entire state. Many of the patrons in other townships are gradually coming to see that the best advantages can only be obtained through a system of consolidation of the schools and while the process is slower than in some other counties of the state, yet it is a gradual process and will in the course of a few years include all the townships where the system is at all practicable. Classes first met in the fall of 1923 with Harold Brubaker as principal. Mr. Brubaker remained as principal for seventeen years until he went to Portland as principal of Portland High School. Others who taught at Madison that first year were S. A. Armstrong, who taught for ten years, Clarence McLaughlin, who taught for twenty-six years, Lulu Tinkle, J. A. Spifler, John LeMaster, who came back as principal for nine years, Floyd Freemyer, Mabel Whitacre, Vesta King, and lona Myers. Other teachers who taught for ten years or more were Frances Brubaker, Thelma Kidder, Mabel Ickes, Gladys Miller, Dale Marsh, Ralph Messner, Aides Mott, and Nadine Spencer. Eleven Madison graduates returned to teach at Madison. They are as follows: Thelma Kidder, Tressa Miller, Clarence Sommer, Rachel Warnock, Emma Stump, Marie Bibler, Florence Heidegger, Ivan Sommer, Doris Harruff, Ruth Evelyn Theurer, and William Paul Lee. Our school has had many successful basketball seasons and has won the County Tourney eight times. Our baseball team won the County Championship in 1932. We also had a girls ' basketball team which played until 1929. Denny Van Osdol competed in the State Track Meet in 1964. The Rhodes Scholarship was established by Walter Rhodes in 1956 and has been awarded to these students since 1956: Ann LeMaster, Arlene Morris, Carolyn Milthaler, Joy Turner, Karen Van Osdol, Ginger Layman, Barbara Thornton, Janet Ballard, and Dennis Theurer. In 1964, Madison again joined larger forces for the improvement of our school system. Madison Township School became a member of the Jay School Corporation. Plans are now being made for a new modern educational system that can compare with the best in the state, as that of Madison did when we started in 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Theurer
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FIRST ROW: Thelma Kidder, Ruby Keltner, Paul Whitaker, Tressa Miller. FIRST ROW: Velma Stone, Vera Miller, Minnie Hull. SECOND ROW: Ralph Ehrhart, Lee Gagle, Clarence Sommer, LeRoy Zearbaugh, Fredrick Eley.
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