Marengo High School - Review Yearbook (Marengo, OH)

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1940 - MARENGONIAN - 1940

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1940 MARENGONIAN I940 TEACHERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES THE SYAFF, FOR THE SAKE OF VARIETY THIS YEAR, HAS ASKED EACH TEACHER FOR A SHORT AUYODIOGRAPHY FOR YI-IE ANNUAL. MARTHA H. VAUGHAN I WAS Donn ON A FARM MEAR MT. GILEAD. THERE I ATTENDED RURAL SCHOOL A D LATER GRAQQAIEDAFROM MT. GILEAD HIGH SCHOOL. I ATTENOED MARION COLLEGE, MARION, NPIANA AND COMPLETED A TwO'YEAR NORMAL COURSE. ' f I MY FIRST TEACHING wAs IN ONE or THE GILEAD TOWNSHIP RURAL SCHOOLS FOR FOUR YEARS. THEN I ACCEPTED A POSITION AT MARENGO, NHERE I HAVE BEEN FOR FOUR YEARS, MY VACATIOBS HAVE BEEN SRENT IN TAKING ADDITIONAL WORK AT DOWLINGISRBIN STATE UNIVERSITY AND HIO STATE. ' .I MYRTA VINDSOR III THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS or MY LIFE HERE SPENT IN UNION COUNTY, UHIOQ WHERE I ENTERED A LITTLE COUNTRY SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS, AT HAY TEME WE USED THE MCGUFFEY READERS, THE ECLECTIC SPELLER AND SLATES. ONE WAS CONSIDER D VERY FORTUNATE, INDEED, TO DE ABLE T0 BUY A BIG DOUBLE SLATE VITH RADDED SIDES, MY FIRST EARNINGS WERE PENNIES WHICH I SECURED DY GETTING HEADMARRS IN SPILL NG- A PENNY A HEAOMARK. AFTER GOMINO TO MoRROw COUNTY, I ATTENDED SCHOOL AT SOUTH HOODDURY, LATER GRAD- UATING FROM ALUM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL. SOME YEARS LAYER I RECEIVED A FOUR YEAR DIPLOMA FROM BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL. AFTER TEACHING A IEW YEARS IN THE RURAL SCHOOLS or MORROW COUNTY, TAUGHT IN FULTON AND MARENGO. I REOIGNEO THE LATTER P09' IT'0N TO ATTEND OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WHERE I SPENE Two VERY PROFITAOLE YEARS AGAIN I DEGAN TEACHING, HAVING DEEN EMPLRYED In DISON AT THE TIME OF MY MAh1 RIAGE, MY HUSBAND AND I THEN PURCHASED THE HOME IN WHICH VE NOV LIVE ABOUT THREE MILES WEST OF MARENGOO I I soon FOUND THAT MY TEACHING CAREER WAS NOT ENDED POR VE WERE SCARC V SET' TLED IN OUR NEw HOME wHEN A FORMER CLA8SMATE'THEN A SCHOOL BOARD MEMDER AS ED NEW TO TEACH IN THE OLD SCHOOL DUILOING FROM wHIcH I HAD GRADUATES SEVERAL YEAFS FR VIOUSW AS IT VAS NEAR HOME, I AGGERTEE THE OFFER. ' Ii I IME PASSED ON. Two CHILDREN, RALPH AND ERMA, DRIGHTENED OUR HOME. WHEN RA PH - ENTERED THE FIRST GRADE IN MARENGO, I TOOK UP MY OLD Jon AS TEACHER OF THEHINTERSI NEDIATE GRADES IN THE OLD ORION BUILDING ACROSS FROM THE PRESENT ONE. THE YZACHINQ STAFF AT THAT TIME wAS MISS GRAY, PRIMARY, MISS MYERS, GRAMMAR GRADES, ANDIMYSELFI INTERMEDIATE. SINCE THAT TIME I HAVE BEEN EM LOYED IN THE MARENGO SCHOOLS wHEREH I HAVE SPENT SEVENTEEN YEARS IN ALL, I I HISH TO ExTENO MY VERY RETS VISHEG TO EACH or MY PUPILS, AQ WELL AS To THE SENIORS or I94O. I I W CARRIE CHASE I HAS DORN ON A FARM IN THE EASTERN PART OF MORROW COUNTY. MY EARL! SCHOOL DAYS wERE SPENT IN A COUNTRY SCHOOL. I GRADUAYED FR M MT GILEADI IGH S:HOOL w YH THE CLASS OF '21, FOLLOWING MY GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, I WOR ED lU'AN SFU gc IN MT. GILEAD FOR ONE YEAR. I SPENT ONE YYAR AT MORROw COUNTY NOR AL, ,OMPL II MY TWO YEAR NORMAL COURSE AT WITTENDERQ. HAVE TAKEN FURTHER TRAfNlJG5AT O IO, STATE UNIVERSITY, KENT STATE, BOULING GREEN, AND ASHLAND COLLEGE I TAUGHTP MY FIRST TERM Or SCHOOL AT EDISON, THEN TRANSFERRED TO MT. GELEA ELEMHNTAR- MT, GILEAO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AND LATER CAME T0 MARENGO, WHERE HA E BEEN'FOR' HC PAST SEVEN YEARS. I U LUELLA EORTER ' 0 I WAS BORN ON A FARM NEAR DELAWARE, HIO. WHEN I wAS FIVE YEARS OF AGE WE MOVED TO A FRRM SIX MILES NORTH Of MARENGO. I SPENT MY FIRST EIGHT YEARS or SCHOOL IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ONE MILE FROM MY HOME, AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE EIGHTH GRADE, I ATTENDED HAGH SCHOOL AT CHESTERVILLE, FOLLOWING MY GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, I ATTENDED SHLAND COLLEGE, WHERE I COMPLETED MY TWO'YEAR NORMAL COURSE. MT GMI FSSST TERM OF SCHOOL wAS TAUGHT AT CHESTNUT GROVE, A RURAL SCHOOL NEAR 0 EA THE NEXT YEAR I ACCEPTED A TEACHING POSITION AT MARENQO, WHERE I HAVE TAUOHT FOR FIVE YEARS, - DORIS THOMAS COLUMBUS, OHIO, IS MY BIRTHPLACE AND I LIVEO THERE UNTIL I wAS SEVEN YEARS OLD, AT wHIcH TIME MY PARENTS MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO. MANY RUIN OF THE GREAT EARTHOUAR AND FIRE STILL REMAINED WHEN WE WENT TO FRISOO AS THE VESTERNERS CALLED ITS. WHILE LIVING THERE I HAD THE UNIQUE YET ALMOST RAGIC EXPERIENCE OF BEING RUN OVER BY A HORBEDRAWN AMDULANCE AND I SHALL CARRY A HORSESHOE SCAR DACK OF MY KNEE TO MY GRAVE. MY PARENTS AND I REIUBNED TO OHIO WHEN I wAS THIRTEEN. I ATTENDED STL ALOYQIUS ACADEMY AT NEw LEXINGTON, HIO AND NORTH HIGH SCHOOL AT COLUMBUS. FOR SEKERAL YEARS I STUDIEO VIOLIN AT THE EAPITAL COLLEGE OF ORATORY AND MUSIC. I ATTENDED OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ONE YEAR: THEN WE RETURNED TO CALIFORNIA AND THIS TIME wa SETTLED IN LOS ANGELES, THERE I FINISHED MY COLLEGE WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY Or SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FROM WHICH I RECEIVED MY BACHELOR Or SCIENCE DEGREE IN '33. AFTER GRADUATING FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA I ATTENDED KlZEO'HOEyAN BUSLNESS COLLEGE. TAKING A FULL SECIIETARIAL COURSE. I TAUGHT IN THE LOS ANGELES UDLIC CI-IOOLB POR ONE YEAR BEFORE RETURNIHG TO COLUMBUS. SINCE MY RETURN I HAVE TAUGHT THREE YEARS, ONE YEAR AT COLDWATER. HIO, AND Two YEARS HERE AT MARENGOD