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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
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4 930116. vvfi-i g vlQ 2 .- -I-is vf . O ' MAZIE MYERS MY BIRTHPLACE IS IN HARMONY TO NSHIP ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTH OF MARENGO. THE FIRST FORMAL EDUCATION I RECEIVED NAS IN THE THIRD GRADE OF THE FULTON PUDLIC SCHOOLO TER I ATTENDED THE ASHLEY GRADE SCHOOL. AFTER TWO YEARS I RETURNED T0 THE SCHOOL IN FULTON, ND WHILE A STUDENT THERE MRS. WINDSOR wAS MY TEACHER, R I ENTERED THE MARENGO SCHOOL IN THE SEVENTH GRADE AND COMPLETED MY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION HE EO AFTER A SUMMER TERM AT DENISON UNIVERSITY, I COMPLETED THE EXAMINATION FOR A TEACHING CER- TIFICATE ON MY EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY. A FEw WEEKS LATER I WAS EMPLOYEO T0 FILL A VACANCY IN A RURAL SCHOOL IN HARMONY TOWNSHIP. FOR A FEN YEARS I TAUGHT IN THE RURAL SCHOOLS' IN 1922'23 I TAUGHT THE SIXTH GRADE IN EDISON. ONE WEEK BEFORE SCHOOL OPENED MY AUNT PASSED AWAY, AND THE BOARD OF EDUCETION HERE IN MAHBUGO TENDERED ME A POSITION TO BE NITH MY COUSIN. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I RAS RELEASED. DURING THE SUMMER VACATIONS AFTER I923 I ATTENDED OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, AND WITH WORK DONE DURING THE YEARS ON SATURDAY, I IOMPLETEO NECESSARY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE, BACH- ELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION, BY l935. SINCE THAT TIME I HAVE SPENT TWO SUMMER TERMS AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY TAKING WORK TO' WARD A GRADUATE DEGREE IN GEOGRAPHY. I ROBERT HIPPENSTEEL ' I. BORN IN ISIS IN GOSHEN, INDIANA- GRADUATED FROM GOSHEN HIGH SCHOOL IN I934, POR TWO YEARS I ATTENDED GOSHEN COLLEGEifGRADUATED FROM BALL STATE TEACHERIS COLLEGE, I939, HITH DEGREE A.B. IN EDUCATION, MUSIC AS .I'1 A SPECIAL SUBJECT, IN COLLEGE I PARTICRATED IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, BOYIS GLEE CLUB, CHOIR, AND INTRAMURAL ATHLETICS. , EMPLOYED SUMMERS AT GOSHEN RUBBER COMPANY, PLANS FOR THIS SUMMER INCLUDE TRAVEL, SJW- MER SCHOOL IN ENGLISH AT GCSHEN COLLEGE AND WORKO SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE TENNIS, DASKETDALL, SWIMMING, AND MDTORCYCLING. I LOWELL MCMEEKEN I WAS BORN IN CARDINGTON, OHIO. SOMETIME LATER I MOVED TO RINSMAN, OHIO. VARIOUS PLACES HERE I MADE MY HOME WERE! LE ROY BYESVILLE, CANTUN CLEVELAND, COLUMDIANA AND BELLEVUE, NHERE I wAS A GRADUATE OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, FROM BELLEVUE I MADE MY HOME IN CLEVELAND OHIO PRESENT HOME ADDRESS I ATTENDED,B LDNIN-IALLACE COLLEGE.FOR 2 YEARS AND GRADUATES FROM BGULING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY. I WORKED IN SHOE STORES, ON FARMS, AND OTHER NUMEROUS PLACES T0 OBTAIN MONEY FDR COLLEGE I DURlNG.S MMERS I WORKED AS HOTEL CLERK AND BOOKKEIPER AT A LAKE ERIE RESORT. GENEVA STEPHENS I I WAS SSRN ON A FARM NEAR PORT WILLIAM, OHIO. THERE I ATTENDED GRADE AND HIGH SCHOOLO I THEN MOVED TO WILMINGTON, OHIO WHERE I ATTENDED WILMIIGTON COLLEGE, FROM WHICH I WAS GRADUATES WITH AN A.B. DEGREE. MT PRESENT HOME IS DELAWARE. AFTER LEAVING COLLEGE I TAUGHT TWO YEARS IN CALEDONIA. THEN I ACCEPTED A POSITION AT MARENGO, WHERE I HAVE DEEN'FOR THREE YEARS. DURING VACATION I HAVE TAKEN SOME ADDITIONAL TRAINING AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. RENICE LANSING I NAS DORN IN SCIOTO COUNTY CLOSE TO THE JACKSON-SCIOTO COUNTY BORDER, MOST OF MY LIFE HAS BEEN SPENT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE. JACKSON, OHIO HAS DEEN MY HOME FOR THE PAST I7 YEARS. A . I ATTENDED OHIO UNIVERSITY FOR si YEARS AFTER WHICH I RECEIVED MY H.O. DEGREE. IT NAS IN THE FOLLOWING SUMMER, THAT I ATTENQED OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. MARENGO ms MY FIRBT'TEABH' ING POSITION, WHICH HAS DEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR ME. I HAVE ENJOYED IT VERY MUCHL I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. THEODORE KITTEL I VAS DORN IN CHATFIELD, OHIO. MY FATHER WAS A MINISTER, SO I FOLLOHED HIM TO HOOD- LAND, MICHIGAN LAHRENCEDURGH, INDIANA, BELLAIR, MARYLAND, A SUBURB OF BALTIMORE, AND DAVESVILLE VIRGINIA. LATER AS A TEACHER I D14 A LITTLE GLOBE'TROTTING OF MY OWN' AND HAVE w0R'EO IN KEYSTDNE, VEST VIRGINIA, ASHTADULA HARBOR, OHIO, LORDSTOWN, OHIO, FOWLER, OHIO, KINSMAN, OHIO, COLUMDUS, OHIO AND FINALLY IN MARENGO. FOR MY CO MON SCHOOL EDUCATION THROUGH THE EIGHTH GRADE I ATTENDED ONE'RO0M SCHOOLS IN MICHIGAN AND INDIANA. ALSO IN INDIANA I ATTENDED HIGH SCH OL FOUR YEARS, MAKING A FIVE-MILE TRIP EACH MORNING AND EVENING FOR THIS PRIVIDEGE EITHER ON FOOT, BICYCLE, WUGGY OR THUMD. THEN FOUR YEARS OF OF COLLEGE AT CAPITAL INIVERSITY, AND FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OF GRADUATE WORK IN CAPITAL UNIVERSITY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTS- BURGH AND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. IN ADDITION TO THIS TRAINING I HAVE THE EDUCATION NHICH COMES FROM PITCHING HAY AND WHEAT, AND GARDENING ESTATES IN SUMMER VACATIONS. AND FROM THE BOYS AND GIRLS VHO HAVE GONE TO SCHOOL TO ME, I HAVE LEARNED THE MOST VALUADLE LESSON THAT THE NORLD Or T0- MORROV WILL BE A FINE WORLD IN WHICH TO LIVE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PROMISING YOUNG I PEOPLE IN OUR SCHOOLS TO-DAY. IN THIS GROUP I LIKE TO INCLUDE THE MARENGO CLASS OF Iiddui FACULTY PICTURES MR, KITTEL MR. ONNALD MR, LANSING MRO HIPPENSTEEL MISS STEPHENS MR, MCMEEKEN MISS THOMAS MISS MYERS MRS. PORTER MISS VAUGHN MISS WINSDOR MRSU CHASE
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