McGuffey Foundation High School - Reflector Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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LREFLECTKHI FOR 1940 THE YEAR AT WILLIAM HOLMES MCGUFFEY HIGH SCHOOL, OXFORD, OHIO JUNE, 1940 VOLUME XIX , . .......- 1w,.q9..fE.L , , W-,

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EDITORS BUSINESS MANAGER Maurene Fields - Tom McFa1l Anastasia Minas MCGUFFEY SCHOOL

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HISTORY The William lVlcGuffey School was founded in 1910 by Dr. J. W. Heckert, present director of the institution and Professor of Education at Miami University. The school was founded as a laboratory in which the students of Miami's School of Education could practice teaching. At first, the entire school occupied only the south-west wing of the present building. The high school, not a four year course until 1912, had an enrollment of thirty-five. The school was named for William Holmes lVlcGuffey, who taught English at Miami for a decade starting in 1825. He is famous as the author of the lVlcGuffey Readers. McGuffey's first principal was Mr. Schwartz, who is now professor of history at Bowling Green, Ohio. In 1915 Mr. Charles S. Bunger re- placed him and held that position until his death in 1935. For the year following, Dr. Ober Slotterbeck was the acting principal. Dr. J. H. Coleman, the present principal, assumed his duties in 1937. Besides being an excellent training school for teachers, lVlcGuffey pre- pares its students for admission to any state university without taking entrance examinations.