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In appreciation of his cheerful spirit and kindly ways during all the years we have known him, and for his outstanding ability, we, the Staff, honorably and nobly dedicate this 1940 publication of The Meteor to our friend and principal, Mr. 0. J. Pifer.
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The building that stood on the ground where this one stands was a one-story,two-room frame building and was built about 1900. It was moved across the creek and used for a garage and later burned. It stood north of the present lo- cation of the school. Previous to that,there was a two-story, two-room school built about 1880; and it stood on the lot where John Sem- mler's house now stsnds but was afterwards torn down. The building used before that one stood on Tom Irwin's lot. It was a two-story frame building, and was later used for a dwelling and it afterwards burned. krs. Fred Seely taught in the frame building. Some of the teachers in the other building were Harry Lewis, who afterwards became a lawyer; George heiss; George Hackett, who is the father of Lowell Kackett; Clyde Castle, who hss been a county official and later went to Swanton to be a county surveyor;and John Lme- han, who is in the bank at Swanton. The school was composed of two rooms, the upper and the lower. The lower room had the younger children and a woman teacher. The upper room had the older children and had a man teacher. Ed Hastings, who became a lawyer and is prac- ticing in Oklahoma, was also a teacher there. Some of the other teachers were Sebastian kauchley; Lishe Biehl, an aunt of Richard Biehl; Lena Sieman; and kyra Cagwin,an aunt of Dr. Harold Heffron. These all taught in the first few buildings. SUPERINTENDENT kr. P. D. Cannavan got his early education in southern Indiana. He graduated from Oakland City College with a B.S. in Education. He later received his k. S. in Education from Indiana University. He came to ketamora from Bettsville, Ohio, in 1934, to be our superintendent. P R I N C I P A I kr. 0. J. Pifer has always lived around ketamora. He went to school at Iuulberry, Blissfield High School,and keta- mora High School,where he graduated in 1928. He later grad- uated from Defiance College with an A. B. in Education. In 1933 he came to ketamora, where he taught trigonometry,solid geometry, 8th history, 7th and 8th Arithmetic, and Vvorld History. Later he became principal, and still holds that position.
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