Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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The Nineteen Hundred and Forty-eight Reveille is respectfully dedicated to Mr. Gor¬ don R. Kingery whose untiring efforts as ad¬ viser have produced this year s book. The editor dedicates this book to his friend in ap¬ preciation of his service as adviser and teacher. The staff likewise express their appreciation for the pleasant cooperation that has existed throughout the planning of the current volume. Seven

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Foreword Let ' s go to the circus! And where can one find a better circus than at Newark High School—the greatest show on earth? The members of the 1948 annual staff an¬ swered this guestion, ' ' Nowhere! ' ' and pro¬ ceeded to produce this year ' s annual with that very theme in mind, Newark High School—The Greatest Show on Earth! To portray the various phases of school life as a parallel to the phases of circus life was an amusing task, and those on the annual staff hope that this year ' s light-hearted theme gives others as much pleasure as it gave them to work on the 1948 Reveille.

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After serving in the field of education for fifty consecutive years, Oren Jones Barnes retired from active school work at the end of the summer-school term in July, 1947, only to meet death as a result of OREN JONES BARNES complications following an opeiation. Throughout his educational career he maintained that schools weie established foi children, and no group of any kind should be allowed to interfere with their administration. Mi. Baines was born in a log house northeast of Newark. He worked his way through col¬ lege and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan with the Bachelor of Science degree. He did graduate study at Columbia and Cornell Universities. He taught thiee years in ungraded Licking County schools. He then went to Pennsylvania where he taught for six years in the State Normal School at Mansfield and later was principal at the Westchester High School, Pennsylvania, for five years. He came to Newark in 1911. Here he served as principal of Newark High School for seven years and as superintendent of Newark schools for fifteen years. Retiring from the superin¬ tendency, he taught an additional fourteen years in the high school. Further, he taught one summer at Wooster College and fifteen summers in Newark. In 1911 he initiated the Reveille. In 1913 he established the first playground, now known as White Athletic Field. During his superintendency, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson junior high schools, the gymnasium, the industrial arts building, and Cherry Valley school were built. In his fifty years as educator, Mr. Barnes was absent only eleven days. He died on Octo¬ ber 29, 1947. ght