Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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SENIORS Carolyn Crawford Edwin Pryor JUNIORS Barbara Brookover Susan Wilkin Georgeann Penick Gordon Johnson Annual Staff ARTISTS James Gilham Richard Seiter John Love Ronald Helman Joanne McDonough PHOTOGRAPHERS Giles Smucker Gordon Johnson James Barber Richard Lippincott TYPISTS Jo Ann Bachelor Carolyn Crawford Georgeann Penick BUSINESS STAFF Geraldine Franks, Assistant Business Manager Harriett Stickle Susan Shields Mary R. Weakley Mona J. VanderHoven Betty Tripp Carole Ha e Emily Bearclshear Betty Lou Eifinger June Deeds Sue Wilkin Charlene Canter Sandra Willey Ann Dupler Sue James Donna Bingham Relva Huffman Nancy Lally AnnpBarrick Louise Jones Janet Jay Marilyn Hitchcock Ellen Flowers Tibbie Leslie Sue Taylor Karl Celfer Charlene Pound Dick Seiter Margaret Smith Bonnie Masteller Nancy Woltjen Carol Cochran Five

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ix Foreword The school year of Nineteen Hundred Forty-eight-Nineteen Hundred Forty-nine rep- resents the centennial of the establishing of public education in the city of Newark, Ohio. Before 1848 there had been schools in New- ark. One of the first schools, located on the south side of the Square in a log dwelling, was taught by Archibald Wilson, jr. Another was that near the Gault tavern, taught by Samuel English. The first house erected for school purposes was a log building on the corner of Main and Fourth Streets. Still an- other was the school of a Mr. Mills, located on Church Street just west of the Second Pres- byterian Church. Prior to 1848, however, schools for the most part were in a rudimen- tary condition. These early schools were subscription schools, which were established in some deserted cabin or barn by some in- dividual who considered himself competent, generally without preparation or examination, and constituted himself a committee of one to establish a school gud keep it according to his own ideas. ' ' On February 5, 1825, the general as- sembly passed an act empowering the school board to levy a tax of one-half mill on the dollar to be a propriated to the use of the common schoolg. All other funds coming into the hands of the school board were raised by direct taxation. When these funds were ex- hausted, schools were closed. Because of the fact that the nei hboring community of Granville had estabfished a college, Newark made greater effort to estab- lish good schools than most other towns of its size. In 1837 or 1838, a Miss Simpson estab- lished the Newark Seminary for Young Ladies. At the same time the Newark high schoolv was opened for the reception of pupils, being conducted by R. K. Nash, and controlled by a board of trustees. ' In 1848, however, an important change oc- curred. The schools were organized under what is known as the Akron Law, which be- came the foundation of the later school sys- tem in the state. On February 28, 1848, teachers and others interested in education held a meeting in the First Presbyterian Church of Newark and re- solved to organize the Education Society of Newark Township. At this meeting, a com- mittee consisting of A. H. Dennis, Isaac Smucker, and L. P. Coman was appointed to draft resolutions. After the adoption of the resolutions, the following were chosen officers of the society: the Reverend Alexander Dun- can, president, the Reverend George Den- nison and Isaac Smucker, vice-presidents, and C. P. Wilder, secretary. At a meeting of citizens interested in common schools, held at the auditoris office, july 11, 1848, a committee of twelve was ap- pointed to circulate a petition to the town council for the purpose of securing signatures of such of the qualified voters as were in favor of extending the provisions of the Akron Law to Newark. This petition received about four hundred and fifty signatures, almost an unanimous consent of the voters then within the corporation. On July 20, 1848, a notice was issued by the mayor, A. H. Caffee, that an election would be held August 12 following for the purpose of selecting six school directors for the town. This election resulted in the choice of Israel Dille, Isaac Smucker, Samuel D. King, Adam Fleck, Abner H. Dennis, and Joshua Gibbs as the first school board of Newark under the organization of the graded system. Samuel D. King was chosen president of the board, A. H. Dennis, secretary, Adam Fleek, treas- urer. On November 16, 1848, the committee ap-