Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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Qfired l l .mm L THOBA P. MACDONAGH During the summer of 1956 Miss Thora P. MacDonagh annouced her retirement from a long and suc- cessful teaching career. Miss MacDonagh attended Oxford College for Women and received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Denison University. Before she Went to Lincoln junior High School she taught elementary school. Miss MacDonagh was assistant principal to Miss Mary Kilpatrick at the East Main Street School and also assistant principal to Miss Gertrude Avey at the old Fourth Street School. Then she became principal at Hazelwood School until she Went to Lincoln in 1929. She was assistant principal at Lincoln to Miss Mary Kilpatrick until Miss Kilpatrick retired in 1932. Miss MacDonagh served as principal at Lincoln from 1932 until 1956. In 1945 she received her Master of Arts Degree from The Ohio State University. Miss MacDonagh is still a very active person. She has been a lifelong member of the Trinity Epis- copal Church. She is a member of Pi Lambda Theta fNational Honorary Education Sororityj, Delta Kappa Gamma CNational Teacher's Honorary Associationj, Business and Professional Women's Club, and Research Club. She is on the board of the YWCA, and a member and on the board of the American As- sociation of University Women. The work that Miss MacDonagh has performed will long be remembered and appreciated by the people of East Newark, for a 'person of such a strong character as she implants her mark upon any com- munity at any time. 10

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glfired Teaching has been loads of funf' This statement by Mrs. Harry Rexroth at the close of her regular teaching career was the theme of her whole teach- ing philosophy. Mrs. Rexroth loved her classes and her students loved her. Peo- ple looked forward to her instruction be- cause it was a pleasant experience. Laughter with her students was one of her most successful techniques. And her MARY lX'1ILDRED CHAYMONDJ REXROTH students learned through this tech- nique. But Mrs. Rexroth had a very personal side to her teaching interest also. Many were the girls who came to her for personal counseling, many were the times that Mrs. Rexroth loaned from her own purse to help a needy student. She was truly a dedicated teacher, but she was a realistic one. And her students and associates loved her for it. Mary Haymond graduated in the Class of 1912 at Newark High School. With great pride she re- calls that she wrote for the infant Heueille of those days. She took normal work under Superintendent Wilson Hawkins after her graduation. In 1913 she started her teaching career at Maholm School in the fifth grade. Thereafter she taught at Hudson, Fourth Street, and Roosevelt Schools where she taught Latin in the junior high school. She came to the high school in the fall of 1932 to teach Latin and French. ln February of 1938 she resigned her position to become Mrs. Hairy Rexroth. At the death of Miss Helen Lavin in October of 1949, Mrs. Rexroth returned to full-time duties where she remained as the successful teacher of business English and the adviser of Y-Teens in 1955 and 1956. In her retirement, however, Mrs. Rexroth will not rust out. In her own thinking she will start a new chapter in her life and experience it to the fullest of her abilities. And her friends and associates wish her many joyous years of a rich life. 9

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In gmiemnriam Preparing the evening meal on May 17, Mrs. Paul Ben- nington, home economics i teacher at Newark High School, became quite ill suddenly. A Granville physician who happened to be passing the Bennington home administered first aid, however, by the time the regular attending phy- sician had arrived, Mrs, Bennington had passed away. Mrs. Bennington had taught school all day, Thursday, Around 12:30 in the morn- the seventeenth, but had planned to be absent the following day to attend the funeral of a friend of the family. Mrs. Bennington came to Newark High School in the fall of 1953. Here she was loved and respected by her many friends and students because of her pleasant disposition and coopera- tive attitude. She truly has left a place in the hearts of all who knew her. , P I. V A ' 1, -wi '-352 , 99 ' ..I'. . 1. 1, ft - sas.. ,- 22225 'E ' ff I 4 3' 1 3 5 :QI . ' I , 1 ' ::zg:.:...,.:':' 1 ij ' is ing of March 31, Lindel Lee York, sophomore, lost his life in a serious automobile accident in front of the Dairy Queen store on West Church street. At Newark Hospital doctors tried valiantly to save the life of Lindel, but at two o'clock X he passed away. Lindel was the life of his home room. He was always laughing and seemed to get a big kick out of life. Greatly admired by his friends, he will be sorely missed by his school companions.