Northwest High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Canal Fulton, OH)

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Nine score and three years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation. Five years ago, our educational fathers brought forth in this County of Stark a new school district, conceived in the hope and dedicated to the purpose of a better education for us, the students. The Superintendents of the two merging schools were Mr. William S. Stinson of Clinton and Mr. William H. Knight of Canal Fulton. Officers of the Board of Education were Mr. Don FI. McMillen as President, Mr. C. J. McMullen as Vice- President, and Mr. Walter Schroeder as clerk. Other members of the Board included Mr. Wilbur Fellmeth, Mr. Carl Smith, and Mr. Randall Kurtz. The second year of our school was a most eventful one. Mr. Harry L. Pelley became the executive head of the new school district with Mr. Robert C. Ketter as principal of the high school. It was one day that year, during the third period, that Mr. Pelley announced that the Board of Education had purchased forty acres of land, located midway between the two communities. In the next few years, he said, we would see quite a change on that hill. As time went on, there was a distinct change in the newly acquired land. Giant machinery was brought in to level the hill. The men worked tirelessly to get the ground ready for the building. The photography class took many pictures, as things progressed, and puc them on the bulletin board in the old high school. The following year we moved into the new building. All available trucks were used to bring things here. It was very much like an adventure. Each day something new would be added to the rooms, whether it was a new piece of furniture, a new filing cabinet, or new draperies. The Board of Education was.fflAcfe 8 of-Mr. C. J. McMullen a Mr. Don H. McMillen as Vice-President,’ and Mr. Frank Crawford as clerk, members included Mr. J. Stanley Shoqdel, Mr. Randall Kurtz, and Mr. Richard Reigli On November 12, 1956, a great event was held in our new building. This was the day on which we held the dedication. Mr. Robert Manchester, who was president of the State Board of Education, was the guest speaker. In those five years Northwest High School has been active in scholarship, band, and athletics. Our band has received consecutive superior ratings, our basketball team has been runner-up in county tournaments two years, and several students have won district honors in scholarship and a few have won state honors. Perhaps the world little notes what we have done here but it is for us, the students, to be dedicated to fulfill the hopes of the two communities in their sacrifice of time, money, and effort.

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Mrs. Ada Sickler Mrs. Margaret Turnbaugh MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL Mr. Howard Lindeman Mr. Clarence Turnbaugh CAFETERIA PERSONNEL

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CANAL FULTON Arman's Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips Art's Barber Shop Bloomfield Chevrolet Burton's Department Store Canal Castings Company Clay's Park Cuthbert Jewelry Deltha's Variety Store Denison Diehl and Crew Earl's Barber Shop Etling's Restaurant The Exchange Bank Company Fulton Dry Cleaning Fulton Feed and Supply Co. Fulton Pharmacy Fulton Recreation Fulton Super Market Gilcher Lumber, Inc W. E. Gilcher Lumber Company