Traverse City High School - Pines Yearbook (Traverse City, MI)

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He began his work there in the following- September, and in a few months had won the hearts and confidence of both students and facult}-, when, on the resig-nation of Principal Charles McKenny of the Central State Normal, the State Board of Education again showed their hig h appreciation of Mr. Grawn by electing him to succeed Prin. McKenny. He entered upon his duties as Principal of that 3 ' oung ' but vigorous institution in April last. The reception given him by the students, teachers, and citizens of Mt. Pleasant is prophetic of a long- and successful administration in this important position.

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earnitiu ' inoiu-v to pay his school exi)enses. After couiidct- iiii - his work at Yi)silanti he went to Plymouth, as Princi- pal of the ])ul lic schools, where his real career as an edu- cator beyan. For four years he tauyht in the scluiols of Plymouth with al)iiity and tlevotion. The i)e()i)le there have not forgotten him and they still turn to him for advice and counsel in educational matters. During- a part of this time he was Secretary of the Wayne County Board of School Examiners. It was during- thi.s time, also, that he began a home for himself. On Nov. :25, 18H1, he married Helen J. Blackwood of Northville, Wayne Co., who had been a student with him in the State Normal School. Thus was begun a ha]ipy home life which has grown with the years. In the fall of I 4 Mr. Grawn came to Traverse City as Sui)erintendent of her public .schools. Since that time he has labored here and grown with the growth of the city. On the presentation of two theses in Ls92 the State Nor- mal College conferred ujDon him the degree of B.Pd., and the M.Pd. was added in ls97 by the same institution. The State Teachers ' Association claimed him as its president in L 94. By hard study and frequent attendance at professional meetings of all kinds Mr. Grawn has kept himself fully up to the times. Besides being successful in school he has been very successful in business ventures, and is one of the few teachers in Michigan who can show financial results for their labors. Personall} ' Mr. Grawn is pleasant, genial, sincere. He is greatly esteemed by his patrons, teachers and pupils. His heart is warm and bright, and the generous kindness of his nature shines out from every feature of his ojien coun- tenance, and his presence is like a benediction that is not soon forgotten. In June, 1h99, Mr. Grawn was appointed Superintend- ent of the Normal College Training School at Ypsilanti-

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Cluirkis c i Horn, y A CHARLES HENRY HORN, Superintendent of the Trav- erse City Scliools. was born in a log ' house in Eaton Co., Midi.. January 0, lM(i5. Duringhis boyhood days his educational advantages were contined to a little red school house in the country district, but it was here that his ambi- tion for an education began. As he was not very strong physically, his teacher sug gested to his father the advisa- bility of sending him to a High School. His father was pleased with the suggestion, and accordingly Mr. Horn en- tered the Charlotte High School at the ag-e of sixteen, where he graduated, valedictorian of his class, in 1885. Duringf the early part of Mr. Horn ' s struggle for an education, he admits that he fell in love frec uently and des- perately. He determined, however, that he would not let any girl stand between him and an education. The re- sult was that he lost all the girls, as he would not ask them to wait for him, thinking they should take the hint without being- asked. Before finishing the High School Mr. Horn taught one term in a district school and after graduation he accepted a position as teacher in the grades at Vermontville, Mich. During the winter he was severely afflicted with the rheu- matism, so that he was obliged to give up teaching, and in the si)ring left Michigan for California, thinking that a change of climate would benefit him. Returningf from Cali- fornia much improved in health, he taught school winters and worked on the farm summers for nearly two years. About that time he was employed by the Home Missionar} ' Society, and sj)ent one summer in Dakota doing missionary work.