Troy Township High School - Trojan Yearbook (Coolville, OH)

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THE 1938 TROJAN TROgIANg 3 PAGE 26

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THE 1938 TROJAN 6TO OUR “MISS LAURA The graduating classes of 1938 and 1939 wish to dedicate this page as a tribute to Mrs. G. R. Guilder, or as sne is known by everyone, “ Miss Laura. ” This is “ Miss Laura’s ” last year as a teacher. In May she will retire after thirty-six years of service during which time she has not missed more than two months of school. •Miss Laura” started teaching at Success, Ohio, in 1902. She next taught at Tuppers Plains, Ohio, from 1903 to 1904. From there she went to Or bison, Ohio, where she taught until 1907. Then she went back to Tuppers Plains where she taught until she came to Coolville in 1908. For thirty years she has devoted her time to school children of Coolville. During “Miss Laura’s teaching experience here she has taught under the supervision of twelve principals—Alex Root, E. G. Gibson, Clyde White, G. S. Nease, Mary Agnes Stewart, L. M. Chapman, John Paynter, Lucy Belle Evans, Clarence Gillilan, Kenneth Ray, Samuel Pailet, and A. Z. Penrose. Some of the first to graduate trorn Coolville High School who started to school to Mrs. Gunder at Tuppers Plains, Ohio, were Nora Kincade, 1913; Dale Reed, 1917; Garrett Reed, 1918; Bertha Keller, 1914; and Clyde Parrish, 1918. Three of the present grade school teachers in the Coolville schools, Margaret Conklin, Mrs. Frances Smith Runion, and Mr. Leo Baker, started to school in ‘ Miss Laura’s ” room. They have the upper grades now, but their first grade teacher, who is loved and will be remembered by so many children of this district, continues in the early work of the A. B. C’s. Only she says she doesn’t teach them as she used to do. As teaching methods have evolved, ‘‘Miss Laura ” has evolved with them, and she is considered one of the best primary teachers in Athens County. (We think she is the best.) “ Miss Laura ” doesn’t punish, as we usually think of the word. She has a philosophy which twinkles from her eyes. Children want to do things for her because she is so jolly, and so understanding. She maintains discipline by love rather than the yardstick — and it works. Seventeen members of the graduating classes, (some of whose pictures are given below as they looked when they went to “ Miss Laura ”), began their school careers under the sympathetic guidance of our first and second grade teacher. And now, to that lady— “ our Miss Laura ” — who has helped to lay the firm foundation of so many educations, and, who has anchored them with wise instruction and loving guidance, we, the graduating classes, and other Troy Township pupils as well, extend our most grateful thanks for service well done, and our best wishes for her future. PAGE 25

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