Washington Night High School - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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JAMES PERLEE CUMMINS ARIES PERLEE CUMMINS was born in West Chester, Butler County. Ohio. He was a graduate of the National Normal University, in Tiebzmun, Ohio, and was offered the Presidency of his Almallater only a short time ago. 111 his early life he taught in a number of country schools. He nae Principal of Riverside School for a period of ten years: the Same number of years in Clifton: and served in like capacity in the Twenty-sccmul District for seventeen years. This school will no longer be known as the Twenty-scconcl District, the Board of Education having honored the memory of Mr, Cumming by naming it the j, P Cummins School. He was also Well known by the county teachem. having served many years as County Examiner. He tecame our Principal i1? September, nineteen hundred and thineeni it was decreed his stay With us be short. he having passed to the greal beyond 0n the anniversary of the birth of Lincoln, the humble patriot he so dearly loved. His death came as a great shock t0 his many friends in school and church circles, He was buried at lYest Chester. the cemetery being a part of the farm owned by his father at 011C time. and he rests there, where often as a farmers youth he turned the furrow with the plow.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON BURN S while still in active service as Principal of the Washington School. He died suddenly on the afternoon of June 1.3. 1913, in his sixty- seventh year. Mr. Burns was born at Ashland, Ohio. Here he received his education in Ashland Academy and in Bethany College. Mr. Burns began teaching in this place, but soon became Professor of Science and Mathematics in Farmeris College, College Hill. 111 lSTO he was appointed Principal of the Eighteenth District, now the XYashington Schooh His long term of service here permitted him to receive as pupils children of the second. and, in some cases, the third generation of the families of the district. This ihHuence brought Mr. Burns great power and respect among all the people of the community. His death same as a personal loss to a large number of homes. Mr. Burns was instrumental in securing the opening of the XYashington Night High School. As Principal of this school during the Erst two years of its exist- ence he endeared himself to the students. The class of 1914 is glad to bear tribute to the worth of the man and the influence of the educator. 13

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FACULTY CLYDE v. ZIMMERMAN MINNIE LOUISE WILSON EMERY ELLSWORTH ELLIS Principal CARL W. BINGMAN CLIFFORD W. ELLIOTT J? MARY LOUISE PERKINS 1'- FREDERICK K. BURGHARDT