Webster Township High School - Web Yearbook (Scotch Ridge, OH)

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I 3, I HISTORY OF WEBSTER SCHOOL DISTRICT i vb' QV Z-. ter. Then came the little learning. my With the establishment of this territory as a state, a public school system was begun. At first a few children gathered in homes to re- ceive schooling. Soon came the log schoolhouse which was enough, until home life demanded bet- red brick seat of How well our parents remember them,--heated by old stoves and yards of stovepipe, carrying needed heat up to a far-away ceiling,--floors which the freezing point,--the water pail, kept one's feet near with its dipper,--a few square feet of black board, a globe and the hickory pointer. In Webster Township, the district schoolhouses were built approximately two miles apart. There were nine originally. They were known as the East Settlement School at the corner of Mr. August Busdeker's farm,--the Scotch Ridge School, now the gymnasium,--the Ickes School at the corner of the River Road and the Shanks Road,--the Zimmer- man School, on the Bert Zimmerman Road,--the Webster School, near Webster Church, the Browntown School on the Devilhole Road,--the Stewart School at the corner of the Dunbridge Road and Route 25,--the Walker School, on the Walker Road,--the Hebler School, on the Hebler Road, and the Hagar School, corner of Devil Hole and Martin Roads. One of the first steps toward consolidation was the abandonment of the Ickes School. Some of the pupils went to the Bert Zimmerman schoolg others came to the Scotch Ridge School. Shortly before the building of our school, the East Settlement school closed. These old school buildings knew were repainted when there was a pairs,--otherwise little was done to places. Teachers were often poorly which our parents great need for re- make them beautiful prepared--very few even knowing the meaning of a UDegreeN. As many plans of teaching were used as there teachersg thus only a small percentage of pupils had higher education. There has been progress of our American our consolidated school. Machine Age, much of the rural homes an incentive to strive for a no greater influence upon the than that effect of Also, with the coming of the rural population migrated to the cities and fewer large farms developed in place of the many small farms. Thus the consolidated school became a necessity. .

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0 ' DEDICATION In appreciation of his constant endeavor to raise our school standards, his effort and ad- vice extended to make this book a success and his wonderful endurance and patience in' leader- ship shown throughout our high school life, we dedicate 'THE WEBH to our superintendent, Mr. C. R. Housley. The Web Staff

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