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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Q FACULTY OF WEBSTER TOWNSHIP SCHOOL c .R .HOUSLEY, Supt . ' Bachelor of Science Degree, Bowling :ga Green State University. u f U' 0 9 'A , 1' 45? of Michigan. Master of Arts Degree, University State High School Life Certificate. Science MISS CORRINE Amos Bachelor of Science Degree, Bowling Green State Univer- sity. Elementary Certificate. 4 year State Provisional Certificate. Second and Third grades. MR. MYRON LONG Three and one half years training at Bowling Green State University. Elementary Certificate. Baseball Coach. Fifth and Sixth Grades. MISS VIRGINIA WAYMAN Bachelor of Science Degree, Bowling Green State University State High School Life Certificate. English and Latin MP. LAMAR HETRICK 'Bachelor of Science:Degree, Western State University Kalamazoo, Mich. 4 year State Provisional Certificate. Basketball Coach. Scoutmaster of the Boy Scout Teacher MISS VELMA REITZEL Two year Diploma, Bowling Green State University. State Life Certificate. First and Second grades. MISS JOYCE PARK Bachelor of Science Degree, Bowling Green State University Elementary Certificate. 4 year State Provisional Certificate. Fourth and Fifth Grades. MR. CHARLES A. CLARK Bachelor of Science Degree, Bowling Green State University State High School Life Cer- tificate. Mathematics and Science. MISS ROBERTA KROUSE Bachelor of Science Degree, Bowling Green State University 4 year State Provisional Certificate. ' Music and Home Economics, S.. Industrial Arts and Social Science.