Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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EPIDEMICS There is no use in talking, something always seems a-balking When ive try to run our school upon a schedule. It 's one thing or another that is ever bound to smother All our optimistic hopes just something dreadful. The flu: you will remember, by the middle of December. Just three years ago. had hit us quite a wallop. Eight Weeks of idle waiting, soo11 became most aggravating As we wished to see our methods new develop. Since then. bug. germ or bacilli, found in Mary. Tom or lVillie, Our attendance has kept sometimes below normalg Diptheria. small-pox fever. tonsilitis, measles, never Seem to tire of feasting on us beings carnal. An epidemic now. though.. is beginning to itself show Through the machinations of one, Danny Cupidg Seven of our lady teachers he's directing toward the preachers, Caring little for his actions. wise or stupid. Departments all will suffer from the acts of this young duifer- General Science. Latin. Business Forms and Spanish, English. French and History. and the Shorthand mystery- Does he hope our whole fine faculty to banish? We should hardly have objected. if he simply had selected Just a few men teachers as a faint relief. True. of them there are not many who have side-stepped matrimony William E.. Charles. Daniel and our Chief. You see, when girls get married. they quite frequently are carried Right away to homes of comfort and of bliss: But men may choose their wives and stay with us all their lives, VVhich would leave our teaching force just as it is. 110

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is iii? Eg on au, i l aIIJiJ jill. bprague imp' H Mr. Spraguc was horn on a fHl'l11 ncar Miilillcvillc, Michigan. A fcw years latcr hc. with his parcnts, niorcd to thc villaprc of NVaylan1l and thcrc hc received his f'l6Il1tfl1lHl'y and high school education. After his graduation from high school, hc taught in thc rural schools and thcn bccainc principal of the high school in his honic town. After thrcc ycars in NVaylan1l, hc wcnt to Saginaw to lN,'COlllt' principal of thc John Moore school in that city. His next work was in Frankt'ort, Michigan. as supcrintenflcnt of schools. ln thc fall ot' 15113 hc joinccl thc tcaching: staff of NVoomlwar4l Manual Training School and since- that time he has hccn onc ot' thc niost loyal anrl ctlicicnt workcrs for a higrg:-r anel a better Vvooilwartl. Too inuch cannot ho saiil ot' thc strcngth ot' charactcr ol' a nian who hattlcs and hattlcs successfully against omlclsg anal thc story of Mr. Spra,2'uc's S1l'l1gl',Q'l6 for an cilucation is an inspiration to cvcry hoy and girl who strircs to attain thc,-ir iilcals. XVhcn Mr. Sprague- cntcrcil thc Ypsilanti Statc Normal School in 1906, hc hail wry littlc l110110y anil was past thc agc of thc avcragc collcgc stuclcnt, hut hc hail a hounrllcss mlctcriuination to succccml. Bs-cause of the in-ci-ssity ot' carning: his way tln'ougg'h school, it took hiin tivo ycars to ilo the four ycar courscg hut whcn in -lunc. 1911, hc rcceircil his ilcgrcc, no other studcnt of his class hail lllUl't' truly carncil that honor. ln 1916 hc rcccirccl thc ilcgrce of Maste-r of Arts from thc 'Folcclo l'niycrsity. M r. Spraguc has a ge-nial. whole-soulcil spirit ot' optiinisni that has endeared hiin not only to his fellow tcachcrs. hut to thc lunulrcils of stuwlcnts that have come unrlcr his dircction. His is thc spirit ot' etcrnal youth. llc looks through thc cya-s ot' thc stuilcnts and Sj'lllllHlll0lll'Hlly sccs thc world as they see it. llis wisc anml gc-ncrous counscl, his unswcrring ilcvotion to duty, his faith in God and man. all cncouragc thc stutlcnts of 1Voo4lwar1l to nohlcr. intcllcctual and spiritual achicvcmcnt. 4