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IIO!ftf(oSixth In a Series of 10That after the primary years promotions followed to the second grade where Miss Eliza Taintor . presided and our school lives te- ^ pan to change. We were quarter- '* ed in a room large enough to accommodate two grades. Of course with two diferent grades in thesame room, the other grade beingthird graders, acquaintance beganwith older children. Lillie Benedict. Harriet Rood, Flora Ward, Adaline Ford, Fannie Flinn, Roll-ie Broadwell. son of the Methodist pastor. Mary Foster. Fred Houghton, who became a Baptist minister. Del Cleveland, Sam Williams, Florence Kellogg. Harriet Burgess. Frank D Read, who went to the Naval Acidemy and became a Navy officer, Anna Wilsey, Mary Lawrence, Exelma Stafford. As we passed along in the grades many older ones came to be known to us, George Stewart. Will Kellogg, Will Boughton (connected with Vassar College for m a n yl t years, Grace Evans, Achsa Park-Ip er. Edwin E. Wood. Agnes Rood. Lillian Perkins, Frank Fries. Rial Roberts, George Harrod. Bruce Kinney. Dick Knapp, Jenny Dun-C0!ir2CC1VIIbar, Hinckley Laylin. Jennie Griftfin, Walter Glaser. Cora Taber,Bessie Kubach- With one exception most of them have passed away. Almost all of the names I have 11 mentioned went to school 111 the old | f Seminary building or were among t the first to begin school life in the \ new building which was erected on 1fthe site of the old Seminary building and first used in the fall of 1KT.4 We entered the High School in the fall of 1BB4 but prior to that time, the Seminary building hadbeen demolished to make a place ' for the new Central” building. a*|! it was called. During the demolition the grades in that building had to be housed in other parts of town Most of them went to what wasI known as the Latimer house which L was then on the site of the present | ( Huron County Bank building in the center of town. Of course ourschool life was much changed, for being down in the busy marts of trade” made a considerable difference in our disciplinary life.....Too much noise and bustle, although there was not the truck traffic of today, but there was the often parades of visiting circuses or oratory 011 the Court House square.” One day the noted James G. Blaine came to town Hej had been a congressman for twenty years and was at the time of lus visit, the Republican candidate for president of the United States. An immense crowd from all over the* •Icounty was in town to greet him.J On that day there were few civil- j dren in the Latimer building They were out on the street to be a part of what was going on. The memory of that day has lingeredthroughout the years. (Continued
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Mon, Aug 05, 1957
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