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.Qtfai!1 UiI wpic«thtePi(Part Nine in a Series of 10)That I forgot to mention thatbefore we entered the high school in 1884 we had ,been sent to two other buildings for the sixth to seventh grades. The first was on _Whittlesey Avenue on the site ofthe present fire department headquarters. the lot of which extend Red through to Linwood Ave., the! site of which is now the police headquarters: the seventh grade was located in what was called the Hester Street building, which is now the site of the Fisher-Nor-walk Company. We were in the Whittlesey Avepue building during the year 1882 and in the Hester,.. Street building the year of 1883.! . and in the Latimer building the fall and winter of 1883 and 1884. In September of 1884 we had said | goodbye to the grade schools and began a new life as freshmen in the high school. In our last grade school. wh*ch was the eighth in the Latimer building, we had one of the best of all teachers, the late. William G Scroggie. Mr. Scroggie I £ was a strict disciplinarian, a man ‘s with a violent temper, but one who knew how to teach and to maintain order. Most of us stood in awe of him as ho was known to not spare the rod Mr. Scroggie was a Scotchman from Aberdeen In the fall when we entered thehigh e were pleased atat our class, the• as the first one torolling in the then uilding.”of 1888 for a series iks. the superinten*. Comings. sug-wnlt;UFinher that I be ternPlt;p!HtifittNeldiCu;m* |wn from thei1*'ter was then the'(*'wqoihattN1FBoard of Educa-rawn and put to *'s mill. When the • came father in* le had arranged military school j discipline might f(•rank’* business.tllowing Septem* fine school on fudson River. 1? in that school enter college . „.ci my high school ciass was graduated in 1888 1 was]-* not among those present. I entered Harvard in 1891 where I spent four'.P happy years. In 1940. fifty - two years after the class had graduated. the Board of Education voted me a diploma as “of the class of 1888,” That year I had been asked to be the ‘guest speaker at the Alumni meeting and banquet for all alumni of the Norwalk schools About 300 were present and at that affair the board gave me the long awaited, though not expected, diploma Needless to say. I value it above whatever other achievements” I may have attained.n v* ilt;
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 08, 1957
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