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Clover HillSchoolAReunionCLOVER HILLTheheld recently for former teachers and students of the Clover HillSchool, which was in operation from 1836 to 1958. attracted morethan 250 people.The oldest man attending was C. E. Propst, who had done someof the carpentry work on thebrick school building constructed in 1915. Attending from the greatest distance were Miss Sarah Mil-with skepticism.However, the first one-room Clover Hill School managed to attract about 20 or 30 pupils of all ages each year. The school term was only four months long in thebeginning, but classes were heldeight hours a day.At the time, the need for separate high school facilities was being stressed, but Clover Hill managed to retain at least one year of high school courses until1941.Property EnlargedBy 1892. there was a need for larger and more modern facilities. A lot of little over an acre wasler of Jacksonville, Fla., a for-1 mer teacher, and Mr. and Mrs.Innovations in the school through the years included a school lunch program in the late 1930's, the building of a brick cafeteria in 1945 and the additionNorman Long and family of Indianapolis, Ind.Master of ceremonies for the$32of indoor toilets in 1954. a two-room I But the end of Clover Hillafternoon program was Mrs. Wil-da Shifflett. Roscoe Knicely led group singing. Several selections were sung by the Spring Creek Quartet, composed of David Shir key. Ed Shickel, Russel Baylorand Mr. Knicelv.frame building was erected, and the first one room building was dragged up to the back of it by teams of horses to provide more classroom space.The new school had only one major drawback, a site so rocky that all attempts to clear it were failures until the day the school ceased to be.School was approaching even as the last improvement was being made. The seventh grade was moved to Dayton. The school was reduced to three rooms. Anew school to serve Briery Branch and Clover Hill was built at Ot-tobine. and in 1958, the 72 year history of the Clover Hill Schoolwas ended.Services HeldHighlights of the program were a memorial service conducted for1905Clover Hill Academy and offered high school courses in German,dead teachers by the Rev. S. D Click, recognition of teachers present and the presentation of a school history compiled by Ber-nelle Hill.I^atin, French, Greek, solid geometry, spherical trigonometry andAccording to Mr. Hill, the Clover Hill School was constructedduring the first year of the free school program in Virginia. Prior to 1886. he said, education hadastronomy. The difficult curriculum was given to offset the scar-Two Local MarinesIn Mediterraneancity of institutes of higher learning for training of teachers.Students Attractedbeen a function of the church, andthe “free” schools were regardedThe academy attracted studentsl from several nearby communities, and the compulsory education law of 1911 increased the influx. InTwo Rockingham County Marines are in the Mediterraneanwith Marine Battalion LandingTeam 1-fi the mobile amphibious ground-strike force of the Sixth Fleet.1915, a larger brick structure was built to meet the need.They are Sgt John L. Gangwer, son of Mrs. Ethel M. Gangwer of Rt. 3, Harrisonburg and Pfc Ronald E. Kipps, son of Mr and Mrs. Galen S. Kipps of Rt. 2,T .in vil 1*»
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Mon, Aug 05, 1963
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