A photograph of the school building in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where Robert Woodside received his education from 5th grade through high school graduation in 1922. In his memoir, My Life and Town (1979), Judge Woodside pointed out that the building was used as a hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic. These additional remarks were also provided about his high school days:
I didn’t like or dislike school; I accepted it. I seldom missed, was never late, was a fair student. It never snowed too deep, rained too hard, got too cold or hot to close the school. We had the largest class to be graduated up to that time… thirty-two. In high school we had a friendly, closely-knit class and enjoyed ourselves.
The boys had a club, the D. P. S. (Dauphin County, where we lived; Perry County, where we camped; and Susquehanna, the river between) and the girls had the F. F. S., its meaning then a deep secret, but later revealed as Fun, Frolic and Secrets. We had no thought of being exclusive or feeling superior, nor did we sense any resentment of those not members, although as I look back I suppose some of our schoolmates must have felt rejected. Generally, there was a feeling of friendliness, a sense of belonging, and a spirit of cooperation which extended throughout the school.
______________________________________
School photo from My Life and Town.
Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.