The York Gazette reported that when a favorite teacher was let go, seemingly as a cost-cutting measure, Codorus Township High School students took matters into their own hands.
The teacher didn't let matters rest either, and the case ended up on court. Even then the Codorus Township school board didn't exactly rush to follow the court order.
The article reads:
Small Field, the athletic field for York High, was the subject of a recent post. I checked further into the files at York County Heritage Trust and found that the gift was a real surprise to the York City school board.
Click here to see the previous post and the January 1916 drawing of the meadow.
A November 1915 newspaper article quotes the letter offering the field for the benefit of the children of York:
January 1916 drawing of Small Field by T. Tyrrell Heiges, Engr.
A recent letter to the Editor in the York Daily Record mentioned Small Athletic Field, which is owned by the York City School District and site of York High sports contests.
An undated clipping from the York Daily announces the gift of the site to the York school district:
50 years ago this week, Judith Brown, a 17-year-old senior at Kennard-Dale High School, was declared the winner of York County's apple baking dessert contest. She competed against five other county high school students: Nancy Jones, Spring Grove, runner-up; Pauline Landis, Susquehannock; Harriett Shelley, Northeastern; Georgia Weigle, Central; and (remember--this is 1957) Donald Stambaugh, Northern. Even though he didn't win, Donald should be commended for entering a cooking contest in those more gender-rigid times.
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