Union City Times-Gazette, Thursday, August 24, 1939 Jericho School Reunion (Contributed) When the Jericho school reunions were young, along about the years 1912 - 1918, under the inspiration of Cal Shultz and Henry Peacock, and many others, large crowds attended. Today, though the attendance has dwindled, yet the spirit of the reunions is just as sweet. Those who were present were of the mind of Annie Peacock Shultz, who said a few days before the reunion, "Well, if there are only two or three there, I'll be there." And she was there with two white cakes and enough ice cream to feed a multitude. And when the time came to decide concerning a future reunion, there was a strong vote carried for a reunion next year at the same time and place. All were repaid for every effort put forth. It was a day happily spent in visiting together, eating together, listening to music and old fashioned recitations, in telling incidents of school days, in reading letters from former pupils. Those on the home base do not get such a thrill out of it all, as do those who came from a distance. Ed Chenoweth, formerly of Chicago, now of Winchester, and Ray Brumfield of Cooper's Institute, New York City, were thrilled in getting home again and in stirring talks evaluated the childhood memories of Old Jericho. Now everyone knows that Jericho was never on any map of geography; yet hundreds of people have spoken of her as though she were the cream of the earth. Ed Chenoweth thought that Jericho was a gold mine of historical significance. Interest centered around Harry Peacock's history of Jericho, as he painstakingly traveled from the early days when Indians were here until the present. The outline grew under his hands that we might see again a neighborhood of people, settling first on Old Owl creek, building homes all about with a meeting house in the midst, and school houses "scattered over the place." A Quaker people, believing that the invisible ideals of the spirit, can take flesh and blood form and pattern, and substance, visible in individual human life, and neighborhood living, no matter what the race or station of its community people be. A Quaker community trying to express its ideals in the schools, with its teachers and curriculums, upon the minds and the hearts and lives of its growing boys and girls! These Jericho boys and girls have been scattered into the various states of the Union, like autumn leaves before the winter wind with a gold mine of memories. The reunion is reaching out by these minutes of the meeting to all those pupils and teachers and parents, hoping to hear by letter or person next year. As the Jericho school was the first school in Wayne township, Harry Peacock will have a part in the reunion program August 27 [1940], at the old fairgrounds in Union City. [The location of the reunion was not given. No listing of those in attendance was provided.]