I've gotten several comments on the two postings that I've made on Onondaga Valley Academy. I didn't know much about it except that my father had gone there. My mother found the items recently, my father was somewhat of a packrat and didn't throw much away. I have one more article about OVA, from the Syracuse Herald-American in 1965, that I won't transcribe for copyright reasons. In that year OVA closed as a high school and the building became an elementary school. One interesting item is that E. Stewart Powelsland, who was mentioned in both of my earlier postings, became OVA principal in 1925 and was still principal there when it closed in 1965. I wondered about the name of the OVA student newspaper, "The Shew-Box", until I noticed that one of the teachers was "Miss Shew". I assume that she was the paper's advisor. The printing quality is rather surprising for a high school newspaper, especially for 1938. There are a dozen photographs. It is Vol. I No. 28 so it must have been the first year that it was published. I wasn't aware of my father, Francis (Frank) Welch, being involved with his high school newspaper but I wasn't surprised. He was later editor-in-chief of the Niagara University student newspaper. He worked part time as a reporter for most of his adult life, 17 years as the Brockport correspondent for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and later for several small Brockport-area newspapers at different times.