Dad's 102nd seems a fitting days to talk schools. Bob Slade,of Batavia,Asst Supt of Clermont Co Schools ,was one of us Local history nuts, being most active in the 1960's an 1970'. Schools were of particular interest to Bob,and likely he published a book,or booklet. What Bob,did,for sure, was have his collectors of old pictures,like my mother, scattered around the county, and Bob made his rounds, gathering those old photo's, and then publishing them in either\or[?] Batavia's 'Clermont Sun" and "Clermont Courier" newspaper. And,microfilms of those papers should be [are?] in the Doris Wood Public Library,Batavia. Often,it was a photo of a 1 room school,and it's students on the front step, and,often,they are ,largly,named. Also,in the 1970 era,John Armleader's branch of the 'Clermont Co Historical Soc' [sic] republished Theiry and Mitchell's [1891?] History-Atlas of Clermont, and Bob Slade nearly doubled the original's size with old pictures. Again, 1 room schools,often with students named. We have had other collectors of old photos, and publishers of same. Richard Disney, Mr Smiley, our own John Emmitt, O.H.Sharp, to name a few. It took 20-30 years of settlement before Ohio had a public school law,locating 1 room schools within a couple mils of everyone. And the villages had larger schools, and ,long term, Parker's Academy,and Augusta Ky college. My great grandfather,John F.M.Ely took a business course at Farmer's College,Cllege Hill, nw Cincinnati, and Lebanon,Oh had a Normal school. Ely's NEW RICHMOND store went bankrupt in the Panic if 1873, and he hd a break-down. My grandmother, then thru the 8th grade at New Richmonf,became the family supporter at that age,teaching at Anti-Bantam brick 1 room school [Bill Plank's] . Ely Hill just told me Bethel schools became consolidated in 1936 [8?] and his dad moved from Bantam 2 room,to Bethel,where his name livs yet on EBEN C HILL Elementary. Maybe Markie Dunn has a story how the Dunn brothers got from Nicholsville to Bethel High. Larry Jegley's Mom,Janie, lived to remote to commute,and so she lived with Dr Wm Eberly Thompson to go to high school. My mother was so lucky as to have an electric RR [STREETCAR and baggage ca] pa st her door. My dad.commuting to Williamsburg schools to teach, picked up high school students en route, like George Musgrove and Rodney Davis' mom. So,you could walk to the 1 room school,but getting to higher grades was a problem. 1870 CENSUS OF Brown Co shows my wife's Kirkpatrick's farmig south of the Germanic Arnheim, but it also shows a 2nd household,of their children,headed by a late teens daughter,living in Georgetown-surely for schooling. Carl Thompson's 1970 era historyon Brown Co includes the 1830 school census of several,but not all Brown Co townships. Census gives the adult's name,and no. of children betewwn 5-16 including zero. There was 1 1 room school n e of Williamsburg,where almost all the students were Waits. Anyway, there are,today,online OHCLERMO-L and OHBROWN-L those that started out in 1 room schools, pre school buses. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.