OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - TEACHING CERTIFICATE:  Ruth A. BROWN
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In the Name and by the Authority of THE STATE OF OHIO

The State Board of School Examiners hereby issued this 
Kindergarten and First ad Second Grades Life Certificate
to           Ruth A. Brown

Who has been found to possess the Requisite Scholarship and who has exhibited
satisfactory evidence of Good Moral Character, Ability and Experience as a
Kindergarten and First and Second Grades Elementary School Teacher.
This certificate of Qualifications shall supersede the necessity of any and
all other elementary examinations by any Board of Examiners and shall be valid
in all the Elementary Schools of any School District in the State of Ohio.
Dated at Columbus, Ohio this 13th day of June, nineteen hundred twenty-eight.

Issued as Checked:  On State Provisional Certificate
# 375
Signed:       H. N. Hodson, President
               E. W. Howey (?), Clerk
               Chas. Baithelmich (?)
               Rachel S. Ruff
               B. O. Skinner
                         State Board of Examiners

J. L. Clifton, Superintendent of Public Instruction

Subscriber Notes:  Ruth Armstrong Brown graduated from Dr. Mary Law's
Kindergarten Training School in Toledo, 1909.  Upon graduation, she taught in
kindergarten in Toledo for four years.  In 1914, she moved to Wauseon (Fulton
Co.) to teach first grade where she served faithfully for 29 years, until
retiring in 1942.

Lovingly submitted by your great-niece who followed your footsteps and is
continuing the teaching tradition of the BROWN's:  Maggie Brown Moerdyke



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