Clackamas-Lane-Marion County OR Archives Biographies.....Wakefield, B. S. 
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     B. S. WAKEFIELD.  In the field of professional service B. S. Wakefield 
has made continuous progress and for nine years Milwaukie has had the benefit 
of his ability and experience as an educator. A product of the west, he 
attended the public schools of Minnesota, his native state, and in 1898 was 
graduated from the University of Minnesota, which conferred upon him the 
degree of Bachelor of Science. He began his career as an instructor in 
Minnesota and first taught in a small school of two rooms.

     Mr. Wakefield was engaged in educational work in Minnesota until 1912, 
when he came to Oregon and purchased a small ranch in Lane county, devoting 
his land to the production of apples. At the same time he continued his 
professional activities and taught for seven years at Creswell. During the 
last year of the World war he was an instructor in the high school at Salem, 
Oregon, and in 1919 came to Milwaukie as superintendent of schools. There was 
only one grammar school and he taught some classes in the high school, which 
had less than one hundred pupils. Mr. Wakefield is now principal of the union 
high school in district No. 5, which was organized in March, 1925, and in that 
year work on the present building was started. It was completed in 1926 and 
contains twenty classrooms as well as auxiliary rooms. The building was 
designed for future expansion and is thoroughly modern. The course covers four 
years and four hundred and thirty-nine pupils are now in attendance. Mr. 
Wakefield directs the activities of a corps of nineteen teachers and in the 
discharge of his important duties brings to bear the wisdom and knowledge 
acquired by thirty years of practical experience in the educational field. 
Under his able supervision the school is making notable progress, and his work 
has been strongly commended.

     Mr. Wakefield was married in Minnesota to Miss Alice E. Cowell, and they 
have become the parents of two children, Alfred S. and Lynn B., both natives 
of Oregon. Mr. Wakefield has held a number of chairs in the blue lodge of 
Masons, and his wife is a past matron of the Eastern Star. They enjoy the 
esteem of many friends, and their home is the center of the social and 
cultural life of the community.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 905-906

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