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INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Wisconsin, this year of 1948, celebrates its 100 years of statehood.
Centennial activities are being carried on to give due recognition to its 100th
birth date. We, in Wisconsin, have been making and living educational history
during this first century of our statehood. Much of this history is unrecorded,
or if it was recorded at one time those records have been discarded as useless
"junk". This is all too true in the field of public education! The record books
of school district clerks and of school treasurers' recorded community history
which can be obtained from no other one source. The teachers' Daily Register in
which the school records of children were recorded are revealing and of
tremendous historical value. Too many of these district records and the
teachers' Registers have been thoughtlessly destroyed, leaving little except the
reminiscences of the few old-timers still with us.

    The second century of Wisconsin's statehood will, no doubt, bring about a
tremendous change in public school organization. The small district system, so
effective and satisfactory during the first one-hundred years of Wisconsin's
settlement, may be replaced by units which will be able to meet the second
century's problems in rural and urban education. It is with this thought in
mind, that the Manitowoc county teachers, school board members, and town and
county officials deemed it of historical importance to preserve as much of the
Manitowoc county school histories as possible through the publication of this
book. Many of the histories are incomplete but they are as accurate and
authentic as available records can make them. The histories of about twenty-five
schools are abbreviated records taken from the record books kept since the
district was organized. This, very likely, is the first historical record ever
compiled of the schools of one county in Wisconsin. Its importance and value
will increase as the centuries pass.

    The publication of the Histories of Manitowoc County Schools has been made
possible through the active and whole-hearted cooperation of the teachers,
school board members, school administrators, interested county citizens, town
and county officials, and the Manitowoc County Board. Without their enthusiastic
personal and financial support, this publication would not have been possible.
To all of the above named persons and groups, Manitowoc county is indebted for
this historical record of Manitowoc county schools.


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1848 - 1948

CENTENNIAL HISTORY
of the
Manitowoc County School Districts and Public School System

EDITED BY JOS. J. RAPPEL, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 1948 


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