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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1960)
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After searching the neighborhood for weeks, Bob finally found a building, for merly a synagogue, which could be rented for less than $30 a month. The board named it the Oakwood School, after a famous Quaker school in Sidney Harmon's home town, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The next problem was teachers. "Most private schools can't offer pension plans or any of the other benefits and secuiities pro vided by public schools, nor pay as much," Bob explained. "We could pay even less!" As a result, they got all the wrong people. Another drawback was the emotionally and physically handicapped children brought to the school by parents seeking the kind of treatment their youngsters couldn't get in public schools. "We struggled along with them for' three years," Bob re calls, "but it just couldn't work in with our plans to make it an exceptional school for exceptional children." Eventually, each child had to undergo extensive physical, aptitude, and psycho logical tests before he was accepted. In spite of financial difficulties from the beginning, a scholarship fund was estab lished to help gifted children whose parents couldn't afford any tuition payment. During the first three years, as enroll ment increased to 50 students, the syna gogue building could no longer provide enough space. So parents offered whatever space they had in their own homes. Ryan's "exercise shack," on the back of his property, became the first-grade room. "All in all," he remembers, "we were divided into five places. The city officials were never sure where we held our classes." Coping with city, county, and state school boards took much of Bob's time once he found himself appointed the school's representative on civic matters. So did find ing a new site when it was decided they had to build if they were to stay in business. After an extensive real-estate hunt, Bob and Jessica found what they considered an ideal location at an unusually low price. Just why the three acres were so reason able they found out only later: they had been condemned! "During the storms of 1938, the whole - area was flooded," Bob declared. "But in vestigation revealed that with all the control work that had been done since then, the flood danger no longer existed. All I had to do was to convince the authorities." And all that took was a year! With the money he could have earned in the time he spent running back and forth to . City Hall, he could have contributed a block on Wilshire Boulevard! Nevertheless, by the time Bob went to New York on a personal-appearance tour shortly after the first new building was completed, the rapidly diminishing student (Continued, Family Weekly, AuguH 7, 1960 13 1. After 2 hours 2. After 4 hours Actual photographs taken In dairy barn demonstrate flY CAKE'S reportable efte Now, quick death to disease-bearing Mies with amazing new FLY CAKE! Perfected scientific discovery attracts flies like a magnet, kills them instantly. 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