The Osceola times., 1884-10-25
Resolutions.
To THE TEACHERS AND PUPILs OF
Durr,r, Hon GcuooI.

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late Director Of Osceola High School,
respectfully submit the following:
Mr.. G.. f. Stowell was qualified
to act as director October Is, 1881 ;
his term expired October 10, 1884.
RESOLVED: That considering the
fact that the Office of School Dlrec-
tor is wholly unremunerative, and,
that in view of the remarkable
leniency of parental discipline in
this golden age Of ease and plenty,
it is true that he who institutes and
then preserves a respectable disci-
pline in any school is therefore look
ed upon as tyrant and made the
target of imagined criticisms and Of
the anathemas Of those who are ig-
norant of School Law and of those
who are under the control Of their
own ohildren-and further consid-
ering the fact that the Osceola High
School has been for the last school
year in violent revolution, passing
from utter chaos to perfect discipline
and systematic grading; and further
that as its Directors have unswerv-
lngly in the face of clamorous and
turbulent opposition maintained the
authority Of the teachers and pre-
served at all times strict obedience
to rules. therefore be it
RESOLVED: BY us as its teachers
and pupils that the present body of
Directors, Mess. G.. f. Stowell, f.
b. Hale and w. f. Williams, are
unexampled in the history of educa-
ton in Mississippi County, as dis
Interested, high-minded, public
spirited men, whose course is worthy
the emulation Of all, and be it
RESOLVED: That they have used
every effort in their power to found
and maintain, in Osceola, a school
of the caste and worth that becomes
her excellent and law-abiding citi-
zens, and further be it
RESOLVED: That the patrons and
pupils and the district at large owe
and should pay to these Directors a
life long gratitude for having acted
in their midst as honorable worlmen
laying the cornerstone of an insti-
tuition of learning which will orna-
ment and bless the public through
succeeding years.
RESOLVED: That the noblest work
of benevolcnce in any community is
demonstrated in the laying of the
foundation and the uphuilding of an
institution for the thorough moral
and mental training of the young
that it is true education that roots
out vice; that lifts up the poorer
classes TO a digniGed and lawful
position In society; that engenders
all the noble virtues a the heart of
humanity, and
RESOLVED: That Mr.. G.. F. Stow
ell in harmony and cooperation
with the other directors has been
engaged in this glorious work since
lis connection with Osceola High
School.
RESOLVED: That as pupils of Os-
ceola High School we tender to him
our sincerest gratitude-that we
recognize him as a friend TO educa-
ton and shall cherish his memory as
one of our earliest benefactors.
RESOLVED: That as pupils of Os-
ceola High School we have with the
aid of our honored directors climbed
steadily and surely along the thorny
road of learning and that now as we
stand like Moses oil Pisgah's sum-
NIT gazing upon the beauties of the
Promised Land, Of a finished edu-
cation, we pray that as our friend
and director, Mr., StowtdIs Jays aside
his garb of Office that oubut bored re-
naming directors may Luciapewed
courage and zeal work unlike abe
interest and progress of q irers % as the
school; being assured thae is oil, s
will work with willing lar' ON for !
carry out any programme Sur lnay
make, and that we hope, many of ms,
to be able to prove our appreciation
of their earnest and noble labors by
a useful and well spent life.
Resolved: That copy of these
resolutions be sent to Mr.. Stowell
and family, also to the Osceola
TIMrs for publication, and that the
following quotation from one of
England's favoite Sons of Literature,
be our blessing upon the heads of
Mess. f. b. Hale, W. f. William
and G.. +. Stowell:
"May the blessing of God await
thee, May the sun of glory shine
around thy bed; and may the gates
of plenty, honor and happiness be
ever open to thee. May no sorrow
distress thy days; may no grief dis
turb thy nights. May the pillow
of peace kiss thy check, and the
pleasures of Imagination attend thy
dreams; and when length of years
makes thee tired OF earthly Joys, and
the curtain of death gently closes
around thy last sleep of human ex-
istenoe, may the angel of God attend
thy bed, and take care that the ex-
piring lamp of life shall not receive
one rude blast 10 hasten on its ex-
tinction."