Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-07-12

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impression wherever he goes.
Prof. Lynch was reared in
Texas County aud his early edu.
cation was gained amid adverse
circumstances, adversities which
left a deep seated sympathy for
boys and girls who are largely
OH their own resources in their
struggle for an education. He
was II years old before he had
seen the inside of a grammar.
The first one he got hold of gave
him an appetite for knowledge
that has never been satisfied. He
finally qualified himself to teach
school. His success as a school
teacher attracted attention to
HIM and shortly before the Civil
War bloke out he was County
Clerk of Texas County.
When the call for volunteers
was issued by President Lincoln
Prof. Lynch enlisted and joined
the Thirty-second Missouri In
fantry. He was with Sherman on
the march 10 the sea. He enter
ed the service as a private and
as a result of meritOrious service
emerged from the war with the
rank of Captain. In all the three
years of his service in the Union
Army he was never reported
sick a day and was never absent
from his command.
From the army he went direct
ly to the University of Missouri,
having saved up his pay as a
soldier to take the university
course. He was graduated in the
class of 1868. In all the AZ years
of his career as a teacher in the
public schools. his work was con.
fined to schools in Southern Mis-.
souri,. He taught successfully at
Houston, Steelville, st. James,
Salem, West Plains, Cabool,
Mountain Grove and Ozark.
Better schools, better roads
and happy homes"
This is the gospel that Prof.
Lynch has been expounding in
the five years he has been visitor
for the normal. He visits all the
high schools in their turn, OBJ.
serving the kind 3f work being
done by the teachers and encOur.
aging them to devote their sum.
mer vacation to advanced work
at the normal. Every room is
visited when he calls at a school,
and teachers never fail to prevail
upon him to say a few words to
their pupils. He makes it a point
to meet with the county boards
of education at their annual
meetings to counsel with them 10
the solution of school problems
and to impress upon them the
need for demanding normal grad
yates as teachers If the standard
of the school is to be maintained
on the highest plane.
No good-road enthusiast in
Missouri probably receives more
invitations to address road meet.
ings than Prof. Lynch. Only g
conflict with some other engage
ment made previously ever pre-
vents him from accepting. He al
ways is the first person entering
a county superintendent's mine
as the speaker for rural gradua
ton exercises. If there Is to BIZ
an election for the voting O,
school bonds or consolidating
high school districts, Prot Lyncl
is called upon to help out. AM
always something is said by hin
to advance the interests Of the
Springfield Normal School.
The normal schools withou
doubt have been as potent as any
other factor in advancing the ed
ucational welfare of Missouri il
recent years" says Prof. Lynch
Still, the normals Of MissOur
are not what they ought to b.
and will be. We have hundred,
OF students who take a partia