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Education is based upon the solid rock of a spiritual life. This is the living philosophy of John Wallace Whitmer in whose honor Whitmer Senior High School is named and is whose honor the school attempts to carry out his principles of living and learning.
Mr. Whitmer was the executive secretary of the Northwestern Ohio Education Association. As such he directed the programs of this important segment of Ohio's educational and professional life.
Exemplary in his own life, Mr. Whitmer
has been a source of inspiration to the thousands of students and hundreds of teachers whose lives he has touched by his encouragement and helpful counsel. To him, the wise founders of the Washington Township School System turned in the mid-twenties when they wished to establish a high school in the Township.
John Wallace Whitmer early decided to become a teacher. He was a graduate of Wooster College and of Ohio State University. His pioneer work in education won him high honors. But he remained simple in his attitudes and his character. He believed in young people and recognized their inherent rights to a freedom of enterprise and initiative, wisely tempered by a growing respect for the rights of others and recognition of their responsibilities as young citizens of a free country.
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