Photo of Thackery High School students in 1915: front row (l to r), Harry Kelley, Emmett Dingledine, Estell Morris, Gladys Davis, Nina Stevens, Muriel Jenkins and Helen Gentis; second row (l to r), Herman Evilsizor, Clinton Allison, Robert Ireland, Sam Brunner, Homer Leonard, Miss Helen Keller (teacher), Miss Dora Miller (teacher) and T. J. Heck (superintendent); and back row (l to r), Sam Zerkle and Ralph Hill.
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Thackery High School, 1915
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Submitted story
The school was located on Kite Road, an eighth of a mile north of Route 55 in Mad River Township. The school building was closed in 1917. Students then attended the new Christiansburg-Jackson School.
Superintendent T.J. Heck was the father of Grace Fern Heck Faust, who would become a prominent attorney and judge in Champaign County.
In 1930, Grace received the degree Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University.
Later she was a law researcher under William O. Douglas, who would become a U. S. Supreme Court Justice. She was the first woman in Ohio to be elected as a prosecuting attorney.
Info from Champaign County Historical Society (CCHS).
