Pictured above are Sandusky High
School students about 1939. Social Studies teacher John R. Kahler can be seen
in the center of the group. Notes on the back of the original photograph have
identified most of the people in the picture.
Many of these students were graduates in June of 1940. Student Jay Leibach would go on to
become the chief engineer at WLEC Radio. His obituary in 1986 stated that Jay
Leibach was responsible for getting WLEC on the air on December 7, 1947. Mr. Kahler eventually left the education field, and he had another long
career with Sandusky Foundry and Machine (now MetalTek); he also served
as Sandusky’s ex-officio Mayor in 1948-1949.
