Gertrude Hartung was associated with the Sandusky City
Schools for forty years. She began as a teacher in 1921, teaching at both
Madison and Campbell Schools. When she was still in her 20s, Superintendent
Frank J. Prout named her as principal of Madison School.
Later she served as
principal of Barker School. In her final years of teaching, Miss Hartung taught
Social Studies at the Sandusky High School. She retired from Sandusky City
Schools in 1961.
Sandusky native Glenn Everett, who worked as a news
correspondent in Washington D.C., wrote a tribute to Miss Hartung in
the June 25, 1989 issue of the Sandusky
Register, not long after her death. He told about Miss Hartung taking a
large group of elementary children on a flat-bed truck to the Hartung family
farm on Campbell Street, so the students could see cows being milked, and corn
being harvested. On another field trip,
the children watched milk being bottled at the old Esmond Dairy, and they all
got an ice cream sandwich after the tour of the plant. A field trip that really
made an impression on Glenn Everett was when all the members of the class were
locked for a minute in a dark jail cell at the old Erie County Jail, as a
deputy sheriff warned the students about the consequences of bad behavior.
On June 9, 1989, Gertrude Hartung died at the age of 89. Funeral services were held at the Groff Funeral Home, and burial was at Oakland Cemetery. Miss Hartung touched many lives during her long career as an educator with the Sandusky City Schools
2 comments:
I was in her SHS history class during the 1954-55 term.
She was a great teacher.
When I graduated from OWU in 1961, she sent me a nice note. I still have it.
Bob Williams
A Cincinnati teacher, 1964-99.
Wonderful that she is remembered by so many!
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