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Show Vena Wilson, 63, Graduates from High School f Graduates at 63 I v'Jp, pi ss h j-T"Mintinioiiiiiiiiin-'T Mrs. Vena Wilson, 63-year-old seeker after knowledge, was graduated from Milford High school with the Class of '49. Born on Sept. 7, 1875, in Og-densburg, Og-densburg, N. Y., Lavena Maud Hawley showed an early thirs." 1 for knowledge when she became be-came proficient enough in a trapper's shack schoolhouse to receive a teacher's certificate at ! 16 years of age. In those days. in a little Iowa frontier com- munity, teachers' certificates were issued to persons who could pass a state examination, with or without benefit of higher education. For the then-magnificent salary sal-ary of $25 a month, Mrs. Wilson taught school in various Iowa I communities for more than 16 years. She also passed the entrance en-trance examination of old Cen-ral Cen-ral College at Pella, Iowa4 a Holland Dutch community in which the older residents still wore wooden shoes, and was ( later graduated with honors from that institution. Graduating Graduat-ing from the Sate Teachers college col-lege of Iowa, Mrs. Wilson headed head-ed the Normal department of Central College for two years. j In 1906, she moved west, and helped her brother operate a j quicksilver mine in the Big j Bend country of Texas. A year later she moved to the Northwest North-west with a younger sister, and taught school near the Bremerton Bremer-ton navy yard, and at Wenatchee . . ated from high school," Mrs. Wilson said. So, after recovering recover-ing from a serious illness late in 1948, she enrolled in the Milford Mil-ford High school to obtain lacking lack-ing credits in English ,and also studied "government problems." Undoubtedly the "best-educated" student ever graduated from Milford High, Mrs. Wilson received re-ceived her diploma, to the roar of a thunderous ovation, from Parley B. Fisher, member' of the Beaver County Board of Education. Educa-tion. Satisfied and contented, now that she has officially graduated from a high school, Mrs. Wilson will continue her quiet, everyday every-day life in her little home on Eighth street. She will continue her work in the Eastern Star of which organization she is a past worthy matron and has served as secretary of the local , Ruth Chapter No. 6 for 16 years I and with the Rebekahs. She is 1 a past noble grand in that or gamzation, and entitled to wear their 25-year membership pin She will continue to teach her Bible class in the Milford Methodist Meth-odist church, and "keep on l ing my private life on M 7' street where everybodv w me. I guess I know just X? everybody in Milfro T expect to keep on enjo'vin? .friends my books and my ; home for a long, iong tin(e Ue in the apple country of Washington. Wash-ington. The sisters moved to California, Cali-fornia, and in 1915 Mrs. Wilson j and a friend filed a homestead I claim at Beryl, Utah, near the Cedar Breaks. The women proved up the two claims by building their house on the dividing di-viding line, with bedrooms on one claim and living room and kitchen on the other. She married W. J. Wilson in Milford, in 1916, and in 1917 they moved here to make their home. Following the death of her husband in 1922, she served as bookkeeper for seeral mercantile mer-cantile establishments, and in 1928 accepted employment with the Telluride Power Co., serving serv-ing as Milford office manager until she retired in 1948. "But all the time, I couldn't forget that I had never gradu- |