Gunnison Valley News | 1928-01-12 | Page 4 | The Little Red Schoolhouse

THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE. It is most appropriate for men of means to make a gift to an obscure community which is their birthplace, of a model "little red schoolhouse." Sometimes a successful man makes a donation extending the magnitude of the gift into many thousands of dollars. That was the case with Owen D. Young, who gave such a school to his native village, Van Hornesville, New York, where he began life at the bottom bot-tom of the ladder. He wanted this school to represent a step upward from the little one-rooms single teacher school of his boyhood, and to be the kind of a school he did not have as a boy. He has set a splendid example to men of means whp owe their success in life to the simplicity and soundness of rural life as a builder of character.