Mt. Carmel School 

Mt. Carmel School was located in Madison Township.  In 1903 the school housed 42 students.  The teacher earned $33 per month. 

Mr. Henry Clay Lantz began teaching at Mt. Carmel School in 1884.  This was his second year of teaching.  He taught at the Hardscrabble School his first year.  Mr. Lantz also taught at Bennett School House and Harrison Furnace.  Mr. Lantz's teaching career lasted 25 years.

Article in The Portsmouth Times, July 20, 1962, p. 10

Miss Gladys Thompson, Teacher

Adam Culp, Evelina Culp, Henry Brame, Charles Hedaway, Willowlee Littleton, Genormal Caudill, Hazel Kronk, Hazel Culp, Emma Mae Coburn, Paul Butcher, George Brown, Terry Giles, Willard Brame, Kelsie Brame, Cariel Warren, Fern Hadaway, Enzona Hadaway, Mabel Coburn, Charles Brown, Elva Caudill, Eli Littleton, Avanell Culp, Violet Culp, Le Moyne Powell, Thelma Powell, Myrtle Musgrave, Alton Deemer, James Hadaway, Vern Warren, Hazel Hadaway, Leona Bowers, Inez Giles, Goldie Littleton, Altha Brown, Earl Bennett, Paul Giles, Fayita Warren, Alletha Warren, Minnie Brame, Averill Brown, Elma Brown, Gayle Hadaway

Article in The Portsmouth Times, September 4, 1930, p. 32

 William T. Bennett has been given the contract to transport high school students from Salem and Carmel school districts to Minford.

Article in The Portsmouth Times, November 22, 1930, p. 5 

Miss Rosanna Coles, of Fairview, teacher at the Carmel School has returned to her work after an illness of two weeks.

Article in The Portsmouth Times, August 26, 1959, p. 12

TRIO SPENDS PLEASANT TIME REMINISCING 

Three ladies each more than 90, recalled pleasant memories of their one-room school days as they were guests at a luncheon Tuesday.  Their 96 year-old teacher couldn't be at the dinner.

Mrs. Nancy Woddell, 93, Mrs. Susie Allen, 91, and Miss Lizzie Kronk, 93, reminisced together about their experiences in the Mt. Carmel school in Madison Township about three miles northeast of Minford.

Henry Lantz, who was 21 then, walked from Minford each day to teach at the school.  Miss Kronk and Mrs. Allen were among his pupils.  Mrs. Woddell had begun teaching school herself at the age of 16.

When the ladies were driven past the site of their former school, they recalled riding horseback to school, skating over the hills in the winter and bending young saplings to the ground and riding them up into the air.

Mr. Lantz, who lives with a daughter, Miss Genevieve Lantz, 2802 Brant Avenue wasn't present to share the memories as he is visiting another daughter at Greenwich, Ohio.

Another who attended the school, Mrs. Lizzie Bonzo, was unable to be at the meeting because she is bedfast at her home in the Salem community.

However, each of the other ladies is active and alert and took evident enjoyment in the luncheon prepared for them at the Turkey Shoppe Restaurant.

Mrs. Allen, who lives in the Salem community, continues an active life by baking bread for her family each Saturday.  Her husband, George, was a teacher for 45 years and two children, Alva and Mrs. Etta McCoy, were teachers also.

Miss Kronk, also of Salem, continues in her specialty, gardening.  She has become known throughout the county for her beatiful garden and has many visitors each year who come to see her flowers.

Miss Kronk hasn't given up her schooling either.  She is taking a correnspondence course in Bible prophecy.  She can recall days as a home "missionary" when she went into the hills of Kentucky on horseback to "spread the word."

Miss Kronk also has taken three orphans into her home and raised them as "brothers and sisters."

Mrs. Woddell lives ith a son, George, on a farm near Lucasville.  She taught at Miller Run School, Owl Creek and Wetmore schools.

She has a son, Joseph, who teaches at Shaker Heights, Ohio, another son, John, who formerly taught at the University of Illinois and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Miller a retired teacher.

The dinner was the idea of Mrs. Ruth Hagen of South Webster and Charles Zaler of Lucasville who thought it would be entertaining for the women to meet with each other again and talk over "old times." 

Former teachers and principals:

Henry Clay Lantz
Dan Vangorder