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PICKAWAY PEOPLE: Circleville grads will remember veteran teacher

The Herald - 6/16/2018

Anyone graduating from CHS during the 50s most likely remember Miss Ruth Stout. Born in 1902 to Wellington and Lucinda Harvel Stout, in Circleville, she made teaching school her life's vocation. Stout taught at CHS for 11 years and served as a tour guide to Washington, D.C., for junior high students. After her stint at CHS, she taught at Washington Twp. School for 24 years, and at McDowell Exchange School in the Logan Elm School District.

Stout was a member of the Logan Elm Classroom Teachers Assoc. and the Ohio Education Assoc. She was one of the first volunteers at Berger Hospital, worked at the Public Library, served on the Ration Board, made a scrapbook for servicemen, wrote to scouts in other countries and gave flags for the parade in the 1945 Pumpkin Show. She singlehandedly started the Girl Scout movement in this county in the 1930s. Some 20 years of her life was devoted to working for the Girl Scouts.

Miss Stout was survived by her brother Ned, a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. She is buried at Forest Cemetery.

The Historical & Genealogical Library program for this month is "Gunsmithing," given by Steve Spicer and Joe Forte, on June 18, 2018, at 7 p.m., at 210 North Court St.