Rohrer Dorothy Rohrer an autobiography written September 10, 1926 College Essay

           I was born one bright sunshiny morning in June 1905, on a farm in Fulton County, Illinois. After six years filled with the innocent fun of childhood I started to school. (Probably 1911). The next eight years of my life were spent in the same country school (Mound School). This place has grown dear to my heart, as the years go by; it was a pretty place on a gentle sloping mound, with plenty of beautiful shade trees. I finished the first eight grades, but decided to spend another year there. Before that year (1919 when her father died) expired, I was forced to quit as I was needed at home. 

           After three years at home, I started to a community high school (Fairview High School). The first two years passed all to quickly and in my junior year I was very fond of two subjects, Ceasar and English Literature, my grades being exceptionally good in these departments. This year I carried an extra subject Botany, which I liked very much, but with the junior play which kept me very busy. 

           In my senior year the subject which I dreaded most was physics, and it was only by much labor that I kept my grades up.

           The high school which I attended was a small one in a little village, where the school spirit was exceptionally good. However, I felt that as though my four years there were well spent, when at graduation my grades averaged third from the highest. 

           Right here might I add a word of gratitude to one of my high school teachers who taught me English Literature, she is as my classmates often said "a teacher in a thousand" and it is not often that a small school is blessed with a teacher of such wonderful ability. It is to her I owe my appreciation of all good literature and my special interest in English Literature, which I intend to learn all about I can, while at Manchester College.