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| | The American Enterprise: The School Centralization Plague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Wesleyville was still, however, a lively little place containing about two dozen small, locally owned stores, eight or ten eating and drinking establishments, four churches, a movie theater, a creek, a dump, a trailer park with drives named Fleetwood and Ventoura, an assortment of closely spaced houses—and one school. |
| | At Wesleyville, where the final, 59-person Class of 1965 was by local standards a big class (the pre-baby boom Class of ’61 numbered just 32), students knew one another’s names, personalities, and often their families, religious affiliations, and other attributes. |
| | Wesleyville couldn’t afford both a gymnasium and an auditorium in 1918 when the school was built, so the Bulldogs played in a peculiar combination facility—the basketball court actually occupying the school stage, elevated about four feet above the auditorium’s floor. |
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