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Fort Myers Schools
FORT MYERS PRESS, Thursday, January 20, 1910
THE NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE
Eight Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars has Been Signed
WHAT WILL WE DO ABOUT IT?
More Than Nine Thousand Dollars is in Sight -- $12,500 Will be Needed Very Soon
The school fund is growing slowly. The people are not coming forward as they should in this matter, but those who
have undertaken to raise the amount needed are not discouraged, as will be seen by the following letter which has
been handed us by Captain W. F. Gwynne, who has been interesting himself in the matter. We feel that in justice
to the children of our city, who are so sorely in need of this building to say nothing of the appreciation of the
work being done by Capt. Gwynne, there should be more interest shown in a work so important. Capt. gwynne is seeking
no notoriety in this matter, but is doing an act that should be responded to by every citizen. Read his letter
and then figure out that you have some duty to perform in the matter and hunt him up, and make a liberal contribution
to the fund. His letter reads:
"The 'gift fund' for a new school house in Fort Myers has reached a total of $8,250.00; twelve thousand five
hundred is needed.
"It is a well-known fact that the last few thousands, or hundred of all such undertakings is the real test
of accomplishment. The people of Fort Myers can not afford to let this undertaking fail. There may be difference
of opinion as to public effort and I happen to know that some of our most substantial citizens doubt the advisability,
either of a building of the magnitude contemplated, or, the method of erecting it.
"I know, that to help the man who helps himself is the surest and most direct road to permanency, but I believe
we could well acquit the honesty of our souls in waiving this great truth in our dealings with children.
"I seriously doubt if there is a little child now living in Fort Myers whose mind would be poisoned into dependency
because of a 'gift-school' and I believe that out of the doors of such school would, in time, come at least three
whose good citizenship would have been founded and riveted in that 'gift school.'
"Sodom and Gomorrah would have been saved had three - nay, even one -- been found and there have been times
since when training and resultant wisdom and good citizenship of three would have saved our institutions and guaranteed
the right enjoyment of individual effort.
"I have found, that as men grow old -- especially men who have earned every dollar they possess by their unaided
efforts -- they have acute faculty for distinguishing right and wrong, both public and private, and yet, I have
never known such an one in whose soul there did not lurk something of bitterness.
"What is it? Can it be that, in the soul of every 'self-made" man - no matter what measure of success
he may have attained - lurks ever bitterness because of childhood hardships and the want, then, of a helping hand
and that it does not bring surcease of sorrow to say to him 'your father and not your neighbor?'
"What is there underlying all human life? Is there such thing as 'the brotherhood of man" and understanding
of its understanding of Divinity?
"Let us take to ourselves, 'the benefit of a doubt,' and give to our children, our neighbors' children in
memory of that, which in many cases, was denied to us - when we were little children"
W. F. GWYNN
Following is a list of subscribers to the fund to date:
W. F. Gwynne - $1,000.00
W. H. Towles - 500.00
Franklin Miles - 500.00
Carl F. Roberts - 500.00
First National Bank - 500.00
R. A. Henderson - 500.00
Bank of Ft. Myers - 500.00
John Trice - 100.00
Mrs. A. D. Gwynne - 1,500.00
H. E. Heitman - 100.00
F. W. Miller - 500.00
N. S. Blount - 100.00
W. J. Odom - 100.00
G. B. Reynolds - 100.00
S. C. Bass - 100.00
E. M. Hendry - 100.00
G. W. Storter - 100.00
Menge Bros - 100.00
G. F. Ireland - 100.00
B. P. Matheson - 100.00
J. E. Foxworthy - 100.00
C. J. Stubbs - 100.00
Kinzie Bros - 100.00
H. A. Hendry - 100.00
W. R. Washburn - 100.00
W. J. Hendry - 100.00
Frank Carson - 100.00
Fort Myers Press - 100.00
Taylor Frierson - 50.00
S. W. Sanchez - 50.00
J. E. Hendry, Sr. - 250.00
Total --- $8,250.00
Recovered and Transcribed by
Helen Farrell June 2004
Edited/scripted by Tom Stewart 06/24/04
submitted by Norita Shepherd Moss
FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
Principals of Andrew D Gwynne High School
Submitted by Norita Shepherd Moss
Romero Mitchell Sealey ~ 1910-1915
J Frank Farrow ~ 1915-1916
C W Crumly ~ 1916-1918
H F Steedl ~ 1918-1921
James L Orr ~ 1921-1923
The name was changed in 1923 to Fort
Myers High School when a new was built.
Principals - Fort Myers High School (FMHS)
Dr J Colin English ~ 1923-1924
Katherine Row Moore ~ 1924-1931
Howell Watkins ~ 1931-1933
Sidney Ellison ~ 1933-1936
Charles Whitnel ~ 1936-1938
Ellis Parke Greene ~ 1938-1942
Ed B Henderson ~ 1942-1946
Ray Tipton ~ 1946-1951
Dr Maurice Coleman ~ 1951-1952
Damon Hutzler ~ 1952-1963
C R Barker (Acting) ~ 1963-1963
Harold Thompson ~ 1963-1973
Herbert Wiseman ~ 1973-1992
Dr James Browder ~ 1992-1994
Mrs Joni Logan ~ 1994-1999
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