Kobweb Korners: A Network of History and Tradition Relating to Eldorado and Southern Illinois (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

T. Leo Dodd

9780332855790: Kobweb Korners: A Network of History and Tradition Relating to Eldorado and Southern Illinois (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332855791 ISBN 13: 9780332855790

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Excerpt from Kobweb Korners: A Network of History and Tradition Relating to Eldorado and Southern Illinois

Mr. Casual Passerby, who has been a citizen of Eldorado for only two years, when asked, What do you think of T. Leo without a moment's hesitation replied, A great guy, a good guy! One who likes to aid you in little things, one who cooperates. Having been Leo's English teacher for four years, I would choose a word other than guy but to express the sentiment, what could be better?

Why is a casual passerby in Eldorado competent to judge? Sel dom has a man so identified himself with his home community as has T. Leo Dodd.

Born in a log house on a 30-acre farm, his father, a farmer and a country school teacher, he passed his early years as a country boy, interested in the love of the past. When he finished the rural schools, he entered the new Eldorado Township High School. After college days and an apprenticeship in other schools as a teacher, he returned to Eldorado, where he worked thirty-one years in the school from which he graduated - fourteen years as a teacher and seventeen years as the principal of the school.

In all these years of teaching, the civic duties multiplied until he earned the title, Mr. Eldorado He is a member of civic and fraternal organizations and has held every local office in the Lions Club and served during World War II as District Governor of Lions International. He was president, for three years, of the Eldorado Development Association, the first such venture in Southern Illinois, and represented the Association at Valley Forge to receive the top award in the Nation, and a George Washington Medal, following this the next year by receiving a second award of and a citation.

The reader will notice the simple style of expression in this little volume~ - something like Benjamin Franklin. Despite a B. S. Degree from Chicago University, and an M. S. Degree from the University of Illinois, Leo Dodd is still, in spirit and character, a gentle boy, who in tremolo voice, Spoke a declamation in his junior year in high school to win his first medal. His scholastic recordsreveal honors from valedictorian in high school to Cum Lauda in the universities.

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