![]() ![]() She sang in the chorus, participated in 4-H, and played saxophone in the 32 member band. While in high school, Margaret played baseball and basketball. When the Washington Township School, grades 1-12 opened in January 1924, she remembers that students picked up their books on a cold, snowy day and walked across Franklin Street to the new school. In the seventh and eighth grade she attended the first High School. When the weather was bad her father or her neighbor would take the children to school in a horse and buggy. It was necessary for her to walk 1 1/4 miles to school. The one-room school she attended had nine students when she was in the first grade. She was born in 1912 and lived her whole life on Bigger Road. Margaret Delaney experienced many of the changes in the Washington Township schools. A Celebration of 200 years of Education in Washington Township ![]()
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