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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation angered at least one Mount Orab resident, Richard Lodwick...
...goes the educational process-at least for some teen-agers&$151;in the tiny (pop. 1,400) Ohio town of Mount Grab. The unorthodox program is the town's proud answer to a universal problem: how to deal with dropouts. In Mount Orab, the problem has been severe: for every 200 youngsters who graduated from the town's high school each year, 50 would drop out, often to do little more than hang out on the corner under the town's only streetlight...
...former Cincinnati paper salesman who now raises Arabian horses in the Mount Orab area, Lodwick became interested in education first as president of the local school board and then as an elementary-school teacher. He recalls...
...sudden we realized that what we were doing was educating the kids who go on to college and never come back to Mount Orab. The kids who stay and make their homes here are the dropouts. The community's education system was shortchanging the community." So Lodwick and the school board changed-or at least enlarged-the system...
Oakland did not mount a serious threat until the ninth, with Matlack out of the game. But Ray Sadecki fanned shortstop Bert Campeneris with the bases loaded to preserve...