Wednesday, February 25, 2009
YOUNGSTOWN — The Judge William Rayen Foundation Trustees don’t want the city school district to lose the former Rayen School that is now part of the Irene Ward central office complex at Wick Avenue and Wood Street.
The trustees urge the district to preserve his name in some manner, Reid Schmutz, a member of the trustees, told the city school board this week.
Judge Rayen died in 1854 but his estate provided funds for a trust and the founding of The Rayen School where all of Youngstown’s children could be educated. It was built in 1866 and became the first public school in Mahoning County.
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