Category History

A post that deal with the history of Wayne Central

Some Video Links

I had a couple of Wayne graduations on various media (VHS/DVD), so I decided to digitize them. They are way too large to upload and store them here, so I used YouTube and made links. I also found some videos…

The First Night Soccer Games

Before the late 1960’s, all soccer games were typically played around 3:30-4:00PM, right after school. Wayne was in the Wayne County League back then, and Clyde-Savannah or Red Creek were the teams that came from the farthest distance. In those…

How Did Wayne Central Get it’s Name?

Shared by Frank Robusto How did Wayne Central obtain its name? Over 40 names for new Central school were submitted by students of the Centralized area. It was decided by the Board to each make first, second and third choice…

Sad Ontario History

This is not directly Wayne Central Alumni related. I recently came across this news from 1949. Though I have essentially lived in Ontario all of my life, I had never heard about this before. This happened in 1949, about a…

Lieutenant Robert S. Witt

I was thinking about one of my neighbors growing up on N. Slocum Road.  Bob was 8 years older than me, and a year older than my oldest brother, Tom.  He graduated from Wayne in 1966. I had just started…