John Wesley Reiley
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 18 March 1942, page 2
HONORED-John W Reiley, Alexandria, who retires at the conclusion of the present school term after having served 35 years in Campbell county's school system, will be honored at 8:30 pm March 30 at the Campbell County High School, Alexandria. Dr. John W Brooker, Frankfort, state superintendent of public instruction, will deliver the principal address. A concert will be given by the Campbell County High School band.
There also will be singing and an exhibition of the 'old hickory stick' used by schoolmasters in days of yore. A class of Prof. Reiley's members of which are 50 years old or more, will give brief addresses. F I Satterlee, principal of Campbell County High School, is chairman of the program committee. Mrs. George Kees is chair of the program committee. Prof. Reiley will be succeeded as county superintendent by Prof. Harry G Dunn, principal of Dale School, Highland Heights.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 31 March 1942, page 2
FINE SERVICE-It was a most befitting tribute that residents of Alexandria and surrounding rural Campbell county paid John W Reiley, retiring Campbell county school superintendent, at a dinner and testimonial in his honor Monday night. In his 76th year, Mr. Reiley is to retire. The one room school where Mr. Reiley first taught the rudiments of common school knowledge is gone. Replacing it are modern structures with their fleets of school buses, giving to the bare foot country boy the opportunities afforded his urban brothers.
Rural Campbell county had 40 schools, 37 of which were one-room buildings, when Mr. Reiley began his 36 year career as county superintendent. These schools stand as monuments to the vision he had and was allowed to see become a reality over a period of years.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 18 September 1950, page 4
SCHOOL SYSTEM-From teaching in the old one room schools in Campbell County for 13 years to the superintendency of the county's educational system for 36 years, that was the record of high achievement by John W Reiley, who at the venerable age of 84 passed quietly to his reward. Eight years ago Mr. Reiley retired from active work in the schools but his interest in the advancement of education in this area was alive to the end.