Lifelong subscriber passed on writing talents to Dayton students

Ruth Peck has been featured in the Dayton Daily News dozens of times throughout her life as a longtime subscriber. She was an English teacher in Vandalia and has published multiple books. STAFF PHOTO / SARAH FRANKS

Ruth Peck has been featured in the Dayton Daily News dozens of times throughout her life as a longtime subscriber. She was an English teacher in Vandalia and has published multiple books. STAFF PHOTO / SARAH FRANKS
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By Sarah Franks
Sept 14, 2019
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Ruth Ann Peck, 88 years old, has been in the Dayton Daily News so many times throughout her life that she could also be in the running for most featured lifelong subscriber.

There’s a 4-inch binder in Peck’s sunroom full of newspaper clippings and articles about Peck’s dozens of awards, scholarships and recognitions for outstanding teaching at Northmont Middle School. Winning journalism and writing prizes since high school, and still today, Peck is a literary force with multiple books published.

This article will likely join the others in the binder.

“I love the beauty and power of words. … If you love the power of words, you can write poetry. If you are patient enough to stew around for a couple of days for the right words, your words will be powerful,” Peck said.

Before Peck was an award-winning teacher or even getting featured in the Dayton Daily News for winning Prom Queen, she was a young girl reading the newspaper with her family.

“I wanted to know what was going on in my city,” Peck said. “”I’ve been in Dayton since 1939 and the first thing my dad did was go out and subscribe to the Dayton Daily News. We always were a newspaper family because everything was in there.”

To finish the 120th year of the Dayton Daily News this month we are featuring stories of some of our lifelong subscribers. Read them all at DaytonDailyNews.com

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