Jefferson City School History Highlights Through 1964
A historical overview traces Jefferson City Public Schools from its 1838 founding through the 1964 Miller Street and Union Street campuses. It covers diploma era beginnings in 1871, early graduations, the 1904 rebuild, expansion to a two year junior college, Simonsen High School and Junior High names, the 1964 dedication, and graduation trends with about 65 percent advancing to college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
Louise Yost
Caddie Bolton
Lalla Murphy
Philadelphia
Lutheran Church
Cole County Historical Society Museum
Hobo Hill
Board of Education
Fredricka Simonsen
Ernst Simonsen
Ernst Simonsen High School
Simonsen Junior High School
Miller Street
G. B. Winston
Simonsen High School
Union Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woodman Engineering Company
Capitol
Becker and Evers
Harry Blackwell, Inc
Conscientious Auto Service
Miller & Jefferson Dial
Banks
Central Missouri Trust Company
Madison
Dial
Thora
W. McCarty
Wiss
Rackers & Baclesser
W. Dunklin
Central Dairy
Montgomery Ward and CO
Crown Drug CO
Jefferson Plaza
Stokes Electric CO
Fuel Oil
Jefferson City Oil CO
Conoco
Brooks St
Tanner Funeral Home
Jefferson Dial
Tennyson’s, Inc
Grocers
Dix Rd
Hearing Air Service
D. Heisinger L. Wekenborg
E. High Street
Dallmeyer's Jewelry
Saffee
Cardwell
Rathskeller
Wright
Madison Dial
Sutton Drug Shop
Radio & TV
Towner Radio & TV
Zenith Radio
W. Dunklin Ph
Smith Realty
U.S
Industrial Ave
Lakeside Restaurant
Hishwar 50 West
Savings & Loan
Home Savings & Loan Assoc
East McCarty
Harman Nebel
Edward D. Jones
N. Y. Stock Exchange
Johnny's Sinclair
A. J. Rackers
Culligan Water Conditioning
Central Mo
Jerry's
Central School
John P. Stowe
Brenda Darnell
Ernest C. Simmons
Glen Swisher
Raymond L. Wilson
James Albert
Paul R. Pierce
Juanita Mahfouz
Richard Hazell
Carl J. Duppong
Joseph C. McDougal
Raymond E. McDonald
Virgil Hunke
Ronald M. Taggart
Odessa, Texas
Ashland, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
Kansas City, Mo
We. Fulton, Missouri
Fulton, Missouri
Bland, Missouri
Bremerton, Washington
Eric Roger Countryman
Springfield
Paul Larimore
Springfield, Missouri
Temple, Arizona
Linn, Missouri
Kirksville, MissoUri
Houston, MissoUri
Centertown, MissoUri
St. Joseph, Missouri
Redford, Missouri
Darrell K. McMillian
Ernie V. Hatfield
Charles E. Schaeffer
Robert S. Tucker
James E. Linville
Olin ED
Curtis
Niran. Sims
Phillip T. Blake
Cecil E. Dunn
Everett Cates
James D. Abbett
Sandra J. Lile
Robert A. Leonard
Lena M. Smith
Bernard P. Lackman
Leo A. Wicker, JR
Eldon, Missouri
Iberia, Missouri
Holts Summit, Missouri
Caseyville, Illinois
Sunrise Beach
Waynesville, Missouri
Clinton, Missouri
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Lilbourn, Missouri
Tuscumbia, Missouri
Macon
Kansas City, Missouri
ST. Thomas, Missouri
Ronald D. Truax
James E. Belcher
Harold Treese
William H. Basham
Lois Jean Miller
Lawrence C. Beluz
Harold W. Todd
Charles C. Swenson
Richard L. Stitzer
Robert P. Drum
Margaret Green
Kenneth Sir
David R. Collier
Keith N. Truesdell
Beverly J. Wilkinson
Onumwa, Iowa
Breymer, Missouri
Houston, Texas
Loose Creek, Missouri
Ronald L. Claxton
John R. Basnett
Detroit
Michigan
Moberly, Missouri
East
Louis
Ilinois
Holis Summit, Missouri
Hong Kong
Columbia, Missouri
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