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!F»-3Orti*68All Buildings Repaired, and Modern Equipment AddedNew Junior High School Department Praised By Leading Educators of the State; Plans Outlined By Dr.Jeremiah Rhodes Last Fall.1212S37Wrslitc-»y•-v-V-jrit10inidlestsne-eru*idatofirr-AOwitno-tyir.velye-1K*-reit-ii-toIt-II.atxof1Monday, September 13, will be the first day of public school in Kerrville thisseason, according to a statement issued by Superintendent Raymond A. Franklin today. The splendid new building, which is the pride of the district, will house the Elementary school. The newly created Junior High department will occupy the oldest building, while the old high school building will be occupied this year by the Senior High school. All buildings have been repaired and remodeled inside, giving the entire school practically new buildings to occupy, with new and modem equipment.This is the first year of the new junior high school organization. Since 1920 Superintendent Franklin and his ,-taff have been working along the line of departmentalizing the upper grades, and have been gradually working into this system. So well has the system been perfected that many leading educators of Texas have said that we will have here the leading junior high school system of Texas. Many schools have what they call a junior high school, but few have worked it out from the standpoint of the entire organization, including in the plans due consideration to grouping, methods of instruction, content of courses, and forth. All these things have been given due consideration over a period of years, while things were being lined up for the successful launching of a department which would be u junior high school, not in name only but in fact. Now we have the plans ready, the material equipment, the faculty, the properly trained and graded pupils, and the bttilding facilities.Dr. Jeremiah Rhodes, organizer of San Antonio’s famous system ofschools, spent a week in Kerrville lastyear, making a survey and helping Superintendent Franklin and his faculty with the plans for organization of the new department.There is nothing that will give a town quite the standing, nor be quitesuch an inducement for the averagegood citizen, the kind of citizen who will be a real asset to the community, to locate in a town, as the fact that the public school of that own has a high standing in the educational world. No matter what facilities may be offered in the way of institutions of higher education} ao matter what private schools of any kind may be located there; what the people are principally and vitally interested in is the public school. Washington,Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Wilson,Coolidge—presidents of this great republic of ours-—have been anient advocates of the public school system of America. Each of these greatleaders, together with scores of othersprominent in the day each of these was in the prime, and hundreds throughout the land today, has givenforth unmistakable pronouncementson this subject. The wise and great of our Nation have always vied with each other as to who could state most clearly his conviction that the public school system of America is the bulwark of our civilization. Therefore, fellow citizens, let us not consider lightly the importance of Monday, September 13, in the future of kerr-vilie, and of Texas.Lynn Burnett and Mrs. Kirk Holds-worth, second grade; Miss BeatriceReal, and Miss Mary Swayze, first grade.Music teachers are to be selected. Mrs. John Stitt, in charge of theMexican school.Mrs. A. W. Doyle in charge of the colored school; assistant to be selected.TEACHERS FOR THE1926-1927 TERMSenior High School, 9th, 19th and 11th grades: Guy C. Moses, principal and Commercial subject*; C. F. Freeman, vocational agriculture andscience; Mis* Blanche Moore, English; Miss Harriet Garrett, history; Miss Jewel Craven, vocational home economics; Miss Ruth Williams, Spanishand mathematics.Junior High School, tith, 7th and 8th grades: Miss Nan Swayze, English; Miss Minnie Dietert, mathematics; Mrs. H. E. Butt, social science; Mrs. T. M. Hammond, health education, girls; Miss Mary Patterson, science; Alfred Laughlin, health education, boys.Elementary School, First to Fifth grades: Miss Emilee Mills, principaland arithmetic; Mrs. J. D. Rose, geography; Miss Willie Holdsworth,English; Mrs. R. A. Franklin, social science; Miss Ruth Garrett and Miss Mildred Saucier, third grade: MissOTHER NOTABLE SCHOOLFEATURES OF KERRVILLEIn addition to our splendid public schools we have assembled at Kerrville a number of other educational attractions. Not only have a number of summer camps been established in this vicinity which are in fact summer schools, but we have here Scofield School for Girls, and Schreiner Institute for boys. This latter institution has been granted a rating very much above the ordinary by the State Department of Education.Announcement has just been made by the State Department of Education at Austin that Schreiner Institute now holds 27 units of affiliation. Coming close on the high rating recently given Schreiner by the Association of Texas Colleges as a junior college of the first class, this means ihut Schreiner’s academic rating among Texas schools is first class in every particular.This unusual rating is due largely to the policy of strict and thorough personal supervision which has characterized all of Schreiner’s work in the past. With a faculty of 15 men, who are all well experienced in deal-ng with and understanding boys and their problems and a limited student body of selected students from various portions of the State, the school has as its aim a healthy, well-rounded life for the boy of high school or junior college age.Back of the school there is a generous amount of money, which provides the best in buildings, laboratories, libraries, as well as teaching force. This endowment is administered indirectly by the Synod of Texas of the Southern Presbyterianchurch.Active administration of the school is under the direction of J. J. Delaney,M. A., Litt. D., who is widely knownin Texas educational circles. Doctor Delaney's entire life has been devoted to understanding and developing boys into fine young men and capable and effective citizens. He has gathered about him at Schreiner a group of men who are fitted by training and experience for the work of boy development.Schreiner is housed in pleasant and comfortable buildings of the English Colonial type of architecture which is admirably suited to the naturally tugged and picturesque Hill Country setting. They are done in tapestry brick, with slate roofing and white stont* trims. Steam heat from a central heating plant provides comfort against the crisp mountain air; hot and cold water in alt buildings, with very modern showers, targe, airy rooms with three-quarters beds, and individual closets make dormitory life attractive and pleasant. The large lounges with open fireplaces are attractive on winter evenings, but most of the year affords such a climate as to make the outdoor life too attractive for staying inside.There is always swimming in the crystal Guadalupe, organized athletic teams in all major sports, with intercollegiate matches; a big gymnasium with indoor courts for basketball, ten nis and volley ball adjoins the large athletic field. There, also, is room for group games and adequate showers and dressing rooms with locker accommodations. A regular nine-hole golf course with hard oiled sand greens and a bowling alley are additional sports attractions.A well organized and thorough training in music is made possible by membership in the 35-piece Schreiner military band under the direction of Anton Ernst, who has behind him years of successful work in the development of amateur musical organizations. In addition to band instructions, students who are interested in orchestra work have an opportunity to develop their talent in the Schreiner little symphony orchestra, an organization which proved very popular for concert numbers during the past year.
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Hill View Times
Kerrville, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 02, 1926
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