Central High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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Sofin Herbert fillips! John Herbert Phillips was bom in Covington, Kentucky. December 12, 1853. He attended several institutions of learning, graduating with an A. B. degree from Marietta College in 1880. Later he studied as a post-graduate at the universities of Edinburgh and Chicago. In 1905 he received an LL. D. degree front Marietta College, and in 1906 an LL.D. degree from the University of Alabama. Dr. Phillips came to Birmingham in July, 1883, and at once began his work in the public schools. In September, 1883, he founded the present system of public schools. He was elected superintendent of the schools in the same year, ami has continued his active and valuable services, raising the number of public schools from one white and one colored to thirty-five schools for white and twenty for the negroes. Along with his work in the public schools, Dr. Phillips founded the Public Library, which had its beginning in his office in the old High School building. He had direct charge of the library until a regular Library Board was appointed in 19‘3- Dr. Phillips has been active in other phases of educational life. He was President of the Southern Educational Association 6 ' in 1895 and President of the Council of the National Education Association in 1902. His pen has not been idle, for he has contributed to numerous magazines and is the author of several books containing valuable information. “History and Literature in the (irammar Schools,” was published in 1892: The Negro and Education” in 1894; “Old Tales and Modern Ideals” in 1905. Birmingham owes a great debt to Dr. Phillips for his work. To pay this debt we can only give him our deepest love and respect.

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