Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE EMMA P. SIMMONS MEMORIAL FUND ISS EMMA P. SIMMONS gradu- ated from the St. Louis Normal School in the class of January, l869. I-Ier name appears in the list of teachers for the year 1869-I870. For six years she taught in the elemen- tary schools. In january, I875, she was transferred to the Branch High School No. I, where she taught until her transfer in ISBI to the Central High School, then Iocated on Fifteenth and Olive Streets, in the building first erected for it, which was dedicated March 24, I856. I-Ier connection with the Central I-Iigh School was continuous from that time until she resigned in June, I9I5, on ac- count of failing health. Her record as a teacher in the St. Louis schools was most remarkable, showing the highest rating throughout her entire connection with the schools, as judged by those whom she assisted. She taught because she loved the work and not merely as a livelihood. She was deeply interested in her pupils, whose future progress she noted after they had passed out of her hands, recalling the elements of character they disclosed while in the school, which were indicative of their future. She found her deepest satis- faction in their growth and development into the fullness of the stature of manly men and womanly women, intelligent, energetic, upright. She devoted herself to her work with- out limit of time or energy and exacted of no one as much effort as she herself put forth in her own preparation and in her instruction. A calm exterior veiled an intense nature and a scrupulous con- scientiousness. For many years, the subject of her study and her teaching was Latin, which was well suited to her painstaking, accu- rate disposition and afforded an efficient instrument for developing in the character of her pupils those traits which she most valued and most assiduously cultivated in herself and in those whom she lived to teach. There could be no more significant memorial to her half century of purpose- ful teaching, by which she sought to lay a firm foundation for useful, effective, worthy, serviceful living, than that which her loyal sisters, faithful to her memory, have established in the expectation that the fund of five thousand dollars they have endowed will help many earnest and capable boys and girls obtain the educa- tion they desire and so fulfill the purpose of the Central I-ligh School, that its pupils may have life and have it more abun- dantly. In grateful recognition of years of lov- ing, devoted, fruitful service rendered the pupils of the Central I-ligh School, this volume of the RED AND BLACK is dedi- cated to the gracious memory of this esteemed teacher. MQW

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The Red and Black Central High School Copyright 1923