Jefferson Junior High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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OUR PRINCIPAL Ray Kenyon Savage was born in Oswego, N. Y., May 1, 1879. After graduating from the Oswego High School, he attended the Univer- sity of Rochester receiving the degree of A. B. from that institution in 1903. He served as prin- cipal of Lake View School, No. 7 from 1903 to 1919 when he was appointed principal of Jef- ferson junior High School and is still serving in that capacity. Mr. Savage taught Latin and Greek in the Oswego High School from 1900 to 1902. In 1921 he taught pedagogy at the sum- mer session of the University of Rochester and in 1922 and 1923 gave courses in Education at Johns-Hopkins University, Baltimore, Mary- land. Mr. Savage refused to divulge further facts concerning his life history. He said he would respectfully refer the reader to some more or less remote number of the daily press, for which a reporter will prepare certain copy , and the city editor will pre- scribe the heading obit . 3 +44

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The Junior High as-4wq Zg!wv-4' Those of us who have lived and worked for five years in the spirit of the Jefferson Junior High rejoice in the fact that our Superintendent, H. S. Weet, more than a dozen years ago, caught the vision of the possibilities of this new educational institution and was able to inspire our Board of Ed- ucation with the enthusiasm that resulted in every section of the city being provided with junior high school opportuities for its boys and girls. Seventeen classes from school No. 5, 6, 7, 17, 21, 30, and 34, with their teachers, were moved into the new Jefferson, September 1919 and gradually one type of work after another was added, until in September 1920 Jefferson became a full-fledged junior high school. The plans for this school were drawn in accordance with such building needs as had been dictated by experience in the Washington Junior High School. The cost of Jefferson Junior High School was 2B736,994.30. Its work- ing capacity is approximately fifteen hundred pupils. The building is not complete for junior high work, however, since it does not possess the re- quired provisions for health education. The site at Edgerton Park was pro- vided by the city authorities. At the time this building was erected the city planned to build adjacent to the school a recreation building suitably equip- ped with gymnasiums, plunges, and other essentials in this field, this build- ing to be used by the school during the day and by the adults of the com- munity at such times as the school was not in session. Unfortunately for the school this plan has not yet been realized. During the seventh grade the pupils are all given the same subjects. At the end of the seven A they may elect the commercial, foreign language or technical course, continue the same until graduation, or change to another course at the end of any semester. At the age of fourteen a boy may elect the industrial course and a girl the household arts course, both described later. Here three hours a day of shop work are given to the boys, and three hours of cooking, sewing, millinery, or other hand work to the girls. Three hours of academic work are given in addition to the handwork. Club work one hour a week, when the pupils do the thing they want to do with the companions they want to be with, helps in the performance of the more arduous tasks of the so-called book work. The Friday auditorium meeting brings the various grades together, de- veloping a community spirit and esprit de corps that makes for democracy. The junior high aims to make school a place where boys and girls live the life they should live at the time the school has them, doing the things they should do. learning the things they should learn, developing along all lines rather then merely academic: for the education that best fits for the future is the education that best fits for today. 5