Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Cedarhurst, NY)

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NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE Miss Elsie Tefft joined the Lawrence High School Faculty in 1920 after preparation at Alfred and Cornell Universities. During the fifteen years Miss Tefft has spent in Lawrence she has given generously of her time and ability to the cause of education. She has served almost continuously as Faculty adviser to Junior and Senior classes. For two years Miss Tefft served as President of the local Teachers’ Association. For the past two years she has served as chairman of the American History Committee on Curriculum Revision of the Lower Hudson History Teachers’ Association. Miss Tefft is now serving on a state committee to revise the entire Social Studies Syllabus for New York State. Page five

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THE LAWRENCIAN To Miss Elsie R. Tefjt High hopes, great enthusiasm, a difficult task, and little experience. This was the situation facing the newly-elected board which was to prepare the annual Lawrencian. Perhaps the most serious problem to be solved was the lack of experience on the part of the members of the staff. A bewildering number of advertisements, bids, and solicitors descended on Lawrence High School once again, enclosed in a protectively dense fog of technicality. The fog must be penetrated, the contracts must be awarded, the material must be assembled, and of course, the project must be financed. To Miss Tefft, Adviser of the Senior Class fell the difficulty of coordinating the efforts of the various committees toward a successful performance of these tasks, of advising the staff members of their duties and then judging the execution of these duties, and probably most important, of guiding firmly and tactfully the delicate Craft of Policy. A huge order, and one of whose results we know Miss Tefft is, and should be proud. And so, in a spirit of the greatest respect and gratitude, we dedicate this book to Miss Elsie Roana Tefft. Page four

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THE LAWRENCIAN COMMEM On April 23, 1635, the citizens of Boston assembled at a town meeting, voted the establishment of the Boston Latin School to train boys for the ministry. This was the first act of its kind in the New World. By the end of the century, forty such Latin Schools had been established in New England. The era of the private academy followed next. This type of institution was adopted early in New York State where it flourished for a long while. In 1824, in Massachusetts, an institution of secondary education received the name “The English High School”, the first time that the designation of “High School” had been used to denote such an institution. A complete history of education would fill countless volumes, and it is not our purpose to give such a history here. In one hundred eighty-nine years, a system of education has been erected which, while nominally like the present one, was barely recognizable as its predecessor. Its curriculum bore almost no resemblance at all to the Pane six