McClenaghan High School - Florentine Yearbook (Florence, SC)

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TEACHERS FLORENCE SCHOOLS Bottom Row Miss Olga Smith, Miss Josephine Dickie. Miss Lida Neil, Miss Ethel Black, Miss Gertrude Meares, Miss nnie May Gentry, Mr. J. J. McFall. Miss Emma Hard, Miss Bessie Trevvett. Miss Christine Smith. Miss Lola Lawrence, Miss Ann Martin. Second Row Mrs. Emerson McCurry, Miss Caroline Hood, Miss Dorothy Yvery, Miss L uise Lancaster. Mrs. R. Lee Brunson Miss Marie Gregory. Miss Georgie Stackley. Miss Nona Dudley. Miss Marguerite Murphy, Miss Linda Todd, Miss Marie Jones. Third Row Mr. YY . C. Sullivan; Mrs. B. S. Meeks Miss Lillian Gentry', Mr. K. B. Schoenberg. Miss Alvah Hutcheson. Miss Lucie Miles, Mrs. J. L. ysong. Miss Trix Barbor. Fourth Row Miss Belle Nickels. Miss Minnie Massey. Mr. George Briggs, Miss Florie McKenzie. Miss Rae Elizabeth Gill. Mr. H. H. Jeter, Mr. V. L. Brooker.

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FACULTY OF FLORENCE HIGH JOHN J. McFALL, A. B. Wofford College. A. M. I niv. S. C. English and Latin. Belle Nickels. B. S.. Erskine College. Mathematics. JESSIE L. PORTER, A. B.. Winthrop College. English. WALTER C. SULLIVAN, A. B.. University S. C. History. NORMA HOW LEWYSONG. A. B.. Greenville (College for Women; Virgil Clavier Piano School. New York; Public School Music. Talliesen Morgan School, N. Y. National Summer School of Music. Chicago, III.

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FLORENCE CITY SCHOOLS BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS V V. HICKS, Chairman. J. W. IVEY J. C. McCLKNAGHAN H. K. DAVIS K. K. Cl RRIN MISS TKIX BAKBOR. Primary Supervisor. W. L. BROOK ER. Superintendent Schools. MRS. J. !.. WYSONG. Music Supervisor I he Horence school system was organized under special act of the legislature in 1883. There were then only small wooden buildings in use and a few pupils from the small village. In 1891 the demand for a comfortable building became imperative. To meet the community growth the board erected the first hrick building on Cheeves street. Ibis was used exclusively for all grades until 1908. The growth of the city had been rapid and the handsome Central School on Dargan street was one result of that growth. It was thought that this building would meet the demands of the schools for years. The Central School, however, became crowded before it had been occupied one year. To relieve the congestion the High School was taken back to the old building on Cheeves street. This building is still used as a High School building. ' In recent years it has been remodeled considerably and will be used until the modern building is erected. The growth of the school since 1910 has been very rapid, as has been the growth of our city. The School Board, to meet the pressing demands of progress, built the handsome Park Grammar School in 1916. It has been used during the last two sessions. The three buildings have made it possible to avoid congestion during the last two years. However, the continued growth has about reached the capacity of the buildings. Now all classrooms are in use; further growth will in the very near future demand more buildings and equipment. In 1910 the enrollment of the High School was 81. Now it is 263. This is an increase of 234 per cent. In 1910 the enrollment of the City Schools was 1,019. Now it is 2.786. This is an increase of 162 per cent. In 1910 there were employed in the white schools seventeen teachers, while now there are forty regularly at work. Th High School in 1910 had an enrollment of 81. had a three years course, and was given an official credit of 9.6 standard units by the State Department of Education. Now we have an enrollment of 263, a full four-year course, and is given a credit of twenty standard units by the State Department. During the last six years each class has been awarded the State High School diplomas by the State Board of Education. The School Board has built during this session a building for domestic science and manual training. The equipment will soon be installed and next session there will be offered full courses in the vocational subjects. The Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools has regularly placed the school upon the accredited list of the association. This enables the gad-uates to enter the colleges of the South without further examination.