Morgan City High School - Tiger Yearbook (Morgan City, LA)

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Principal, and his assistants were Misses Rose Verret a n d education arose in our community. In fact, the number o f pupils attending school increased so greatly that it became necessary to replace this one room school house and to build our first two-room school, a little red building which stood on the spot new occupied by the Methodist Parsonage. On September le, l900, when the School Board met a n d elected MIM Wilbur Krammer superintendent, they decided t o divide the Parish of St. Mary into several districts accord- ing to the wards. They also agreed that schools should be located in these districts, provided that the School Board should incur no expense in building, renting, repairing, o r keeping the buildings in good condition. In short, the School Board would be responsible for nothing except Apaying the teachers, and purchasing the furniture, and school sup- plies. Morgan City along with Ramos, Amelia, Berwick, a n d Bayou Wax fell into the sixth district. At this same meet- ing, a resolution stating that the school in Morgan City be known as the Morgan City Grammar School and that it should have at least seven grades of study, four primary and three grammar, was adopted. It was further decided that Morgan City would have three teachers, a principal paid a salary of S75 a month and two assistants making S340 and a month respectively. During this session, Mr. W. C. Garret w a s Irene Harris. By 1901 the Morgan City Grammar School building had be- come overcrowded and needed an addition built to it. Mr. Thomas Shannon, representing the Town Council, appeared be- fore the School Beard to present a remedy for the situation. He stated that the council proposed to construct an addition to the school house, to cost not less than the amount due for taxes, if the School Board would accept this addition as payment of the delinquent taxes. So it was that in return for a receipt of the taxes of 1888 and 1889, Morgan City rc- ceived a larger building. For the term 1901-1902 there were again three teachersg the enrollment was one hundred and thirty pupilsg the month- ly payroll one hundred fortywfive dollars per monthg the P A ' D 3 V , average number of childre per -child per month one only to compare this with how far our community has In 1902-1905 another Cit School. lt ized the need of asked the School Thomas Shannon, a larger Board to per teacher forty four, and cost dollar and eleven cents. One has such items of today to appreciate gene in the field of education. teacher was added to the Morgan was during this year that the people real- building. Mayor Thomas Shannon approve a committee consisting of R. A. Squires, Gus Drews, J. R. Drackett,

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