Port Jefferson High School - Crystal Yearbook (Port Jefferson, NY)

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LTY F ACU SCHOOL HIGH

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BOARD OF EDUCATION .Mr. Charles W. Dare, President Mr. A. O. Smith, Clerk Mr. A. G. Loper Mr. Grover Woodard Dr. B. F. Many Mr. Wells Ritch Mr. George E. Darling High School Faculty Earl L. Vandermeulen ---- Syracuse University Principal Edward H. Kiessling ----- Syracuse University Asst. Principal-Mathematics-Science Dorothy B. Johnson ----- Middlebury College French-Biology Ruth E. Avery ----- Mount Holyoke College A History-English Gladys E. Wilkin ----- Syracuse University Latin-Algebra Ruth Consaul ------- Potsdam Normal Commercial Subjects Ruth Denman ------- Wellesley College English-Librarian Mildred McMurrin ----- New Paltz Normal Junior High--Algebra-Commercial Geography Carol Overton ------ Syracuse University Junior High-Civics Mollie C. Lawrence ----- Plattsburg Normal Music-Drawing Earl Thompson -------- Syracuse University Physical Training-Algebra

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4 g .f ,Q-. . V 72, . Q NT'- YV' THE HISTORY OF FORT JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL A great many people do not realize that Port Jefferson has progressed along educational lines as well as in other Ways and so we think it altogether fitting and proper to give a short history of Port Jefferson schools. The first schoolhouse H8205 we are told, was situated at the corner of Main and Thompson Streets, where the new library now stands. This was used until 1836 when, the old buidling having been sold, a new one was erected on the corner of Thompson and High Streets, the present site of Mr. Isaac Jones' home. This building was of the little red school house type and served its purpose until 1850. The enrollment had grown so large that a larger building was obviously necessary, so one was erected on the site now owne dby John L'Hommedieu. The property cost ninety-five dollars and the building eight hundred dollars. Doubtless to the citizens of Port Jefferson that represented a grcat deal of money and it is needless to say it was well spent. But the town was still on the upward climb and in 1862 an addition was built at the cost of twelve hundred dollars. In 1890, accommodations were stil linadcquate and it was voted that a new building be placed on the present site of our school. Additions were made to that building in 1896 and the school had grown so that twelve teachers were being employed. On the morning of July 4, 1913, however, the building was found in flames and the fire had progressed so much that it could not be saved. Naturally the year 1913-14 was a hard one for the pupils and teachers, who were forced to seek accommodations in the Post Oliice building, the basements of the Catholic and Methodist Churches, and in tlieapartrnents above S. S. Brewster's store. No time was lost ,however, and on September 28, 1914, the pupils of Port Jefferson entered the new High School which had been raised at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars and which is still serving the youth of our village. That is the past of Port Jefferson High School: the present is that we are still going strongg although it is not permitted us to know the future, I think we are safe in saying that it won't be so very many years before we'll need more space. NOTE - Historical information secured from material in Directory of the Public Schools of Second Supervisory Districtu, compiled by Roscoe C. Craft, District Superintendent. T ' Y W, 1 Y, .lm