Weymouth South High School - South Yearbook (Weymouth, MA)

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SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL 1854-1986 The first high school in Weymouth was established in 1853 in the Town House that was located in the geographic center of Weymouth at Washington and Middle Streets. The following year the School Committee decided to establish two high schools. For the first five months the school was held in Rogers Hall on Pleasant Street, South Weymouth for students in the southern end of Town. The Chauncy apartment building now occupies the site. The next five months the school was moved to Weymouth Landing for students from North and East Weymouth. In 1865 Two separate high schools were established in the Town. In South Weymouth the students attended classes in the vestry of the Union Congregational Society on Pleasant Street and in 1868 The High School moved back to Rogers Hall where it remained until the completion of the first High School building in South Weymouth in 1874. The site chosen for the new school was on Torrey Street on the site now occupied by part of the Old South Union Church. The school opened its doors at the beginning of the second term in the spring of 1875 and was called the Torrey Street School. A few years later the name was changed to the Howe School in recognition of Dr. Appleton Howe, a prominent physician of South Weymouth. Dr. Howe was a former State Senator and for many years was a member and Chairman of the Weymouth School Committee. The faculty consisted of two teachers, Mr. George B. Vose, who was also the Principal, and Miss Alice R. Rogers who was the Assistant Principal. Their annual salaries were respectively $1,300. and $450.