White Plains High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Choccolocco, AL)

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Administration What a great appreciation we should sho s the instructors and founders of the first public schools. Just think what we would have missed if there had been no schools. The first school on Alabama soil was founded by John Pierce at the Boat Yard, on Lake Tensaw, in 1799. In America the first school had its beginning in the city of Boston in the early part of the seventeenth century. At first there were no school houses for the children to go to school. The only ones who received any education were the children of well-to-do families who had money to pay a tutor to teach them in private homes. The first attempt to provide regular schooling seems to have been in 1704 with the foundation of Trinity school. The most notable of the early school laws was that of Massachusetts in 1647, which may be said to have laid the foundation for the present free elementary and free high school. The high school came into being in the last half of the nineteenth century. The number of high schools have increased from forty- four in 1890 to twenty eight thousand credited now. Before the Revolution, in the South there prevailed no general school system. Educational opportunities have increased so much in power and number through these years that the teachers and administrators of the past and present consider their time well spent for the benefit of many, for now there are six million high school students. Page 6

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Dedication WE, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1938, DO DEDICATE THIS THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE PLAINSMAN TO OUR HONORED PRINCIPAL, MR. H. D. NELSON AND OUR BELOVED CLASS SPONSOR, MRS. RUTH BUTENSCHON, WHOSE HELP AND COURAGE ENABLED US TO BUILD THIS BOOK. Page 7

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