San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-09
MANY Opportunities Offered
by Modern improvements
in System.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Expect New Buildings to
Be Completed in
November.

idea into the plan of instruction. San
Antonio public schools will open Mon
day for the beginning of new school
year that will be without precedent in
the history of this city. Radical
changes in the school system along
modern lines of development, together
with an extensive expansion OF the
school plant, will offer opportunities
to the more than $1,000 school emil
dren Of this city that they have not
heretofore had. members of the school
board believe.
Great interest is centered upon the
junior high school plan which has
brought about reorganization of the
public school system. In the junior
high schools, the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades will be taught. Thus
the schools will be divided into three
general divisions, namely. elementary
schools, junior high schools and senior
high schools.
Although an extensive building pro-
gram is already under way. none of
the new buildings, including junior
high school structures and elementary
schools, is ready for occupancy 1T this
time. BY November, it is believed.
several of the junior high schools will
have been completed.
Half Day Sessions.
Lack Of completed junior high
school buildings, however, will not
initiate against the junior high school
method Of instruction being introduced
at the beginning of the school year.
Junior high schools will occupy as tenn
porary quarters, certain elementary
schools. With one exception, that of
the Thomas Nelson Page junior high,
which will occupy the Breckenridge
Grammar Schoo! building, the junior
highs will hold halliday sessions from
II 80 to ) 80 o'clock in the after
moons. Elementary grades will occupy
the buildings affected by this arrange
ment, in the mornings.
Various junior high schols will &C
cupy elementary buildings as follows
until their respective school building
have been completed:
The Mark Twain School will oc
cupy the Stephen A. Austin building
the Nathaniel Hawthorne School, tn
Eleanor Breckenridge building; Ralpl
Waldo Emerson School will be quar-
tered in the Robert Il. Lee build
lug: Edgar Allen Poe School. th,
Highland Park building: Joel Chand
Ter Harris School, the Briscoe build
ing; Sidney Lanier School. tbs
Breckenridge Memorial building
Washington Irving School. the Davit
Crockett building, and the Thoma,
Nelson Page School, the Breckenridge
Grammar building.
In order to care for the excess pu-
lie -, Ill H.
grades, a third senior high school will
be in operation this year in addition
TO Breckenridge and Main Avenue
senior high schools. This third senior
high school is named after General
Sam Houston. 1t will occupy the Ben
Milan School building, Mason and
blackberry streets. An elementary
school is being constructed in the vi
cinity of the Ben Milan School, and
10 this new building elementary pupils
now attending the Ben Milan School
will be transferred following compile
ton of the structure. Halliday ses.
slons will be necessary until the new
elementary building is erected.
No Senior Class Yet.
approximately 400 pupils will be
accommodated in the Sam Houston
High School. Those pupils who have
been designated to attend the San
Houston School have been notified BY
letter. Upon the principals of Brack
enridge and Main Avenue Higl
Schools has fallen the duty of des
ignating the pupils who are to at
tend the third high school. The 10
cality of the homes of the pupils hal
been the determining factor.
No senior class will be taught il
the Sam Houston School this veal
although the other high school classes
will be included. Galen Jones. former
~ of the teachers college of Colum
bia, has been elected principal of tn
school.
With the introduction of the JUNO
high school plan, radical changes il
the plan of direction and super
vision of school work has becom
necessary. All junior high school wor
will be under the charge Of Waite
ID. Cooking, director of junior educa
ton. Mr.. Cooking, formerly superiu
tendent of schools at Strom Lake
Iowa, was connected last gear wit
the state university of Iowa where b
acted as an instructor while doin
postgraduate work.
nave TOuF DlTetOrS
Under the director Of junior hig
schools, are four directors of specif
departments. Merrill Bishop of Sa
Antonio who has been engaged !
army rehabilitation work, is directr
OF English; j. +. Howard, formerl
teacher of mathematics in Bracket
ridge high school, is director of II
DEPARTMENT of junior high MATTHEWS
lies; Raymond II. Brewer of Pale
tine. prominent in intercollegia
athletic activities, is director Of phys
cal training; c. c. Ball. former
engaged in army rehabilitation VOL
Mt Cedar Rapids, Iowa. is director
tie department Of related arts.
Principals of the junior hi,
schools are:
Mark Twain School. J. A. Cool
Nathaniel Hawthorn. Miss Mary HUI
pertz; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nj
Kate Schenck I: Edgar Allen Poe. Y
III. Bowman; Joel Chandler Harris,
= Eakeley; Sidney Lanier, J. q. 10
tin: Washington Irving. G. \
iotke: Thomas Nelson Page. A.
Bush. Approximately 10 teache
will be engaged in junior high scho
work.
Enrolment Of pupils in the juni,
high school grades will take pla,
Monday afternoon. The period fro
u 30 20 . 80 will be confined to Il
enrolment Of pupils in the sixt