Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-21

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steam table. used to keep the food
warm, was installed this year.
Girls Sell Cooking
The cooking classes in high school Of
ten sell their products through the cafe
terra and the proceeds are used for
identifying the class rooms and for
other purposes. The pupils of these
classes also are given training in guam
tlty buying and in preparing meals for
large numbers.
Mr.. Voc, superintendent of the sys-
TEN, has a statewide reputation as a
school executive and much of the pro-
gress made in the past few years is at
tribute9 to his capable direction.
The senior high school has an en-
rollment of 265 and W. A. Rasco is
principal. There are 10 teache,s in the
faculty. The junior high has an en-
roliment of 400, a faculty of II teach.
ers and n. o. Rasco is principal. The
grammar school has about $50 enrolled.
a faculty of % teachers and E. C. Dodd
is principal. The Fourth ward school
has 222 enrolled and has six teachers.
Miss Rachel Clearwater is PRINCIPAL. Al
West Brownsville school there are 125
pupils enrolled under four teachers o.
which Mrs. Margaret Yarbrough is prin-
cipal. The Victoria heights school has
"a pupils and Mrs. Daisy Taggart is
teacher. The Colonia Mexicana school
has an enrolment OF SO. Miss Amelia
hernandez is teacher. Included in these
figures are about 70 children which are
brought in each morning from Ell Jar.
din and Media luna in two large motor
trucks.
Almost one thousand pupils attend the
parochial schools. The Academy Of the
lncarnate Ward and St. Joseph's college
IN Brownsville and the Catholic schools
OF the city nave for many years played
an important role in the education of the
young.
Back in 1853, only three years after
the city of Brownsville had been in
corporated, and four years after the
Obiate Fathers forged their way into
the Valley, the nuns of the Incarnate
Word, a French order, Started con-
structlen work on the convent here. In
1868 the institution was completed, hav-
ing to be almost rebuilt after the dis
asterous storm of 1867.
The convent was the only educational
institution in Brownsville for a num-
Der of years and children of all denomi-
nations took advantage of it to secure
an education. Following the storm and
Its destructive work, the Guadalupe
school for girls, the first parochial
school to be built in Brownsville. was
constructed.
This school is near the convent on
st. Charles and Seventh streets, and the
two are connected by an archway over
Seventh street. A short time after the
completion of the Guadalupe Schoo'
girls, the ST. Joseph's college was com
pleted, this being a school for boys.
Lack Of financial SUPPORT was one OF
the chief drawbacks to the college in
its early days, but it has since become
well established as an educational in
stitution in the city.
The next Catholic school to be con-
structed in Brownsville was the Imma-
culate Conception school in 1906, for
boys, near the corner of Fourteenth and
jefferson. This school building was
erected on the site formerly occupied
by the Immaculate Conception church.
In 1912 another p%arochial school, St.
Francis school for both boys and Girls
was erected at the corner Of Tyler and
Eigth, this school building being con
structed with funds Finished by the late
Mrs. Felicitas Yturria, who also left an
endowment for the school for 10 years
when she died in 1919.
The regular school work is carried
ont in all of thaSa rnStit,t,orc -s+L
special courses in painting and music
being gwen at some of them, notably
at the convent. The parochial schools,
Guadalupe school. immaculate Concep-
tion school, and st. Francis school, are
under the direction OF the Oblate Fa-
theirs, headed by Rev. Charles A. Sero-
rcs. These schools are supported by
the parish, and no charge is made to
the pupils who attend.
All of the school buildings are of
brick and stone with the exception Of
st. Francis school for girls, which j.
a frame building. The only one of the
Catholic schools which carries on high
school courses at the present time is.
the convent, in which advanced work Of
regular high school rating is given. The
present plan is to add another story
next year to ST. Joseph's College, and
give high school. work there, as one of
the brothers is in the University Of Tex
as at the present time preparing to
teach the work.
Enrolment in the various catholic
schools are: I~ncarnate Word academy,
pa; st. Joseph's college, TIA; Guadalu-
pc school. II; Immaculate Conception
school, las; St. Francis school, l04 boys
and 136 girls.
There are two teachers at the Qua
dalupe school. three in the Immaculate
Conception school. six at st. Francis
school, % at the Academy of the Incarn-
ate Word, and seven in st. Joseph's col
lege.