Information Sheet

 

 

R         Strafford High School (Strafford, Mo.).

853                  Booklet, 1920.

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This is the Catalogue and Course of Study for Strafford High School at Strafford in Greene County, Missouri, for the academic year 1920-1921.

 

This 16-page booklet, entitled Catalogue and Course of Study of Strafford High School, Strafford, Missouri, 1920-1921, sets forth the rules, curriculum, calendar, and faculty for Strafford High School.  O. E. Burke served as Superintendent and Miss Aileen Jones was Principal.  Classes began on 31 August 1920, with Commencement Exercises scheduled for 6 May 1921.  A photo­graph of the school building provides the frontispiece of the booklet.

 

Reflecting the institution’s motto, “Stay With The Farm,” Strafford High School provided training in Vocational Agriculture to its male students, under the supervision of teacher Arnold A. Sather.  Female students were offered a more traditional academic curriculum.  The school ex­pected to “qualify for the Federal Aid received by schools teaching Vocational Agriculture.”  Be­ing “fully approved by the state department of education,” graduates could enter the state univer­sity system without examination.

 

The institution solicited “non-resident pupils,” noting that “as a school town Strafford is unexcelled by any small town in the State,” having “no theaters or other attractions which will di­vert students mind from school work.”  Two literary societies were to be organized, a “high class Chautauqua” was scheduled, and the use of “chewing gum, cigarettes, or tobacco in any form upon the school premises” was expressly forbidden.

 

 

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