"What We Like Most About Rufus King High" by Marion Treloar, Sarabel Plummer, Louis Degner, Shirley Turner, Richard Schulz, and Edmund Mackett Chamberlin, principal, that "it was a very busy war out here at King." There is a world of meaning in the words of Ralph G. The Red Cross found Rufus King students ever willing to pitch in. Outstanding work was also done in the tin collection and clothing drives. In the waste paper salvage drives, the school collected a total of 2,500,000 pounds or almost 1,300 tons. Rufus King also earned a certificate of merit and special awards for building more than 500 model planes for Navy instruction. For its work in bond and stamp sales, it received the Sentinel's Iwo Jima plaque and an original oil painting from the Treasury Department for outstanding achievement in the 8th loan drive. The school presented the Army with a medium bomber, the Navy a torpedo bomber and also purchased by bond sales two field ambulances, a jeep and 48 hospital units. Approximately $2,000,000 was sold in stamps and bonds, with $197,400 being subscribed during the 8th Victory Loan Drive. The war activities board was organized to sponsor and promote all war activities, and its job was completed in January, 1946. Enthusiasm for getting things done doubtless stemmed from the fact that there are 148 blue stars on the service flag, with 47 gold stars shining through. Rufus King High compiled an outstanding war record that reached into many patriotic directions. The homeroom becomes an orientation center for each student where an attempt is made to understand and provide for his complete needs - social, vocational or intellectual. In addition to its complete curriculum, Rufus King High offers it students a wide range of extra curricular activities and approximately 2,000 students are enrolled in them, or an average of one outside activity per student.Įach student is assigned to a homeroom, averaging 35 students, for his four years and the first period each morning is spent here. Add to this the fact that he was president of Milwaukee's first baseball club. King was chairman of the Wisconsin constitutional convention at the time of Wisconsin's entrance into the Union a brigadier general in the Civil War, and was appointed minister to the Vatican by Abraham Lincoln. They must not study aloud, or make any improper gestures or unnecessary noise." They must be careful of their school books which are not to be soiled, torn, or scribbled in. "The pupils must all appear at the appointed hours, with their hands and faces clean and their hair combed, free from lice, itch, scald head, and other contagious diseases and with their clothes clean and mended." While in his education capacity, he helped frame and early rules observed by Milwaukee public school pupils, some of which follow: One of his innovations was examinations given to teachers, thus obtaining better teachers than most cities had at that time. King had a deep interest in education and as the first school board president and superintendent, serving without pay, he helped establish the Milwaukee school system as one of the finest in the nation. Though graduated from West Point, he disliked army life and became the Sentinel's editor when was only 30 years old. The school received its name from the great general and statesman, Rufus King, who was editor and part owner of the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1845 to 1861. Then the 7th and 8th grades were dropped and Rufus King became a senior high school only. Rufus King High was opened in September, 1934, with the 7th through the 9th grades, and a grade was added each year until the first graduating class of February, 1938. Olive St., has the largest enrollment in the city for the third consecutive semester. Second youngest public high school in Milwaukee, with some of the finest facilities in secondary education today, Rufus King High, located in a residential area at 1801 W. School Names for Former Editor of Sentinel "Young Rufus King High Has Largest Enrollment"Īn article and student essay about Rufus King High School from the Milwaukee Sentinel's series "High Schools on Parade." Children in Urban America - Marquette Universityīrief history of children in urban America
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