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Jerry Ellis
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Posted: Sat Dec 9th, 2006 06:53 am |
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Greetings:
I host a Web community that you may enjoy. It's called Miami Jackson High School Alumni Forum and we have over 500 members.
At Miami Jackson High School Alumni Forum, you can participate in the message board or jump into the chat room.
To join our discussions, simply go to:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/miamijackson/start
If you have any trouble signing in please contact me at: jerry@lords.com .
Miami Jackson High School Alumi Forum is part of http://DelphiForums.com. If you've never used DelphiForums before, you'll need to go through a quick registration. It only takes a minute and it's free! Unfortunately, we had some trouble makers from another high school and had to make the forum private.
Hope to see you there,
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bessnfloyd
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Posted: Sat Dec 9th, 2006 06:54 am |
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I just discovered amongst my stuff this history of Jackson High. I have NO idea where it came from or how accurate it is.
HISTORY OF MIAMI JACKSON Seventy-five years ago Jackson's great and proud tradition had its beginning. It was 1898 when a man by the name of L. J. Becker donated a plot of land on which a one-room, log cabin structure was to be built and used as a school. Mr. Becker donated the material and he and his pioneer neighbors set about building a school that was someday to be known as Miami Jackson.
There were only 14 pupils in the first term, three of whom were Becker's own children. The little school had one teacher covering all eight grades in the school. In those days the northwest section of Miami was still a "wild and lonely territory"; the teacher "rode her bicycle through a path cut through the underbrush, accompanied by one of the older boys for protection."
Years later a four-room concrete structure was built with a five-room annex added later on the north side of the building. In 1925 the increased population in the northwest section made another small building necessary, and some rooms were rented in a nearby church. These buildings were damaged and destroyed in the severe hurricane of 1926. Later that year a three-story high school was added to aid over-crowded Edison and Miami High.
Jackson's first principal was J. A. Wheeler, followed shortly by A. C. Alleshouse who was to contribute much to the school's growth.
By 1935 the school population, including the first nine grades, totaled 1,800. The school closed that year in December because of severe cold.
The tenth grade was added in 1936 with plans to drop the elementary grades and make Jackson a junior and senior high. That same year the first issue of the Globe was published and the clubs presented the last assembly of the year. A student government was created with a tenth grader elected as governor. The first minstrel show was presented by the Hi-Y Club.
In 1937-38 Jackson embarked on its first sports endeavors. Twenty-two football players averaging 150 pounds beat their first opponent, Ponce de Leon's (Coral Gables) B-Team, 30-3 The team finished the season with an impressive 5-2 record. Later in the year the basketball team lost its debut to Ponce, 32-11, but the baseball team won its first game 10-1 from the Gables team.
In 1939, Andrew Jackson had an enrollment of 1,219 for both junior and senior high. That year Generals beat Okeechobee 54-6. A Jackson girl, Rosemarie Magrill, was named Miss Florida. Seventy-four students had the honor of being the first graduates from Jackson. This was the first senior high class.
The following term Jackson beat the powerful football machine of Edison, 7-0. At that time there were only three schools in the county: Jackson, Miami High, and Edison.
In 1945 the first yearbook was published and Mr. Matthews became principal.
Last edited on Tue Jan 2nd, 2007 04:57 pm by bessnfloyd
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Posted: Tue Mar 13th, 2007 02:54 am |
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Great to read about Miami Jackson! This is what Wikipedia says about Rosemarie Magrill:
Rosemary (stage name Rose Marie) Magrill is Miss Florida of 1939.
At the time she was crowned as Miss Florida, she was underage at only 14 years.
In order to compete in the Miss Florida pageant, girls were required to be at least 18 and were carefully screened for age, but there were 260 other girls in the contest and the woman who did the screening was momentarily distracted when Rosemary's turn came up and she got by without having to answer the all-important age question. Her true age was not revealed to the contest officials until she was already in Atlantic City competing for the Miss America title. In order to prevent embarrassing questions about why she had been allowed to slip through, she was permitted to continue with the contest where she ultimately ended up as a semi-finalist.
After the Miss America contest, she remained in New York and went on to a 30 year career as a Broadway dancer. A November 2006 article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinal lists her as a dancer with the Duke Ellington Review and George White Scandals among numerous others.
She was the cover girl for True Story magazine in October, 1939 which can be found frequently for sale on eBay. As of 2007, she is still alive and teaching dance classes weekly at the age of 82 in Pompano Beach. She never tires of dancing and frequently has to stop so that her students can catch their breaths.
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Posted: Sat Mar 31st, 2007 10:03 pm |
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| What about Miami Beach High, Ponce de Leon High, and Tech High in the old Roosevelt Hotel site?
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 04:50 am |
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| are you sure that only three high schools were in force in 1939?
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