Chester High School
The
Cestrian,1934
Chester County, South Carolina
The Chester Junior College
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J. Anderson, C.
Adams J. Brockman, T. Burris J. Caldwell, A. Collins J. Colvin, F. Dye W. Kennedy, A. Hastings |
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L. Miller, M.
McKeown S. Hellman, H. Moore W. Moore, J. Moore A. Wilkes, W. Neeley L. Warmouth, V. Schulte |
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The Chester Junior College Our Superintendent, Mr. M. E. Brockman, in the late fall of 1932 began to talk of the possibility of a Junior College for Chester. Mr. Brockman realized taht, with economic conditions as they have been for the past few years, nubmers of the finest students graduating from Chester High School would not be able to attend college. These students, he felt, needed to be given an opportunity to continue their educaiton, and because of his untiring efforts, he succeeded in establishing this fall the first Freshman class of the Junior College. Mr. Brockman, after studing carefully the courses offered both in the freshman classes of standard Junior Colleges and in the leading educaitonal institutions of South Carolina, planned an adqueate course of study, which follows in every detail the freshman course offered at the University of South Carolina. These courses are in the usual freshman subjects, English, History, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and French. The instructors in the Junior College here in Chester keep in close contact with the heads of these various departments at the University, and several times during each semester there is a faculty conference in Columbia, which enables the Junior College teachers here to keep their work in closest harmony with that of the University Freshman class. The Junior College movement is growing both in popularity and influence in many of the states. College authorities have realized and statistics have shown that there are fewer failures among students who have taken their first two years in Junior College than among those who entered their freshman year at an educational institution of higher collegiate standing. Naturally, in Junior Colleges the unit of students is smaller, and thus more individual attention is given to each student. This fact along with that of perhaps stricter discipline, fewer outside attractions, and a quieter campus life than is found in a large school accounts for the higher standard of scholarship in the Junior College student than in the first two years of the usual University student. There are twenty students enrolled in the Chester Junior College. They have, as a whole, been doing fine work, the standard of which is fully equal to that of the freshman class of any of our state institutions. It is hoped that a large number of the graduating class this eyar will be able to enroll in the Junior College next fall. |