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Good Shepherd Lutheran School was a parochial school in Inglewood, California, affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, Pacific Southwest District (LCMS). The school opened on February 10, 1936, and closed on June 12, 2003. It had a history of 67 years as an institution. ==History== "The Good Shepherd" is a metaphor which refers to Jesus as the shepherd who laid down His life to save His flock. Good Shepherd School was founded as a mission institution of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in the middle of the 1935-1936 academic year. Classes were held in a house on Spruce Street which doubled as the church sanctuary. Walter A. Uffelman (1912–1982), a 24-year-old Missouri Synod schoolteacher, was called to serve as the school’s first principal. He came from his native Nebraska by rail to Los Angeles County to assume his new position, accompanied by his wife, Luella (1913–1999), who served later as the kindergarten teacher of long standing as the school’s size expanded. The initial enrollment of pupils in the school, coming in the middle of the academic year, amounted to just nine children;〔 and Uffelman doubled as their teacher. Uffelman was both the first and longest-serving principal of Good Shepherd School, working as the administrator for 41 years until he reached retirement age in 1977.〔 As Good Shepherd Lutheran School and Church grew, in 1941 both institutions were finally able to move to a new property at the corner of Grevillea Avenue and Arbor Vitae Street in Inglewood. The new building complex, actually consisting of two separate structures, was called the Parish Hall. Worship services of the church were conducted in the auditorium portion of the Parish Hall. Once the school expanded to the point that each grade could be organized as a separate, individual class rather than be combined, kindergarten, first, and second grades met in classrooms in the separate and smaller school building on the south end of campus. Within the main Parish Hall itself, third, fourth, seventh, and eighth grades met in the south wing of this building. Sixth grade met in a classroom in the center portion of the building which attached both the north and the south wings. Fifth grade met in an upstairs classroom above the Parish Hall’s Sunday worship sanctuary. The playground and open space of the school was on the east end of the campus, facing Maple Street. In February 1959 Good Shepherd Church opened a new worship sanctuary (although nearly all construction was done in 1958) on Maple Street. But the Parish Hall continued to serve as the school building for 11 years longer, with Sunday School classes in the former worship sanctuary. Good Shepherd Church reached its largest size in 1967, with a roster of 1,900 members on paper. The school’s enrollment also gradually expanded. Because of the church’s large size at the time and the problem of airplane noise from nearby Los Angeles International Airport ever increasing, the church elected to build a new school building at the end of the 1960s. In fact, "aircraft-produced noise levels exceeded those considered healthy."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cityofinglewood.org/pdfs/police/1960s.pdf )〕 The calendar goal for the completion of construction was 1969, but a number of labor strikes forced the deferral of its opening until 1970. The new school site was known as the ERA Building, ("Education/Recreation/Administration") facing Maple Street. The Parish Hall was sold to another Church in Inglewood and was moved in 1970; the rest of the buildings were torn down. The South wing of the old Parish Hall had actually weathered a minor fire to a few roof shingles in 1969, when embers flew over from a garage fire on Walnut Street. The playground area was now located on the south and west sides of the campus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good Shepherd Lutheran School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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