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Founded originally as Grace Livingston Hill Memorial School in 1953, Keswick Christian School is a private, Pre-K-12, Christian school with an interdenominational student body, mostly of Protestant background, and an enrollment around 650 students (2007). The campus spans , set among towering oak trees reminiscent of its once rural surroundings, and is located on the outlying area of St. Petersburg, Florida, only about half of a mile outside Seminole, Florida, whose city council annexed the school into its city limits in 2000.〔Norton, Wilma (2000-07-13). "School's Growth Concerns Neighbors." ''St Petersburg Times''. Retrieved April 9, 2007 from Lexis Nexis Academic.〕 The school is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. == Founding == Following a temporary location started with help from (Roy Gustafson ) and her other friends at "the Baptist Church on 22nd Avenue South" in St. Petersburg in 1952, Ruth Munce founded Grace Livingston Hill Memorial School in 1953, naming it after her mother, an author of more than 100 Christian-themed romance novels.〔Miller, Betty Jean (1988-05-30). "Unhappy with Public Education, She Founded a Christian School." ''St.Petersburg Times''. Retrieved April 5, 2007 from Lexis Nexis Academic.〕 Munce felt called by God to establish this private educational facility because no other Christian school existed in Pinellas County, so she purchased a site, an old chicken farm off Seminole Boulevard on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Florida. Munce's philosophy that "God would be the sum of the equation, the Bible a textbook" was put into motion. Classes were held in the chicken house and log cabin-style farmhouse.〔Rosen, Christine (2006-01-03).(Book Excerpt: "My Fundamentalist Education" ). Retrieved April 07, 2007.〕 Munce taught Bible and English courses and remained principal of the school for 15 years, bringing enrollment to as many as 200 students a year. In 1968, at age 70, she undertook an eight-year stint teaching at Nairobi Bible Institute in Kenya.〔Basse, Craig (2001-04-25). (Keswick School Founder Dies at 103 ). ''St. Petersburg Times''. Retrieved 2007-04-03.〕 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「Keswick Christian School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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