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is a United States Department of Defense Dependents School on Okinawa. Kubasaki is the oldest existing high school in the Department of Defense Dependents Schools system. Kubasaki High School has withstood destruction from fire and typhoons on six campuses in five locations and with four names. ==History== The first classes started sometime in November 1946 at a site named Okinawa University Study Center in Camp Hayward with Dr. Theodora J. Koob as its founder and first principal.〔CORRECTIONS TO THE POST-WAR HISTORY OF AMERICAN DEPENDENT SCHOOLS ON OKINAWA 1946-48, 2010 Donn Cuson〕 Classes were held on the site of Okinawa University Study Center in a large quonset hut under the name "Okinawa University School".〔Pacific Stars and Stripes 28 May 1949〕 The first classes consisted of 30 students and faculty; the initial schedule consisting of a half day, six days per week and was inclusive of only six grades.〔 Middle and high school grade children were included sometime between November 1946 and March 1947.〔〔Association Research Materials on the Camp Hayward Campus http://www.kubasakihighschool.com/page/okinawa_university_school〕 The school newspaper was ''The Quonsetter''. There was no yearbook printed in 1947.〔Kubasaki High School History 1946 to 1964, 2011 Donn Cuson / John Scruggs〕 In the fall of 1947 classes opened the school year in a group of 15 Butler-type prefabricated buildings in the Awase housing area with 177 students and 11 teachers serving grades 1 through 12.〔A Monograph on the Okinawan Educational System 15 May 1948〕 1947-1948 was the first year that high school seniors attended Okinawa University School.〔 A problem with graduating seniors was the lack of accreditation of the school; however, on March 11, 1948 through the efforts of Dr. Theodora Koob, Okinawa University School received accreditation from The Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools.〔 The first school yearbook was printed in 1948 and was called the ''Torii''. The school newspaper was called the ''Typhoon''.〔〔Typhoon 1948 http://www.kubasakihighschool.com/torii/1948〕 In July 1949, Typhoon Gloria destroyed the school and delayed the opening of the school year.〔〔1950 Torii http://www.kubasakihighschool.com/torii/1950〕 When school did begin, teachers and students were forced to conduct their classes in two temporary family residences in the "New Sukiran Housing Area" (Zukeran, now known as Camp Foster).〔〔 In November of that year, the school name was changed to "Okinawa-American Dependent High School" and moved back to the Awase Housing Area in quonset huts.〔〔 Later, communist aggression on the Korean Peninsula necessitated a ban on dependent travel in East Asia, resulting in few new students enrolled until 1951.〔 At some point before 1952, the school name was changed to Okinawa-American Dependent School. In 1952 during the publication of the fifth ''Torii'', the Dragon was chosen as the mascot.〔〔1952 Torii Yearbook Forward http://www.kubasakihighschool.com/torii/1952〕〔Association Research Materials on the Awase Campus http://www.kubasakihighschool.com/page/okinawa_university_school_awase_campus〕 By 1952 rising enrollment forced a move to another set of quonsets at the Army Training School at Camp Kubasaki.〔 The high school kids were moved to the new campus at Camp Kubasaki while the elementary and middle school kids remained at Awase. The name of the high school was changed in the fall of 1952 to Okinawa-American Dependents High School.〔1953 Typhoon Newspaper〕 Sometime between the fall of 1952 and the fall of 1955 the school name was changed again to Kubasaki American High School,〔Typhoon Newspaper 1955〕〔(Association Research Materials on the Camp Kubasaki Campus )〕 In 1958, the school was moved into partitioned barracks in the Port Wheel area of Naha. By the early 1960s, the school was hosting grades 10 through 12. In 1964, the school moved to its present and permanent location in the Kishaba Terrace housing area, adjacent to the U.S. Army post of Fort Buckner, and was renamed Kubasaki High School. 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「Kubasaki High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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