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Lausanne Collegiate School, originally known as Lausanne School for Girls, is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian school in Memphis, Tennessee, for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. It was named for the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, known as a European center of education. Mission :''"Lausanne Collegiate School is a coed, nonsectarian school whose mission is to prepare each of its students for college and for life in a global environment."'' () Motto "Knowledge, Truth and Honor." ==History== Lausanne Collegiate School evolved from a select girls’ school to become a culturally diverse, co-ed, process and technology-oriented, globally conscious collegiate prep school. Founding 1926—Central Ave. In 1926, Mrs. Emma DeSaussure Jett, Miss Bessie Statler and two other veteran teachers left St. Mary’s Episcopal School and founded their own small, K-12, private girls’ school in a spacious residence at 1649 Central Avenue in Memphis. The school was named after the Swiss city of Lausanne, a recognized center of educational excellence, and the area from which Mrs. Jett’s DeSaussure ancestors had migrated to America. Lausanne emphasized small classes, a nurturing environment, inspiring teachers and highly individualized instruction. The 1929 stock market crash was just three years after Lausanne’s founding and yet the fledgling school managed to survive the Great Depression. Move to Union—Headmistress Cobb Even with the return of prosperity following World War II, Lausanne’s viability remained tenuous. Mrs. Jett and Miss Statler had grown old and were in uncertain health. If Lausanne were to survive, it needed significant growth in enrollment and significant economies of scale not feasible at the Central campus. Fortuitously, the physical plant of recently dissolved Pentecost-Garrison School at Union Extended and Hollywood became available in 1952, and Lausanne secured a favorable lease on the property. To facilitate the school’s continuation, Principals Statler and Jett converted what had been their proprietary school to a not-for-profit educational foundation. During the early years on Union, there were problems with the school’s management, its enrollment declined, and it again seemed in danger of becoming defunct. Lausanne families, however, fought back. They held fund raisers like carnivals and spaghetti suppers to help generate revenue. More productively, Mrs. Nelse R. Thompson, a long time patron of the school and a member of the educational foundation’s board, determined to make the school financially secure. Working in tandem with Headmistress Myrtle Cobb, whom the board had hired away from a tenured position at Memphis State College, Mrs. Thompson pulled off a near miracle. Her personal donations and astute solicitations insured the raising of sufficient funds for a new beginning. Within two years, Lausanne had purchased a twenty-acre campus site on Massey Road and had also acquired the funds necessary to build an impressive physical plant. Part of Mrs. Thompson’s plan for the school was to provide a prestigious boarding environment, which for a number of years brought in significantly more income than its operations cost. Boarding School—Headmaster Coppedge 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「Lausanne Collegiate School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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