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Minden High School (MHS) is the public secondary educational institution in Minden, a small city of 13,000 and the seat of Webster Parish located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. MHS houses grades nine through twelve (and a small number of eighth graders) but originally handled grades one through eleven prior to the establishment of the twelfth grade. The school is under the supervision of the elected Webster Parish School Board. ==School history== Minden was founded in 1837 by Charles H. Veeder, a New York State native who shaped the community into that of a parallelogram and divided the area into lots. He named the settlement after the home of his ancestors in Germany. Minden thereafter became the largest town in old Claiborne Parish, a part of which was separated to be included in the newer Webster Parish, named for Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster. In 1838, Minden received one of the first charters for a public school from the Louisiana State Legislature. Though the school charged tuition, it was open to all white children. Hence known as the "Minden Academy", the school later split into the Minden Male Academy, with later state court Judges John D. Watkins and A. B. George for a time as principal, and the Minden Female College, both of which operated into the late 1890s. The current Minden High School is located on College Street on the site of Veeder's original Minden Academy. In 1897, the Webster Parish School Board voted to establish a central high school in Minden. The trustees of the already existing Minden Normal and Business College offered a building. In 1900, the reconfigured Minden High School had two graduates: Dora Dupuy and Theressa Grigsby. These two young women began high school when the school was established in 1897 (as noted earlier). The Commencement Program of that graduation still exists. In 1901, the first year of its existence as a high school, MHS graduated one senior, Harry Crichton. Since that time, more than six thousand have received diplomas from the institution. From 1913-1917, the principal was John Barnard Snell (1884–1959), husband of short story author Ada Jack Carver Snell and father of David Snell, journalist and cartoonists with the defunct ''Life Magazine''. Snell left the position for military service in World War I. On his return, he operated a successful cotton gin. The historically black Minden Union School was established in 1923 and in 1941 was renamed Webster High School. One of the Webster principals was Robert T. Tobin, the interim African-American mayor of Minden in 1989.〔Pat Culverhouse, "History comes alive for grads", ''Minden Press-Herald'', July 30, 1993, p. 1〕 In 1974, Webster High was blended into the desegregated Minden High School. As a result of the consolidation, the MHS Class of 1975, with 248 graduates, became the largest in school history. Other high schools were established in the Webster Parish communities of Dubberly, Heflin, Sibley, Doyline, Shongaloo, Sarepta, Cotton Valley, and in Springhill, the second largest city in the parish located adjacent to the Arkansas state boundary. Since the closure and razing in 2011 of William G. Stewart, there are three elementary schools in Minden: E.S. Richardson, J. E. Harper and J. L. Jones, named for another former Webster High School principal. These schools send pupils to Webster Junior High School, which in turn directs them after the eighth grade to Minden 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「Minden High School (Minden, Louisiana)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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