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St. John's College has three divisions, and a number of central academic centres and activities. Through its three divisions, it offers a wide variety of liberal arts and science courses at the secondary, British A-level, and United States junior college levels. St. John's College is a Roman Catholic institution in the Jesuit tradition, one of the oldest, largest, and most diverse educational institutions in Belize, founded by the Jesuits in 1887.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=St. John's College Website )〕 The three divisions of St. John's College are: * St. John's College High School, Belize (oldest, established 1887) * St. John's College Extension (established 1957)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.sjc.edu.bz/#!history/cj90 )〕 * St. John's College Junior College (established 1964)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.sjc.edu.bz/academics/junior_college )〕 Key Centres and Institutes of St. John's College are: *The Belize Centre for Art Education and Cultural Understanding *Institute for Workforce and Economic Development *Belizean Studies Research Centre〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://redlyne.wix.com/sjcbz#!belizeanstudies/c18ls )〕 *Counseling Centre〔 ==Foundations== St. John's College was founded in 1887 with the establishment of the “Select School” for young men at the Catholic presbytery, Holy Redeemer Cathedral in Belize City. The founder of St. John's College was Fr. Cassian Gillett, one of four brothers, British Jesuit priests, who arrived in Belize in the 1880s. The school opened with twelve day-students and two boarders. According to the 1897 prospectus, the school’s mission was “to afford the youth of the Colony, and the neighboring Republics, the means of obtaining a solid mental and moral training.” It added that Belize needed “a school of Higher Studies so that our youth would not have to go abroad for preparation for university work.” The school grew quickly. In February 1896, it moved into a newly constructed building on the cathedral grounds. Its name changed from the Select School to St. John’s College, under Fr. William J. Wallace. The enrollment continued to expand, and included boarding students from neighboring Central American republics such as Guatemala and Honduras. This steady expansion forced a second move, to seafront land supplied by the government to the south of town. On July 17, 1917, the faculty and students moved into spacious wooden buildings with wide verandahs and windows open to the sea breeze. The campus was called Loyola Park. More construction followed including a gymnasium and chapel. By 1929 there were 90 students at the College. August 1921 saw an outbreak of yellow fever at Loyola Park. Day students returned to their homes for hospitalization. Boarding students were first taken to a small island just off the coast, Moho Caye. From there boarders from the rural areas of Belize, Yucatán, and Guatemala returned home but those from Honduras were refused admittance in their country. They were quarantined at Sargent's Caye. Two students and two faculty members died before the fever passed. On September 11, 1931 one of the worst hurricanes to hit Belize took 2,500 lives including 11 Jesuits at Loyola Park, where the buildings were leveled and splintered. SJC returned to the cathedral grounds where it remained until 1952, when it moved to its spacious new Landivar campus northwest of town.〔Woods, Charles M. Sr., et al. ''Years of Grace: The History of Roman Catholic Evangelization in Belize: 1524-2014'' (Belize: Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, 2015). Passim.〕 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「St. John's College, Belize」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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