1929-1961
Junior High School
Kimberly High School functioned as the normative high school for the district for just twenty-two years before transferring to a junior high school. Thus it became known as Kimberly Junior High School, and the high schoolers attended Neenah High School, located at 600 Elm Street, Neenah, WI 54956 (now known as the Shattuck building). Kimberly Junior High School consisted of 7th and 8th grade students, while the elementary age students attended the ward schools. Charles F. Hedges continued his role of superintendent and principal of the Kimberly building until his resignation in 1946.
What is currently known as the NJSD Building remained Kimberly Junior High School until 1961, when the main function of the building shifted to different focus again.
A Personal Account
Junior High School
Kimberly High School functioned as the normative high school for the district for just twenty-two years before transferring to a junior high school. Thus it became known as Kimberly Junior High School, and the high schoolers attended Neenah High School, located at 600 Elm Street, Neenah, WI 54956 (now known as the Shattuck building). Kimberly Junior High School consisted of 7th and 8th grade students, while the elementary age students attended the ward schools. Charles F. Hedges continued his role of superintendent and principal of the Kimberly building until his resignation in 1946.
What is currently known as the NJSD Building remained Kimberly Junior High School until 1961, when the main function of the building shifted to different focus again.
A Personal Account
Robert Law went to the Kimberly Junior High school in the mid 1930s. As a fifth grader in the Washington school on Walnut street, he reports walking over to use the Kimberly school gym. Because Washington didn't have a sixth grade, Robert and his classmates used the rooms that are now used for board meetings. As Robert put it, "We were a self contained sixth grade. All of the other elementary schools had their own sixth grade buildings" (Behnke). Law took wood working classes in the basement. As a seventh and eighth grader, he reports using the upstairs auditorium for assemblies and study hall. |
Robert Law, 83, Sixth grade student in Kimberly Junior High |
Behnke, Duke. "Century of Service." News-Record [Neenah] 19 Dec. 2007: 1+. Print.
"Back to School." Future Neenah Magazine n.d.: 6. Web.
“School History” by Neenah Joint School District Employee, Mrs. Helen L. Roberts. Compiled in December of 1997 and January of 1998
"Back to School." Future Neenah Magazine n.d.: 6. Web.
“School History” by Neenah Joint School District Employee, Mrs. Helen L. Roberts. Compiled in December of 1997 and January of 1998