I have two cards from North Cosmopolitan School in San Francisco dated 1868. Miss Late Kennedy, Principal. According to a note there were couple of locations. My gggrandmother attended the branch on Broadway Street and her brother the main school at the corner of Mason & Taylor streets. I would love to know the history of this school and would appreciate any help or suggestions! - Lynn

PAlbe74721@aol.com wrote: > > I have two cards from North Cosmopolitan School in San Francisco dated > 1868. Miss Late Kennedy, Principal. According to a note there were > couple of locations. My gggrandmother attended the branch on Broadway > Street and her brother the main school at the corner of Mason & Taylor > streets. I would love to know the history of this school and would > appreciate any help or suggestions! - Lynn Lynn, here are a couple of interesting links... At Ron Filion's San Francisco History web site: http://www.sf50.com/sf/hgoe11.htm At Bill Roddy's America Hurrah! web site: (note this may appear as a two-line URL) http://www.americahurrah.com/SanFrancisco/MunicipalReports/Schools/DistrictSpringValley.htm Have fun! Pam psw@sfo.com -- Pamela Storm Wolfskill The USGenWeb Project, San Francisco http://www.sfo.com/~timandpamwolf/sfrancty.htm

Hi Lynn- Here is a bit of the history of the school-----I am sending this also because it tells a good history of the study of languages in the San Francisco schools in this time period............. SF Muni Report of 1879-80 gives reference to:: COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL- A school for teaching the French and German languages was first instituted in October of 1865-, in a small building on the lot now occupied by the Tehama Street Primary School. This school was commenced for the purpose teaching only such children as desired to acquire a knowledge of the French or German language, and at first the institution was mainly confined to teaching these languages, but the liberal offer of teh Board of Education to instruct the children of the city gratiss in forieign languages, soon made this system of instrucion so popular with the public that the Board of Education in October , 1866, reorganized them and changed their classification, so that instead of devoting much time and attention to teaching French and German, nearly all the pupils' time was occupied in the English studies. This change in the organization of the Cosmopolitan Schools has increased their number, but it has seriously injured their real usefulness, which should be to teach the French and German languages. In 1872-73 instruction in the French and German languages was introduced in nearly all the public schools. The little children of the primary schools, as well as the larger ones in the grammar classes, were compelled to study either German or French, and the pupils in the grammar classes were compelled to study _both_ French and German in the Cosmopolitan Schools. In Feb, 1874, The Board of Education abolished the study of all languages other than the English, except in the Girls' and Boys' High School. In July 1874 the study of the French and German languages was again introduced into the South Cosmopolitan, the North Cosmopolitan, the Hayes Valley and the Valencia Grammar Schools; also into the South Cosmopolitan, the Stockton Street, the Taylor Street, and the Silver Street Primaries. At the present time (1878-80) German is taught in the Greenwich Street Primary , and the South Cosmopolitan Primary Schools, and French and German are taught in the Boys' High and Girls' High Schools, the North Cosmopolitan and South Cosmopolitan, and Hayes Valley Grammar Schools, and the Bush Street Primary.... ===================== Carolyn PAlbe74721@aol.com wrote: > I have two cards from North Cosmopolitan School in San Francisco dated 1868. > Miss Late Kennedy, Principal. According to a note there were couple of > locations. My gggrandmother attended the branch on Broadway Street and her > brother the main school at the corner of Mason & Taylor streets. I would love > to know the history of this school and would appreciate any help or > suggestions! - Lynn