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Jessup Elementary is inviting students, parents,
alumni and the community to take a trip down memory lane as the school
celebrates its 50th anniversary on Nov. 14-15.
The school will hold its “Stroll through the Decades” program at 1:45
p.m., Nov. 14 in the campus gymnasium. A “Sock Hop” will then follow at
6 p.m. in the cafeteria. Celebration activities continue the next day at
the school’s Old Fashion Carnival from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 15.
Jessup Elementary opened on Sept. 5, 1958 and is named in honor of the
late Charles D. Jessup, who served as a judge and the school district’s
attorney from 1942-1957. Voters approved the funding to build the school
in a 1955 bond issue.
A time capsule was placed near the cornerstone of the school during its
construction. During school renovations in 1999, the capsule was opened.
In the capsule, a resolution from the Board of Trustees written in 1957
shared their admiration for Jessup saying he was a man with “sterling
character, devotion to duty, steady energy and personal skill.”
Retired Pasadena Superintendent V.W. Miller shared his thoughts about
future generations passing through the school’s doors in the same 1957
Board resolution.
“The future of our country lies in the hands of the children who occupy
this school and others like it,” he said. |