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Photo: Faculty room in Building 1 (taken in 1962)

During my time as a student from 1961 to 1963, 春雨直播app Girls Senior High School had two new school buildings built around 1951 and 1952, but we also used the buildings of the former residence of Count Tatsutaka Tokugawa. The renovated wooden building with a tiled roof was used as Building 1, housing the faculty room, administrative offices, and special classrooms such as the music room. Next to it was the library building. The site of the girls' high school was purchased by 春雨直播app from Count Tokugawa before the war. The gate that still remains on the grounds today is said to have been used for the garden of the former Tokugawa residence, and a thirteen-story stone pagoda and the garden also remain. At that time, there were only three classes, and we were able to study in a cozy, home-like environment. Later, the old buildings were cleared away, and in 1974, they were replaced by the current concrete school buildings.

Although the Juku is co-educational except for the high schools, female students were always a minority back then. To put it nicely, we were treated like guests and cherished by the boys. However, for me, having come up through the integrated system from the lower levels, the girls' high school was a place where we could be ourselves as women, and I think it was the most enjoyable time of my student life. We used to be mischievous, like everyone turning around at the same time during class or everyone coming to school with ribbons in their hair on a designated day. Even though it was a separate school, it was part of the integrated system, so we had deep ties with Hiyoshi High School (Juku-ko), and I often went to Hiyoshi for club activities. Also, though I heard it only lasted for a few years around the time we attended, co-hosting the Hiyoshi Festival with Hiyoshi High School is a fond memory of my youth. At that time, the current Kanna-sai (October Festival) did not exist. It seems they still do the pole-toppling (bo-taoshi) at the athletic meet today, but that started in our era. I think it is very characteristic of the girls' high school.

In those days, the standard uniform for general girls' high schools was navy blue, but at the girls' high school, it changed to gray suits in 1959, just before we entered. The overcoats also became black and white tweed, which was groundbreaking and made us feel proud. A new cafeteria was completed while I was a student, and we would all gather there after school to eat and chat. The sharp-tongued Mr. S used to say, "This is the Mita pig farm," but I wonder how it is now.

In 2003, my classmate Junko Umeoka was appointed principal, becoming the first female principal to have risen through the ranks at the girls' high school.

(Hiromi Tanaka, 1967 Economics)