Tag: Chapman School

  • Slabtown Nob Hill Fun Fact #28: The Simpsons in Portland

    While Simpsons creator Matt Groening attended Ainsworth Grade School, the elementary school in The Simpsons is called Springfield Elementary. The schools have matching floor plans and similar facades. Both the fictional school and real school have experienced almost constant reductions in their budgets, with deferred maintenance and overcrowding the norm. Springfield Elementary is filled with […]

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  • 11 6x8 grade white children sitting at a dinning room table the teacher is at the head of the table there might be a schooll cafiteria behind. All the plates are empty but every plate setting would be 4H contest level today there are two american flags as center pieces

    Fun Fact #23 Headaches of Overcrowding

    Headaches of Overcrowding: The WWII Schooling Crisis at Guild’s Lake Courts and Chapman Grade School (Note: Reflecting on modern Portland Public Schools (PPS) enrollment challenges, this history highlights a time in during WWII when local schools faced unprecedented wartime overcrowding. When Dr. March wrote this blog post over a decade ago Chapman School was once […]

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  • Text: Old Chapman School. NW 25th and Wilson - 1891-1923- Photo taken about 1910 - Destroyed by arson fire in 1924.

    Fun Fact #5 Who Burned Down Chapman School?

    Answer: Sheepherder John Hardy burned down Chapman School on Wilson St. in 1924. John Hardy claimed he didn’t have any reason for destroying the old Chapman School with a single match. “I just did it,” he admitted. The paper from 1924 lacks today’s political correctness their by-line “School is burned firebug confesses, John Hardy, Sheepherder, Fires Chapman […]

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