Juden School

Juden School circa 1950s. See 1956 classroom photo below. (G.D. Fronabarger, Southeast Missourian archive)

Juden School

Out of the Past, Southeast Missourian

November 27, 1915

Nellie Holcomb, 19, teacher at the Juden School, three miles north of Cape Girardeau, sprang into the creek near the school Wednesday morning and pulled out a drowning boy, 7-year-old Eugene Jones, one of her pupils. Soaked to the skin, Holcomb and the older boys succeeded in resuscitating Jones. After a quick change of clothes, Holcomb returned to school and took up classes, only slightly late from the morning's heroics.

April 12, 1930

Fifteen children, pupils in Juden School No. 1, and three adults, including their teacher, had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday, when a motor truck in which they were returning from a school meet at Egypt Mills left the highway and crashed into a ditch near the Lutheran church there; the children escaped virtually unhurt, although they were thrown out of the truck when it turned over on its side.

March 10, 1931

A special meeting of patrons of the Juden School District will be held tomorrow at School No. 1 to discuss construction of a new school building to take the place of two separate schools now maintained by the district; the district is immediately north of Cape Girardeau.

August 26, 1952

Juden School No. 2 and land on which it is located will be put up for sale soon by school board; building and ground became Cape Girardeau school property in 1947, when extension of city limits included area; building is no longer used, and school board has decided to sell tract of land, fronting 400 feet on Vincent avenue, by 120 feet on Country Club drive.

January 30, 1960

The school being built north of Cape Girardeau will be named for long-time rural teacher Nell Holcomb; Holcomb served various schools for some 44 years, her first charge being Coker School; others have been Juden School, Egypt Mills School, Randles School and the new elementary school at Jackson; this year, she is doing substitute teaching at May Greene School in Cape Girardeau.

[The school was closed and the district became part of the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District which opened in 1960. The R-4 district combined the small schools of Indian Creek, Iona, Egypt Mills, Brooks, Coker and Juden.]

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From The State Historical Society of Missouri:

Place name:Juden No. 1 School

Description:A rural school in the eastern part of Cape Girardeau Township, named for John Juden, Sr., a native of England, who came to Missouri in 1805. This family has been prominent in Cape Girardeau County many years. When a second school was built in the same township the numbers 1 and 2 were used to distinguish them. (Kiehne, Douglass I 199)

Source:Hamlett, Mayme L. "Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938.

Published Saturday, Feb. 4, 1956 A day at Juden School. This is a scene in one of the two rooms of the Juden School, Cape Rock Drive, where fifth graders do their problems at the blackboard, a group of eighth graders (standing at the wall at the left) observe, and sixth graders study at their desks. At the blackboard and wall are Sharon Pender, Bill Palmer, Gary Sample, Gary McClard, Kenny Ervin, Wilma Jo Williams, Donald Griffaw, William Brockmire, Lester Sample, Ray Schweain and Donald Parks. Seated, back row: Francis Cannon, Edward Parks, Charles Cannon, Raymond Nichols and Janet Green; second row, Helen Parks, Ruth Koerber, Jane Riley, Mike Lowes and Robert Adams, and in foreground, Loretta Ford and Carolyn Wilkerson. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)