{"id":5462,"date":"2009-08-12T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lps.org\/pedia\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:15:57","slug":"pou-pound-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/glossary\/pou-pound-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"POU &#8211; Pound Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=4740+S%2045%20St+68516,+Lincoln,+Lancaster,+Nebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4740 S 45 St, 68516<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>OPERATION:<\/strong> 1963 &#8211; Present<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pound.lps.org\/\">Web site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pound was named for Olivia Pound who was on the Lincoln High School staff from 1900 until her retirement in 1943. Miss Pound was a Latin teacher, girls&#8217; advisor, and from 1918-1943, assistant principal. During that time she wrote nearly 20 textbooks, contributed numerous articles to educational publications and was president of the National Association of University Women. She died in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia came from an illustrious Lincoln family of educators. Her brother Roscoe became dean of the University of Nebraska&#8217;s law school and eventually dean of the Harvard Law School. Her sister Louise was professor of foreign language at the University of Nebraska for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Pound Middle School welcomed its&#8217; first class of sixth graders in 2003-04, assuming a 6-8 grade configuration for the first time in the forty-year history of the school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCATION: 4740 S 45 St, 68516 OPERATION: 1963 &#8211; Present Web site Pound was named for Olivia Pound who was on the Lincoln High School staff from 1900 until her retirement in 1943. Miss Pound was a Latin teacher, girls&#8217; advisor, and from 1918-1943, assistant principal. During that time she wrote nearly 20 textbooks, contributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-5462","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"related_terms":"","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5462\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/pedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}