Name/Title
Bliss School Badge, c. 1930Entry/Object ID
AM2015.2.210Scope and Content
Bliss School Badge, c. 1930. Felt Badge in gold & black with "Bliss" in banner across its face. Small size, may have been patch for a letter jacket. Bliss was an elementary school, the Former Wyatt Park School which was replaced in 1916 with a new school at 30th & Lafayette in St. Joseph. MO. It was converted to a junior high school in 1931 and closed in 1973.
The school was named for Judge Philemon Bliss, a justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1865 to 1891 and Dean of the Law Department of the University of Missouri. He was an early member of the St. Joseph School Board.Collection
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Thirtieth Street & Lafayette Street, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Bliss Junior High School, Lafayette Street, Thirtieth Street