Ferris Girls' Junior & Senior High School (フェリス女学院中学校・高等学校 ''Ferisu Jogakuin Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō'') is a junior and senior high school for girls in

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History

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, 2014. (paperback) 9781925021950 (ebook). Retrieved on April 5, 2015. "The following September, after the Hepburns had left for Shanghai to attend to the publication of his dictionary and the translations of the Gospel of Mark, Mary limited the class to girls. And thus the inauguration of "Miss Kidder's School for Girls," known as the first school of higher learning for women in Japan. In October 1871 she had twelve girls: .. The Hepburns had established their girls' school in 1862. Kidder established her "Miss Kidder's School for Girls" after the Hepburns left Japan. This was Japan's first mission-sponsored school, and the country's first higher learning institution for women. Initially Kidder's classes had boys, but in September 1871 she restricted her classes to girls only. The school was named "Isaac Ferris Seminary" (フェリス･セミナリー ''Ferisu Seminarī''), after the head of the Reformed Church Board of Foreign Missions Isaac Ferris, in 1875. That year, its school and residence facilities were built at 178 Yamate. It was renamed to Ferris Waei Jogakkō (フェリス和英女学校 ''Ferisu Waei Jogakkō''; "Ferris Japanese-English Girls' School") in 1889. Mary Deyo of New York was a teacher at Ferris Seminary from 1888 to 1894. During the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 the headmistress, Mrs. Kuyper, died, and school buildings were destroyed. A building in the Yamate Campus named after Kuyper, Kuyper Memorial Hall, opened in 1929. In 1941 the school was renamed Yokohama Yamate Girls' School (横浜山手女学院 ''Yokohama Yamate Jogakuin''); this temporary name change occurred during an anti-English language sentiment during World War II era Japan.Ishii, Hayato.
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''. Retrieved on 5 April 2015. It was renamed Ferris Girls' School in 1951.

Notable alumnae

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* Sayumi Horie * Yurie Miura * Mayumi Miyata * Wakamatsu Shizuko

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Notable alumnae

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