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An Unappreciated Heritage

On Tuesday, June 21, 1910, Jamestown High School held its annual Class Day, the 23rd such observance. Eighteen-year-old Robert Jackson of nearby Frewsburg, New York, who had spent the 1909-10 academic year as a post-graduate student at JHS and was graduating with its class of 1910, was selected to give the student oration of the day. His speech, which we today would call “environmentalist,” described Chautauqua County’s and Jamestown’s settlement and development and called for stewardship by current inhabitants of the beautiful region.