John Joseph Murphy Memorial Higher Secondary School

John Joseph Murphy Memorial Higher Secondary School

John Joseph Murphy Memorial Higher Secondary School is a secondary school located in Yendayar, Kerala, India. It is managed as part of the Kanjirappalli educational district, and has centre code 32011. [cite news |title=Educational District: Kanjirappalli |url=http://www.kerala.gov.in/results/sslcsay/new/result32Ns.htm |publisher=Information & Public Relations Department, Govt. of Kerala |accessdate=2008-06-28 ] The school was opened in 1982 by Mr. Michael A. Kallivayalil with the wholehearted support of local people. The school established in the name of Mr. J.J. Murphy (1872 - 1957) one of the most successful individual British planters in India.

According to local tradition, Murphy named the place that was to be his home till death in 1957, after his mother and the local river. Yendayar is a combination of ‘yen’ (my) ‘thai’ (mother) and ‘ar’ (river). Murphy had come 103 years ago to the place which was a thick forest and had no name or people then. He had traveled a long way to reach there. There he established India’s first successful rubber plantation.

The Higher Secondary Section of the school was started in the year 1998.

The school has performed consistently well in athletics. [cite news |title=Action shifts to track and field |url=http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/03/stories/2007120355611700.htm |work=The Hindu |date=2007-12-03 |accessdate=2008-06-26] In April 2007, during the 51st Kerala School Games at the Nehru Stadium, student M.M. Anchu won the the senior girls’ 100m hurdles. [cite news |title= Three meet records set |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007120499521700.htm&date=2007/12/04/&prd=th& |work=The Hindu |date=2007-04-12 |accessdate=2008-06-28]

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