"Elena Cuza" High-School
A Historical Evolution

1833	Two great broad-minded men, the landowness Iordache Otetelisanu and Constantin Lazaro founded the first Private School "Lazaro-Otetelisanu" for Young Ladies in our country, here, in Oltenia at that time. The two founders considered that it was absolutely necessary for the benefit of our country to have a special school for young ladies with wonderful teachers and pupils.
1848	During the Romanian Revolution, here, in Craiova, this school was the centre where the propagandist club which had among its members great personalities such as Theodor Aman, Gheorghe Chitu a.s.o., developed most of its activities.
1860	The Private School for Young Ladies was taken under the leadership of the Romanian state.
1864	The school became the most important state educational institution and it played the role of the first School Teacher Training Institute for Young Ladies in Oltenia.
1877	Together with all the citizens of the country the teachers and the pupils of this school made a great effort to support the struggle of the Romanian people during the Independence War, 1877-1878.
1893	In 1883 the school was called in turn the Pedagogical Institute for Young Ladies in Craiova and in 1893 the School Teacher Training Institute.
1905	The name of the school was changed into "Elena Cuza" II Grade Secondary School.
1906	The teacher Smaranda Celarianu, a real example of devotion and professional competence, was the headmistress of the school between 1900-1921. She published the first monograph of the school in two editions. This monograph became the fundamental document for the later writings about the historical evolution of the high-school.
1914	Due to the fruitful effort of an active comunittee whose leader was the teacher Despina Teodorescu, this year marked the publication of the first number of the school magazine entitled "Our Magazine".
1929	June 10th represented an important date because they started building the fondation of the schooland. Everything was finished in 1935.
1948	August 3rd: The Education Reform took place. Our school is famous owing to the excellent results of its teachers and pupils and it develops its entire acivity according to the demand imposed by the progress of our science. Taking into account the transformations which took the place within the structure of the Romanian educational system the high-school changed its name as follows: it was called "Elena Cuza" Secondary School for Young Ladies until 1951; The School no.1 for Young Ladies until 1959; The School no.3 until 1966; The High-School no.3 until 1976; The High-School with Scientific and Humanistic Sections until 1977.
1977	The school was called The High-School of Filology and Hisory and it preserved this name until 1990 having sections of filology and history; biology and chemistry; physics and chemistry; electromechanics.
1990	The school got back its name and it was called

"ELENA CUZA" THEORETICAL HIGH-SCHOOL