Denfield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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OUR SCHOOL' The Duluth Denfeld Senior High School is situated in the western section of Duluth between Forty-fourth and Forty-sixth avenues west and between Fourth and Sixth streets. It is located in the residential district on a plot of ground con- taining fifteen acres. The building is H shaped. The structure is made from brick with stone trimming, and is three stories in height. The south wing of the school is devoted to the auditorium, gymnasium and locker rooms, the north wing contains the sciences, music and manual arts, while in the central part are the study halls and the recita- tion rooms. All of these rooms have the best heating, lighting and ventilating systems. As the enrollment of the school is over thirteen hundred it is necessary to have accomplished instructors in most every subject that can be taught in a high school to accommodate the students wishing to have varied courses. The courses given in Denfeld are in compliance with the requirements of the State Board of Education, but are at the same time flexible enough so that the student may select various combinations of subjects to fit his respective needs, whether it be for college, university entrance or to enter his life's work. There are intensive extra curricula activities designed for the purpose of dis- covering and developing talents which lie dormant. Some of the activities that may be participated in are: athletic, drama, oratory and declamation, music, club life, pageantry, stagecraft, and the Five-Cent concert activity and publica- tions. The Five-Cent concert activity was designed to give expression to all the other activities that relate to that particular field of work. The building of character is the underlying factor of all of these activities in the school. Each individual is given opportunity so that he becomes aware of the important fact that honest endeavor and his real conduct is the criterion by which he gains his reputation. The slogan which includes these factors is, Do as you please, remember to be a lady or a gentleman at all times. Among the things accomplished through the work of the student body with the cooperation of the faculty and the community are the following: a very good pipe organ has been purchased and paid for, properties for school and stage use has been purchased amounting to thousands of dollars 5 equipment for the band and orchestra has been supplied, the initial order for the school costumes has al- ready been made and asures their use by next fall, and the idea of buying uniforms for all the organizations that will benefit by them is now being throught over. The Denfeld High School has gained a marvelous reputation and we hope that it will never be marred. -I 171-

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MRS. KATHERINE WEID, B. A., M. A., Dean W, A+ Fl 19 I..