Des Moines Technical High School - Engineer Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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The fourth teacher was added to the high school corps in ISSZ when W W Ainsworth came as the first teacher of book keeping the school had known Physical culture was first introduced in l885 when Miss Kunkle began her work raising the number in the corps to five But all this time the enrollment continued about the same and no efforts seemed to avail to raise it above l D0 During the principalship of Mr R D ones who succeeded Mr Cary in ISS3 the first regular high school paper the Hrgfi School Herald was published Alice Qlark being editor in chief and Falk Younker business manager The first of a long series of debating societies was organized in 1883 f erhaps a forerunner of the athletic trips of a latter day may have been the trip made during this administration by a class of boys and girls to the town of Panora of athletic fame where they entertained the admiring citizens by such mild forms of athletics as wand drills and fancv marching exhibitions in an overheated diminutive hall called an opera house Mr ones was succeeded in l886 bv Mrs L T Morrow during whose term the board of directors began a more liberal policy tow ard the school which resulted ln the beginning of what has been constant growth ever since The beginnings of a commercial course were made in H386 another teacher was employed science was made more of a feature and laboratory methods were introduced and on the nineteenth day of April ISS9 the school dedicated its that Des Moines now had a high school building that would serie and be sufficient for the needs of all future time But new accommodations and new advantages attracted pupils and the growth of the school has been very rapid At this time there were 2 l 0 pupils in l892 the 300 mark was passed and in l896 the enrollment was 476 ln l889 Mrs Morrow was succeeded by Miss Celia Ford w ho was principal for two years Mr H T Kincaid sersed as principal from I89I to l893 followed bv Mr William Wilcox from l893 to 1896 Manual training and domestic science departments were opened in September l89O and much advancement was made in all lines of work during this time Perhaps the first appearance of athletic activity of definite form was in the organization of a football team in l892 and since that time this has been a factor of high school life of eser Increasing importance The golden age of the high school came not at the beginning but in its most recent history The administration of Principal W O Riddell beginning in 1896 and closing but a few months ago was an era marked by great advancement in equipment by development of the courses of study bv increased influence and reputation of the school and by the growth of a school spirit and loyalty which means much more than is generally understood But extended treatment of this penod is perhaps unnecessary at this time The most notable event was the addition of the new building which was occupied for the first time in Qctober 1903 Mr W A Crusinberry who entered upon the duties of the principalship in January l905 had already been connected with the school for so long a time and had so favorably impressed teachers and pupils that his commg from North High was but the return of an old fnend rather than the beginning of a new rule ALBERT W MERRILL seventeen ANNUAL W D M , 'K I , . . ' l 9 0 5 . . 1 , J A I . . I V n , .n H new building, a part of the present school plant. At this time one of the speakers remarked

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ANNUAL Clddl D Spellxng Rerclmg DCHHIIIODS !Xlllhl'IlLllL Geography Grammar U S lll tory Penman hlp Detlamatlon Compo mon Smgmg X D fladr C Spelling Readxng Dehmtron XfltllII1ttlk GIBHHHII Xlgelmra Penman hug D V lamatlon Composition Slnglng Cm H Xlgebra Lreornetrx Natural P no ophw l atm Compo mon Grade A lrlgonometry X tronomy Latrn SUINQYIHQ Botany Qomposmon Rhetorlr lr IS an hlstorlc fact that four students escaped nelxous prostratlon and w ere graduated from that course at the end of four xerrs haung supposedly torled through the entlre lust from spell lng to surx ewlng During lts hrs! wear the high school had to gnc up lts commodlous quarters on the second floor and moxe into the prlmarv room VNl'llCll department was crowded and needed more space Ar the close of the year Mr Barrows appears to hawe severed hrs connectlon wlth the school Although the only record regardlng the electron of the second prlnclpal names D Hornby as the successful candxdate the salary lOl the posltlon during the latter part of the year atleast x as drawn by Mr F W Corlrss who remamed 1 prmclpal untll the tall of 1868 when he was succeeded bv Mr W A Wlllls who serwed unt1l l87O Lpon the compleuon of tht becond Ward lDlJllLllI'lQ now l mtoln School ln l868 the hrgh school w as moxed to the thrrd floor of that bulldmg occupymg one large room and two small recltatlon rooms There were at :hrs tlme three teachers for the school but tht number of puplls 19 not recorded Professor bnow Mxss Mann and Supermtendent H Thompson are named as prlnclpals bc tween 1870 md l8l3 each serxmg one vear Ar thus trmc began the the years of ser uce of Nlr A N Qzras w ho dld much to orgamze and strengthen the work of the school and to gne rt standrng locally and abroad Durlng hrs term the enrollment ran from 100 to l 50 and three teachers w ere employ ed Another of the long occupancles of the prmcrpalshlp begms rn l878 when I r1nc1palL B Qarv assumed the posltlon Mr C arv w as verv popular wlth puplls and patrons and the high school w as a prominent factor rn the town llfe For a number of years two lrterary socletles existed rn the school w huh held meetings alternate Frldax ucmngs ln the high school room and these exenmg entertamments w ere xerx hlghlx consrdercd by the young people ln the school and out Some of the literary and muslcal numbers appearing on these programs were of consrderable merlt Fach soclety ran one ol the old fashroned school papers x hlch were read instead of belng printed and these occupied fully as lmportant a place ln the school llfe as The Taller does today Allred to the literary society worlc w ere the declamatory or so called oratorlcal contests the first of w hrch m l87J or IS76 was won bv Wlll now udge McHenry Later the school entered the state declamatory contests whrch are still being carned on by the smaller schools of the state These contests took the place to some extent of the athletlc contests and mterscholastlc debates ofthe present day whrch were then unknown The gold medal for first place at these contests was won for West Des Mornes ln l882 by Ida Clemens In I884 and ISS5 by Edith Payne ID ISS6 by Rose St john and ln l887 by Florence Musson XICCII l 9 0 5 n .Y ' . ' ,Q T. N. .' 5 l V 1 V - - 'S '- 's , - , s .. . is ' -N V , ' ' . v H S, l ' V.: '. S 1. ec- : Ju . .- 5 . N ' .4 s , I, 1 su . Vg 1 fl S 7 4 I U, - . .1 W , i .W . . x , . - N . . , , ' A ' ' v' , ,. i - , 1' ' , , ' , . , v. ' ' . . . ., ' ss - y I. I v V V , ' , . , Y . . . , , . . K, - , , - 2 , S ' 7 ,. . X 1 ' , K - , , 1 , .' 1 . t . , , , .. . . . . . . . r 5 'c H ' , 1 ' . . D ' I . ' , ' - V ' :I ,f v yr.: -v K -x H. , A I , ' . . ' ' ll ll . ' . , . J - . .r, x K , ' ' ' . . . - n ' u A U -Y , , ,- v . - y . si

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