Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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M. A. H. S X , J,.,- . ' I. 1' 1 x 1 . MR. LANGE A ZVVOH' A ITIZENS of Mechanic Arts are particularly proud of their president, Mr. Dietrich Lange, nationally known naturalist, author, and educator. ln his leisure time Mr. Lange may be found hiking, canoeing, and studying birds, trees, flowers, geology, or physical geography. Hunting he does with a camera. Suddenly his straight, wiry frame stan-ds erect, his deep-set piercing eyes have discovered something. Out comes his camera to record his findings, an unusual bird nest, an out-of-season flower, an odd arrangement of stones, a stately moose looming up silently between fir branches. Mr. Lange's first book, The Hand Book of Nature, was published in l898. To supply the boys of his own school with books which would be profitable as well as interesting reading, Mr. Lange next wrote a series of adventure and ln- dian stories. Before coming to Mechanic Arts, Mr. Lange served as principal of Hum- boldt High School, St. Paul, and as superintendent of the St. Paul schools. Mechanics would be a strange place without the brisk step, the snowy head, and the admonishing hand of its chief executive. lts citizens see him strid- ing up and down the halls, chatting, directing, advising. And many a returning graduate has been heartened to have Mr. Lange greet him by his first name. Truly he practices what he preachesw Be human before you're a teacher! Planting trout in a stream Portage on lsle Royal An unusual nest Page 18