Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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The Mentor High School Annex, built in 1939 as an elementary school building, contains our freshman homerooms. Throughout the year, regardless of weather, at the sound of the bell the freshman surge out into the elements. They mingle with the upper class-men for such courses as home economics, industrial arts, music, languages, and social sciences. Fellowship is fostered through the participation of all four classes in extra-curricular activities. The bright spacious lobby of our high school provides a place to gather during lunch hours and before school in the morning. It is also the scene of after school meetings and activities. Centrally located, it serves as a pivot point between the new and old sections of the building, between the domains of the upper and lower classes.

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FAMILIAR SIGHTS As Mentor High School students pass through these doors each morning, they embark upon a new adventure into a world of knowledge and selfdevelopment while they build up a store of memories that will return with every opening of the Cardinal Notes. Thirty-eight years ago these doors opened to 103 students in the seventh through twelfth grades. In 1952, there were enrolled 500 in the upper four grades. And today, in 1961, they open to an enrollment of 1200 students. In 1922, one year after the school was in operation, an addition was made to the building which included the present library, the two class rooms over the library, and an indoor track in the gymnasium. The enrollment grew rapidly and in order to accommodate the students, a major addition was made in 1930. The most recent addition, completed in 1958, doubles the capacity and modernizes our school, improving our music, art, and science, and business education facilities. Seven fifty-five A. M.

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The most important part of our high school experiences is, of course, the acquisition of knowledge. Wending our way through term papers, research projects, and book reports, we have become familiar with our library and its contents. After classes have finished for the day, the library abandons its atmosphere of quiet-tude and becomes the scene of meetings and conferences. The problem of what to do after high school is one that always confronts each and every student. Career-planning is a difficult task and one which, unless competent help can be found, is frustrating and seemingly impossible. At Mentor High School, such help obtained from the persons of Miss Florence Davis, dean of girls, and Mr. Wayne Hammond, dean of boys, who make available to us extensive information concerning college and job opportunities in the modern world. 6