Washburn High School - Wahian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The Washburn Senior-Junior High School THERE arc a few features of Washburn which arc quite unique. The first one is that our school is situated on a site which covers five acres. There are few other high schools which have so generous a space. In the center of this stands our fine school—one to be honored and appreciated, for we have a great deal to be proud of. The building is constructed in the shape of a T. the greatest length being 380 feet. This plan is much more economical than that of the ' hollow square. Much time is saved for pupils and teachers: the auditorium is made less expensive, for there arc no side-courts, and no big windows and window curtains arc required. The Bureau of Buildings planned our school. This department, since it is a permanent factor of the Board of Education, can plan better and more reasonably built schools. The taxpayer secs his ideal school realized in one like Washburn, for it combines durability and completeness with a pleasing exterior and interior. One needs only to glance at the front of our building to see the wonderful lighting we have. That broad east expanse. practically all windows, is a sight worth seeing. A trip through the school accompanied by a guide will show all the features of Washburn to those who would like to sec where a part of their taxes goes. Our

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FOREWORD THIS LITTLE SOUVENIR PROGRAM PAMPHLET IS AN ATTEMPT TO RECORD SOME OF THE INCIDENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT MARK THE OPENING OF THE WASHBURN SENIOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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windowlcss. well-aired auditorium is the most important feature; it seats 1.500 pupils. Our gymnasiums are so situated that people using them in the evening will not need to walk out of their way in getting in or out. because entrances at either end of that floor make this unnecessary. We also have a wastepaper chute which saves the janitors a great deal of walking. The shops consist of electricity, sheet metal, woodworking. and two mechanical drawing rooms: these are on the ground floor. There are thirty-six recitation rooms, the auditorium, library, two mechanical drawing rooms, an electricity room, one for sheet metal, wood-working, printing, applied art. free-hand drawing. a conservatory, a botany laboratory, an elementary science laboratory, elementary science lecture room, a room for bookkeeping, typewriting, banking, two study halls, a room for chorus, music, one for book sales, one junior high book room, a nurse's room, news room. ticket room, three teachers' rest rooms, nineteen for storage. and five offices. Washburn is a senior-junior high now. or with the 6-6 division. The reason this plan is used is to relieve congested conditions in a section of the city where the school population is not large enough to justify the building of a junior and a senior high school. The Board of Education plans ultimately to make Washburn a senior high only. Then the Board hopes to purchase the Washburn Home grounds and build a junior high there. This plan will be realized as soon as Washburn district grows enough; conservative estimators believe that in five years it will be necessary to build a junior high. Washburn will represent when wholly equipped nearly a million dollar investment. If it trains strong bodies, fine minds, and youths whose ideals are honor, loyalty, service, the investment will be more than justified. Honor Self-restraint, self-mastery, common sense, the power of accepting individual responsibility and yet of acting in conjunction with others, courage and resolution—these are the qualities which mark a masterful people. —Theodore Roosevelt.