Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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I In Ane, eqmpmerv moves from fWer flood compos. . . . VASTLY DIFFERENT . . . (con'r from pg 3) pleting his her lower level edu corion. Conveniently, Greek School offered oil 12 grades be sides rwo orher levels Despire evidence of conforms. the people or rhis school seem ro hove been rather diverse in rheir backgrounds ond ocriviries Their homes were scortered around the merro-poiron oreo, from Plymouth ro Edina ond everywhere tn be tween Many nortonoSnes. cultures. ond reigions were repre seated or rhe school, including In Aogosr. rhe fireptoce grows m rhe foyer Chinese, Ukrainian, ond MusKm Styles m music ond dothing ranged from o culr coled punk” ro one named” prep-pie”. Besides interests in various academe subjects, such os mot hematics or literature, rhe srudenrs yudied music, drama ond different forms of art The orchoeologiys were surprised upon findmg evidence of so much porricipoiion or rhis primitive level The srudenrs, ond rhe foculry. also participated in many orher ocriviries. This ev dent in rhe number of unidentifiable rooms found in rhe building. They were nor ocodemic classrooms bur rooms for some other purposes Some hod titles Ike Women's tockerroom,” Muyong Staff,” ond Visitors' Men The compound also hod o theater ond mony recreational foci ties There ore signs of tremendous use in these areas, rhe people or Greek must hove used them often This educorionol center was vasrty different from whar historians hod envisioned of the 20th century before rhe exco-varion The 32nd century has much ro learn obour the 20rh This archoeologKa) dig will continue until we con learn no more In Juty. rhe 1981 senior gift of kxxkcoping progresses 4

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Anbenr shovel unearthed or dig room They tentatively identified rhree different levels. In one oreo, o lobyrinrh of inrer-connecring rooms, orchoeolo-gists found nfor motion on rhe whole compound. They confirmed thor ir hod been o moss educational center, or. os lr was quanrly coled in 1982, o school . Unlike rhe traditional (for rhe 32nd cenrury) relecomp edu cononoi system administered n rhe home, these schools were structures built to educate mony people or the some ploce and time People named Focvjiry were employed to reach rhe students, instead of mochines In 1982. Dreck School, os it was colled, educated more than 840 students and employed about 65 Focul 'y The leornng process was much slower in rhe 20rh cenrury A student hod to go through 12 grades before com (con’r pg.4) DIAGRAM OF LAYERS AT DIG 3167 2439 1982 7 Inrergokxric Peoce Treaty signed Telepathic Communcorion perfected Derelgeuse viral plague destroys 20% of population Rebuking of three continents after Neutron Var California crumbles into Pacific Oceon. Clone rebellon queled Greek School moves to Golden Valley Dreck wns Tri-Volley Footbcrt Chompconship Chapel of Holy Spirit construction begun

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of construction vehicle from o seconds.'ory window Before Qreck moved in. some son of colored subsronce was oppled ro rhe wots of the interior Example of rhe fonrosncoly prmrive home combers of the 1982 ero UNIQUE FACILITIES The achoeotogisrs or rhe ex cavorion, by using o sophisricor ed daring process simSar ro rhe Carbon 14 method, hove determined rhor rhe compound hod only been occupied for obour o year by 1982 It hod been moved from o smaller compound known os rhe River Rood campus or rhe old compus. As rhe excavation continues, more and more of Breck is discovered The fooVries were quire etoborore. both rhe build mgs and grounds, for o private school ( Privore” refers ro rhe method of financing rhe school.) The buking was copoble of hoking more students rhan ir d J. To occomodore speed needs, there were three gym nosiums. two lunchrooms, and several lockerooms. Aquanc athletes compered in rhe 25 merer pool. A greor yooe fire ploce warned rhe enrronce foyer on frosry mornings. Courryads and o 400 sear rhe orer completed rhe unique factory. Like the building, the grounds outside were dso much lager than rhose of rhe okj campus Several recrea rionol fields surrounded rhe buking and three tennis courts and a skating rmk were located ro one side. The immediate aeas our side the budding were coled parking tors ' Historians hypothesize rhor rhese were used ro hold transport vehicles, since oerocars hod not yer been introduced. At rhe center of rhe com pound be rhe ruins of on unfinished buddmg Breck hod stated ro consrrucT something colled a chapel'' in 1981. There 6 conclusive evidence indicating rhor rhis chapel, named The Chapel of rhe Holy Spinr, was to have been used as o place ro worship fa the school. 5 Worker reassembles rhe Reece Ploy Center