Cloquet High School - White Pine Yearbook (Cloquet, MN)

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Miraculously, all of the residents of Cloquet, carrying their belongings on their backs, escaped without harm to neighboring towns and safety. Slowly, but with a new determination of spirit, the people drifted hack to the city and began to reconstruct their town and their future. Following the hre, the St. Louis River once again became the mainstay of the community, two of our three major industries are now lo- cated along its banks. The home of the XVhite Pine was again to produce the most unusual wood industries in the nation, as the logging companies of the past gave way to the lumber products of the present. Cloquet's skyline today is dotted with a new type of industry - the plants of the Northwest Paper Company, the YVood Conversion, and the Diamond Match Company. With their total forces combined, the mills in Cloquet presently employ almost 85 per cent of the laboring population in the city. These people and the other citizens who com- prise the community. too. are for the most part ordinary. The author of our school song has gone on to become a successful novelist who visits Cloquet occasionally. The chief of our highway patrol is a former student of our school. Some of our graduates have gone far - pne worked on the hrst atomic bomb and one is currently important in the race for space supremacy. WVe have had our share of doctors, attorneys, teachers, our share of merchants, ministers, and priests. Except for a very few, however, Cloquet has produced no famous men. YVe have had suc- cessful entertainers, but no stars, we have had experienced politicians, but no presidents, we have had good athletes, but no Olympic en- trants, we have had successful men, but no millionaires. Vie may seem average or typical but we are not. The people of Cloquet today are for the most part of Scandinavian and Finnish descent. They defy anyone to type them as typical by the

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This Is Our Town - Cloquet By Beth Moller In the spring of 1960 approximately 170 stu- dents at Cloquet High School were graduated. This, the YN'hite Pine, holds our story, the sen- iors of that graduating class. But because our success. or failure. as seniors was determined not by us alone. but also by our classmates, the juniors, sophomores. and freshmen in our school, this book is also their story: and because we could not be students and classmates without parents and teachers. it is their story: and be- cause there could be no school without a com- munity to support it. the YN'hite Pine is the story of Cloquet, too. Cloquet. Minnesota, is a city of 9,000 people and is considered to be the economic of Carlton County. Today, the population of the city is overflowing both sides of the St. Louis River, with most of the commercial and residential areas on the south side, and our new hospital and Sunnyside located on the riverls northern bank. It is approximately 20 miles west of Duluth and 150 miles north of the metropolitan twin cities area. However. the meager beginning of Knife Falls. as the town was originally called. would not seem to indicate such prosperity. With no idea of permanency. Cloquet was founded in the early 1800's primarily as a All this was destroyed. however. on October 12. 1918 f the date which separates Cloquetis present from its past, Until that time Cloquet had been a busy, prosperous and contented city. 1 7 1 5 , tri ctooufr ly fi y my fa If JUNIOR CHAMBER4 COMMERCE , ,tg 5 camping site for sawmills, since the logs of Wlhite Pine floated conveniently down the Cloquet River through the heart of the settlement. From that time on, no complete history of the Ameri- can lumberjack has been written without men- tion of this town. no tale of Paul liunyon has been told without reference to the part Cfloquet played in the life of his disciples. The lumber in- dustry literally brought the community its fame. But on that night the most terrifying fire this area has ever known swept through the forests of Northern lNIinnesota, damaging towns and settlements obstructing its path and almost com- pletely wiping out the city of Cloquet. 1Vith the exception of a couple of buildings on Dunlap Island, the Garheld School and a few homes scattered throughout its west end, the town suffered total destruction. F

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saunas they take the lutefisk they consume or the co ops where they shop Rellglon plays an lmportant part 1n the llyes of our c1t11ens too In Cloquet at the present tlme there are fourteen churches one m the process of rejux enatlon and one xxlth a newly enlarged addltlon Of the fourteen churches eleyen of them are Protestant and three are Roman Cathohc Ihe largest and most beautlful of these IS the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church located at the top of the Fourth Street hlll The majestlc brllllance of 1ts steeple at dusk when the settlng sun casts a glow upon the exterior of the bulldmg and the solemn beauty of the 1nter1or of the church 1nst1ll an aura of awe and lex erence throughout the commumty ust a few blocks away from the church located on the corner of Cloquet Avenue and Hlghway 33 IS the Ph1ll1ps 66 Serx ICC Statlon, or1g1nated and des1gned by the genlus of Mr Frank Lloyd VVr1ght Followmg th1s archltectural wonder on up Cloquet Axenue the mam street of the Clty one IS confronted wxth the unusual arrangement of our CINIC bl11ldlI'lgS The post office whlch dellvers over 360 000 letters a month, the llbrary whxch c1rculates approxlmately 6000 books a month the CIVIC center holdlng the cxty offxces, the fire hall and the bank are all arranged 1n sequence m thls sectlon of the clty Leav1ng th1s area one enters the bus1ness dxstrxct of the East End Here the merchants dally sell exerythlng from shoes to radlos, cars to msurance, or plumbmg futures to grocerles The story of the bus1ness dlstrlct would not be complete wlthout mentlon of the busmess conducted 1n the West End of town VV1th one exceptlon the busmessmen ln thls area operate the same type of establxshments as those of the East End The exceptlon lS the office of the Pme Knot and News Graphlc the b1 weekly local paper lV1th a present day clrculatlon of close to 3 500 SllbSCI'lpt1OflS for each edltxon the paper has been growmg smce 1883 Its record 15 umblemlshed, the Pme Knot hasn t I'I11SSCd a smgle ISSUC s1nce that year exen durmg the 6 1 'inf Cloquet fire Occupylng space 1n CNCIY ISSUC of the Pme Knot IS some mentlon of CHQ Cloquet H1gh School Its clubs never cease to be act1ve 1ts sports spectacular 1ts students and faculty never fall to do somethlng newsworthy But the school IS more than just clubs or thelr part1c1pants and aclx 1sors It 15 more than just the teachers and the admlmstratlon and lt IS more than the cooks and custodlans who sllently and Wlth llttle pralse keep the school functtonmg smoothly . ,' Y f 1 'ff :X L , L, ni .L ' - 1 ' S l ' ' . J 1 V V - Y -' , . K .. gs, . . . V - Y s x , . . ' fy ' '- ' 4 Y 7 X I- , 6 I . , t ' 'V 1 1 O . V . 7 V L l t 1 A t - 1 1 . , 9 J , 7 K . . . . Y. . . . 7 a - , , . , , . . . . v . . A . . . , , , , , , . - v , I Y . .V . . 'X . . . , 1 t . ., . , X1 i ,, . A h. . . V. r Y . . . . .. , .f . . , .. xx Y. . K . ., . , . s- s s- ' ' . ' 7 ' , . ,. . . . . .