Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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DEDICATION: Jo Our Highly Esteemed Instructor, hose kind help and untiring efforts have done much toward securing for the Denton High School a position in the foremost rank of the High Schools in Texas—to Principal Wallace Newton Masters. IS. S.. A. B.. this volume of the Bronco is affectionately dedicated.

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WALLACE NEWTON MASTERS About the first thing decided upon by the editorial start’ this year was that the Bronco should he dedicated to Prof. Masters. He has always been so kind and willing to help us in the Bronco work that we feel it to he hut a small return to dedicate this volume to him. W allace Newton Masters was born in Marshal County. Northern Alabama. He went to school there in a little log house on the side of a mountain. No doubt he was as our literature book says, a remarkably precocious lad. When he was about twelve years of age he moved to Cooksville, Texas. He began teaching school at the early age of seventeen. After teaching for one year he went to Lebanon. (diio. and entered the National Normal Cniversitv. He spent two years there. There was an excellent laboratory at this university, so it is needless to sav he enjoyed his school work. After teaching five more years, he spent another year at the university. He then taught two years in Eastern Texas before coming to Denton County. In 1»« he came to Denton to accept a position as principal of the Denton High School, which position he holds at the present time, l or several years he had charge of the tenth ami eleventh grades, and when the department system was introduced, he was chosen to fill the chair of Science and Latin. Mr. Masters is a man of scholarly attainments He s proficient in all branches of learning, but especially so in physics and 1-atin, of which subjects he is very fond. lie is an amateur poet of some merit. It is even rumored that he once burned the students midnight oil while writing poetry to his youthful loves. Mr. Masters has done much toward upbuilding the Denton High School. One of his best achievements in this line is the laboratory. Jt was owing to him that the first appropriation was made for a laboratory. Although this was small, it has been increased yearly until now the Denton High School has a laboratory which, although at first sight it does not look very promising on account of its location, nevertheless contains good apparatus I hree years ago when it was decided to have a Bronco, Mr. Masters was one of the most enthusiastic promoters. He has always been willing to aid us in any way he could, so it is in loving gratitude that wt dedicate this, the third volume of the Bronco t him.