East High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The 1909 Cardinal was still larger than the 1908. It was the first to contain large class pictures and personals. Altho the severe type in this volume is rather monotonous and the material very frivolous, it has many excellent cuts and engravings, and makes a good memento of the senior class of 1909. Mr. Cady, now one of our instructors, was editor of the 1910 Cardinal. Cream tinted paper and brown ink were used in this book; this rendered it very artistic in combination with the dark brown linen cover, but the quality of the engravings suffered thereby. The 1910 class was the first to use paid advertisements as a means of covering part of its expenses. The 1911 and 1912 Cardinals were both very good, altho somewhat smaller in size than their predecessors. These both had board covers the same as those of the former annuals, with the exception of the 1910 Cardinal. The 1913 annual is interesting because of its joint dedication to Miss Shillock anti Miss Jeter. Its makeup was excellent, having a uniform border for all of the pages. The 1913 Cardinal board changed the policy of the Cardinal; it was no longer an all-senior book, but everybody’s Cardinal. The 1914 Cardinal was very small, and most readers thought it very poor, altho it hail some excellent features. We all remember the 1915 Cardinal because of its radical change in form. The other Cardinals were all of the regular folio shape, but the 1915 board adopted the oblong form, opening from the shorter side. The cover was dark brown with gold design. The paper was cream with brown ink; consequently the engravings were of a poorer quality. There is no doubt of the excellence of the 1915 Cardinal; it was well-proportioned and interesting to all. You now have before you the 1916 Cardinal. We have studied the labors of the former classes in an effort to profit by their experiences and mistakes. We have endeavored to give to the school the best Cardinal yet. We ask you to consider our work in the compiling of this volume, and to have sympathy with our difficulties, and be not too harsh in judging the Cardinal of 1916. Ruth Wagoner. I 10)

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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CARDINAL TI IK first Cardinal to be published at East High was published in 1907 by the junior class of 1908; it was called “The 1908 Cardinal from the name of the class. As the juniors wished their publication to become a permanent institution, they tried to choose a name for their book which would have a lasting fitness and appeal. Many disapproved of the name, “Cardinal”, thinking that it referred to an officer of the church instead of to our school color. For this reason, the covers of the first two cardinals were red, and many of the succeeding ones have followed this precedent, in part, at least. The 1912 annual hail cardinal birds on the cover; the 1909 class used the bird for their frontispiece, and the 1908 class had the churchman in a cardinal robe for a title-page. The prices of these annuals have varied. The first three annuals were sold for fifty cents each; the 1909 Cardinal was a dollar, because of the extra cost of the linen cover. The 1915 Cardinal Board raised the price, which for the three preceding years had been fifty cents, to seventy-five cents. This advance was due partly to the raise in the cost of publication, and partly to the fact that the preceding Cardinals had gone into debt. The 1915 annual was the first for several years to cover expenses. For a similar reason the 1916 Cardinal Board has decided to charge the same price. We hope to make up for the advance in cost by the excellence of our publication. The 1907 class deserves much credit for instituting the custom of a High School Annual at East. So far as we know, East was the first local high school to have a publication of this kind, altho we do not state this claim positively. Earle Baillie was the editor of this first annual, and Edwin Brown, the business manager. There were but five associate editors, and no assistant editor or business manager. The annual was small, containing only ninety-three pages. It had no advertisements. Its pages boasted less than twenty engravings, and only one drawing; the editorial board was represented by baby pictures. The champion foot ball team of 1906, and the school organizations and athletics were the only pictures, save three in an illustrated article and two of Mr. Webster. The literary material was composed of class and organization write-ups, personals, and the cream of the literary efforts of the upper class men. The second “1908 Cardinal” was put out by the June class of 1908. Earle Baillie was again editor. Both of these Cardinals were dedicated to Mr. Webster. The second annual was almost half again as large as the first. It contained more engravings and drawings. There were small pictures of the whole senior class engraved on the inside of the cover, without names or personals. The Old-English titles and small inserts of the same type, such as “ Blessed are those who work—their teachers, at the bottom of the page, made this volume very attractive. ( 15]

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