Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Myka Ward Arta E. Kocken E. Marie Barnard Library School Counselor Lunchroom EDISON HIGH SCHOOL W. F. Wkbsteb - -- -- -- - Superintendent L. M. McWiiortkr ------- Asst. Superintendent Ix)ui8 G. Cook - -- -- -- - Principal Kutii F. Cole - -- - - - - - Assistant Principal EDISON High School began its career as a Junior-Senior High School in 1922 when the old East High School district was divided into North-East and South-East. and the Edison High School building was erected at Twenty-Second Avenue and Monroe Street North-East. The present building is a three-story structure occupying two city blocks. The present enrollment has grown to two thousand one hundred and sixty-two, with eighty members on the regular teaching stall'. In addition to the twelve departments of instruction, there are various administrative departments with specialized functions. The office force includes Inez Mahoney, chief clerk; Mrs. Crystal Lewis, secretary to the principal; Myrtle Moline, attendance clerk, and Mary Teslie. The school counselor is the chairman of the guidance activities of the school, with particular emphasis on vocational and educational advice ami information. Through the counselor's co-operation with the administration officers, teachers, and interested citizens, data regarding educational and vocational opportunities is made more available to the students. Through the same co-operation, data regarding the student's aptitudes, and abilities is discovered and studied so that it may be capitalized for a more efficient school life and a happier occupational adjustment. All students having some special problem within or outside of the school go to Miss Erma Todd, the visiting teacher. After investigating the case thoroughly and Eighteen

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 THE CONTRIBUTION OF YOUTH TN nature the clear fresh spring pours its cool waters -L into tlie turbid stream and clarifies it, adding the oxygen filled liquid which is so necessary for promoting life. So youth freshens and renews the stream of life purging and purifying it, thus supplying the real elements by which society lives. Youth adds the real zip to life, the audacity of reckless courage, the vigor of physical perfection, the originality which comes from not knowing too much, and above all, that militant faith in those essential verities that make life worth living. —Louis G. Cook. Seventeen

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 Cohrink F. McMillan Robert S. Stewart Jean Robertson Nurse Janitor-Engineer Sight Saving finding the causes of the difficulty, she tries to find a remedy. Three-fourths of her eases come from students who come voluntarily to her. She works with various social agencies, settlement houses, and churches in promoting social welfare at school and at home. In the absence of the regular librarian, the school library this year is in charge of Miss Myra Ward, a substitute teacher. Under her supervision, with her assistant. Mrs. Bernice Machande, and ten student helpers, five hundred to seven hundred books circulate daily. The library at present shelves some six thousand volumes, fifty magazines, and six sets of encyclopedias, and scats one hundred-twenty students. Discipline in the library is maintained almost entirely by student supervision. The modcrnly equipped lunchroom on the ground floor has seating capacity for five hundred sixty-five students, and exclusive of light and gas, is self-maintaining. Miss Marie Barnard has entire charge of the lunchroom. She supervises a force of seven women, one man. and seventeen student assistants, and furnishes food to patrons at actual cost. Through the Department of Hygiene of the Minneapolis Public Schools, this high school enjoys the services of a school nurse, who renders first aid in cases of emergency, and examines and reports cases concerned with health. She examines cases of suspected illness, and suspends from school students who have contagious diseases. The nurse also detects all cases in which physical or mental defects retard school work, and reports them to parents who may avail themselves of such medical services as the case requires. The school physician, Dr. Margaret I,. Nickerson, visits the school at regular intervals. One of the two Sight Saving classes in the city is at Edison High School. 'Phis class offers an opportunity for students with defective vision to go through high school taking their regular work in the regular classes. Under the supervision of Jean Robertson, student readers are employed to aid her in reading the lessons to these students. The sight saving work of the city is supervised by Mr. George Meyers. Nineteen