Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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T II E 10 3 1 W I Z A It D EDISON HIGH SCHOOL DURING the summer of 1921 workmen were busily engaged in filling up Long John’s Pond to make a firm foundation on which to build Edison High School. Because of the treacherous quicksand bottom. Edison now stands on $50,000 worth of filling. One year later our school opened its doors to greet eighteen hundred students. Since then. Edison has grown immensely. the enrollment has increased to twenty-five hundred students, and the faculty has been increased accordingly. There are now ninety-seven faculty members, of whom twenty-nine, including Mr. Cook and Miss Cole, have been here since the school opened. New subjects have been added to the curriculum from time to time, one of the most recent additions being German. Edison’s athletic teams, under the able direction of Mr. Parkins and Mr. Miller, have won twenty-seven trophies. The swimming teams of ‘27. '28 and ’29. with Lloyd Boyce and Mr. Ray as coaches, won city championships. The basketball teams of '26 and ’28 won Twin City championships. Other championships have been, two in cross-country, one in baseball, and one in golf. Our three publications have made a name for us in that The Wizard, our annual, has been voted the highest possible rating for the past two years, and the Hst two editions of the Gleam have achieved All-American rating. The Record, a bi-weekly newspaper, is also of first rank. GERMAN CLASS Stvtntttn