Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 T II E 19 3 1 W IZARD Louis G. Cook Principal A HIGHWAY is directional. It starts where people live, and it goe where people work and die. It typifies life. Like life, it is marked by obstacles (hedges, ditches, fences) between the road and (he adjacent fields, obstacles not to be overcome but to be accepted as limitations. If acknowledged as such, it is easy to see that these obstacles are the restraining influences that keep us in the highroad. School and home both help keep us on the road. They stand each side of the highroad and keep us going forward, sometimes in spite of ourselves. This book records the progress of many of us during the last four years. Some have been lost in the swamps and stony fields beside the highway of life: but many who have recognized the need of direction have joyfully stayed on the road, and their faces and names are recorded here as part of that vast army of life. I believe we are all moving forward on the great highway toward a millennium of greater tolerance, greater knowledge, more peace and happiness, less superstition and sin. It is not given us to know the end of the journey, but it is our responsibility to be leaders an! help make the going worth while.

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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

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T II K l l) 3 l W IZARD Ruth Fitch Cole Assiitant Principal 'T 'HE highway stretches before us toward the land of our dreams. Under the warm sunshine it leads through glorious scenery to the wonders of the unknown Far-away. Little do we realize that there are many rough places along the way: cold storms and intense heat, steep hills and narrow roads, unexpected sharp turns which lead to great sorrows. You are all on the highway of life. How splendid that to you it is bright with promise. How you thrill with the hope of the great Unknown! May you have strength and courage and wisdom to carry you on your way over the rugged places to the full realization of your hopes. Ninttttn