Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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 19 8 1 WIZARD ARTA KOCKEN ROBERT STEWART ERMA TODD Councilor Engineer Viiilmf T either DEVELOPMENTS IN 1931 DURING ihc hot summer days of June. July, and August, the painters took over the building. and with swift and dexterous strokes of cream and white paint, prepared to make it look like new. White the students vacationed, read, camped, and studied, one hundred men worked steadily to complete the $80,000 job by September 2. What a welcome surprise the homeward wenders received when they entered the building, shiny with its new coat of paint! The ordeal of returning to school was a much less difficult task with the glorious resplendence of the freshly-coated walls brightening our days. With the opening of the new school year, there were added to the faculty several new teachers. They were: Mr. Ole Anderson, who teaches the newly-introduced subject, auto mechanics; Mr. T. V. Cunningham, instructor in mechanical drawing: Miss Mary McGregor, teacher of junior high art; Mrs. I.otta Hegnauer. instructor in domestic science; Miss Jean Toohey. senior high art teacher. Mrs. Lucille Simmons became a regular teacher in the commercial department, where she had formerly substituted for Miss York. February came, and with it the new semester and new teachers. Those who then became faculty members were: the Misses Florence Fisch and Sophie Albinson. English teachers: Mrs. Florence Keeler, instructor in domestic science; Mrs. Vera Lawson, seventh and eighth grade chorus teacher: and Mr. Ralph Wiley, assistant in boys' gymnasium work. MISS MELLEM MISS FISCH MRS LAWSON MISS ALBINSON T wmly