Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The 1932 Wizard iminiMiiinniiisiiiiai.itaiiir: iiiiiiiimiiiiiiinniiiiwiimiiiiiwiiimimmiirtiiiiwiiiwimiMiiiwiiiiMiiuiiiuiiiimiiiMiiiMiiiuiiiMiiimiimiiimiiiMimmiwniii MR. LOMBARD MRS. MClNTYRB MISS MCMILLAN MR. MHRRIEIELD MR. MILLER MRS. NORDBY MISS PETERSON MR PILE MISS P1NN0Y MR RAY In its opening year Edison received eighteen hundred students who had formerly attended East High and the neighboring grade schools. Since only the 7B through 1 1A grades were included, there was no graduating class the first year. The Senior Student Council was organized in this year. It made possible a finer cooperation between students and faculty and sponsored a series of entertainments for the entire school. In the following year Edison’s first graduating class was organized. It consisted of forty-six members with Mr. Benner acting as the adviser. Room 202 was made the headquarters of the year book. A new name, the Wizard, was selected. Under the direction of Mrs. Gillies the annual was constructed, and Edison was started on a literary career. In the year of 1924-25 Edison showed an ambition for organizing. Several organizations which were begun then but no longer exist are the Q. E. D. Club, the Wing and Bow Club, and the Commercial Club. However, three of our most serviceable clubs today were organized then: namely, the National Honor Society, the Dramatic Club, and the Band. A definite magazine class also was organized to take complete charge of the Gleam. I 23 J MISS SEYMOUR MISS TURNER MISS WENTZ MRS WHITE

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The 1932 Wizard MlSSBEEDLE MR BENNER MISS BER MISS BRADEN MRS. BUCKLE MissCkallman Mr. Curran miss Donovan miss duns missf.rb THROUGH THE YEARS THE first year of Edison’s history was very different from that of any later years. Classes were more or less distributed by the din of hammering and riveting as the seats in the auditorium were being riveted and lockers had to be installed. Three hundred eighteen was a room almost twice as long as it is now since there was no partition between the present two Rooms 318 and 315. The seats were in single rows, and the study hall teachers could hardly make themselves heard by the people in the back of the room. The English Department was then under the direction of Miss Hayes. During the semester an assembly was given by this department with the idea of “selling English to the students. Miss Hayes. Miss Ber, and Miss Challman were contributors to the program. The first Record appeared that year. It was a four-page paper but was considerably smaller than the present Record. Miss Seaman was then the adviser, and the Record office was on the first floor in Room 127. The first annual, the Nor'Easter. was scarcely more than a pamphlet and contained only twenty-eight pages. It was supervised by Miss Seaman and Mr. Benner. [ 22 MR ERICKSON MRS GILLIES MISS HARROUN MISS JOHNSON

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The 19 3 2 Wizard MISS BALLOU MISS HOLKESVIG MR JANES MISS SEAMAN To compete with the boys' Q. E. D. a girls' debating club was organized the following year under the name of W. H. B. In keeping with the fact that the school annual is named for the Wizard’’ of all sciences. Thomas Alva Edison, the seniors of the year 1927 dedicated their Wizard to Mr. Edison. It contained a synopsis of his life and inventions together with several pictures of him. Most cherished of all in the annual is a letter from Mr. Edison with a facsimile of his own signature. In the following school year every room in Edison High was given a framed picture of Mr. Edison. Under each picture there is a quotation which bears on the subject taught in that room. These pictures are a constant reminder of the ideals of the great man for whom our school is named. nln the late spring of 1930 plans for an Edison athletic field were being made: and during the summer these plans were materializing. When the fall term opened, the students were greeted with a field that showed prospects of becoming all that a loyal Edisonian could desire. Many of the students gave their locker refund for a fence which is to be built about the playing field. mi;s Dodge MISS ROBERTSON MR AHLSTROM MISS BURKE MISS HICKOK MISS CASE Mr. parkins I 24 ] MISS DOOR MR. SODHKGREN MR. HENDRICKS MISS TUPPFR