Folwell Junior High School - Folwell Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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« -TJ t . - Folwell Junior HU New School Houses 720 Junior Pupils Fourteen Former Roosevelt Teachers Are Among Faculty Seven hundred and twenty-one pupils have enrolled at the new Folwell Junior high school which is one of the latest additions to the Minneapolis public school system. The pupils are devided into twenty advisory groups. There are eight 7B groups, six 7A groups, and six 8B groups. Twenty-five teachers are members of the faculty. Fourteen are former Roosevelt instructors. They are Miss Rose Hatz. sewing and geopraphy: Miss Gladys Jacobson, cooking; Miss Virginia Reid, mathematics: Miss E. B. Thornton, art: Miss Marie Thomas. English; Mrs. Esther Foster, mathematics; W. E. Hamstreet, geography and sheet metal; Mrs. Frances Knee-land. geography and history; Mrs. Mildred Jensen, English; Miss Ella Koefoed, English; Mrs. Jennie Walton. mathematics; Miss Sadie Ingram. English; and Miss Mable Tomlinson. English. Miss Irma Smith, former Roosevelt nurse, has been assigned as nurse a Folwell. Bertha Ferguson. Roosevelt visiting teachefr is holding that position at the new school. Hollis Baird, also of Roosevelt, has been appointed to the new school but she has not re-twrtoH y»t The rest of the faculty consists oi three former Franklin teachers, one from Philips, and one from Bryant. One teacher is a former principal, and three instructors are from out of town. The gym teachers are former elementary school instructors. A three story structure, Folwell has fifteen general class rooms seating forty pupils each, two sewing rooms, two art rooms, a library, a science room, five boys' industrial rooms, an auditorium and two gymnasiums. Folwell has also a Community room which is open for use to any worthwhile organization in the district. • The opening of the Minneapolis public schools Tuesday, Sept Twentieth avenue south and Thirty-sixth street. It will be a been built. The building, as now constructed, cost about 9590,0 total cost to 9690,000.

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to Open September 8 ■ ■■■■ ■■ ■ , — i 8, will place in use the new Folwell junior high school, located a ard junior high school, except that only one of the two wings ha hile erection of the additional wing at a later date will bring th William Watts FolweU Minnesota’s Grand Old Man Bom 1833 Died 1929 Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel in tho Civil War. First President of the University of Minnesota. Noted historian and educator. President ot the University of Minnesota 1869 to 1884. Professor of Political Science 1884 to 1907. President of the Minnesota Historical Society. President ol the Minneapolis Society of Fine ArfS. Author of “The History of Minnesota, in four volume . Member of Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners. Acting President American Economic Association. Preaident Emeritus of the University of Minnesota. 500 Teddies Admitted To Folwell High Junior High Attendance Here Falls to Lowest in City Roosevelt Will Be All-Senior High School in Year And Half By removing the 7B. 7A. and 8B students from the Roosevelt high school to Folwell Junior high, Roosevelt takes a great stride toward becoming a Senior high. The Junior high attendance fell to the lowest of any of the combined senior and junior high schools of Minneapolis. Roosevelt will be an all-senior high in a year and a half. The total number of junior high students is five hundred forty-two. This includes 8A. 9B. and 9A pupils. Last year Roosevelt hod all Junior high and all senior high with a total junior high attendance of 1,137. Thus a decrease of five hundred seventy-five Is shown. Roosevelt was the only school affected by the opening of Folwell Junior high. The largest attendance In the combined Junior and senior high schools this yenr is recorded at Edison with 2,589 displacing Roosevelt which led last year. The smallest attendance is at Marshall with 1.542. For the last two years North has had the largest number of students enrolled in the all-senior high schools with an increase of ninety-one students in this year's enrollment. The total number of pupils now attending is 2.908. Central has had the smallest attendance of the all-senior high schools for two successive years with an enrollment this year of 2,087. The total number of senior high students enrolled in all senior and junior and senior highs is 14.409; the junior high total is 3.867. The total number enrolled in each school are North. 2,908: South. 2.438; West. 2.130: Central. 2.087; Edison, 2,589; Washburn, 2,423: Roosevelt. 2.159: Marshall, 1,542. 19