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

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PAGE FOUR Gen oral Xe rs 5IINXEA] Nimble Fingers and Ready Wits Plus Jw Constructing scenery—-left to right, Harold llolmherg. W. K. Ifnrmtrert, .loe Slrany, Vernon Derby and Conrad Andrew. Sewing the muslin—left to right. Ruth Peterson. Agnea Oinaa-ter and Marion Knudson. Pupils Re-enact Historic Scenes .rot'Ttx t; ‘•SPIRIT OF ’76 MARCHES AGAIN Pupils of Folwcll Junior high school depicted historic scenes in s patriotic program recently. The boys portraying The Spirit of 76‘ are George Olsen. Ray Love, Robert Peterson. Arnold Olson and Arnold Erickson. Girls nt the right, who arc re-enacting the making of the first American flag, are Geraldine Voss. Judith Gunderson, I oIs Llndour. Katherine Lang, Florence Johnson. Gladys Swanson. Norma Fisher. Ercyl Kemp and Charlotte Swanson. 20

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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

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)LTS JOURNAL Sunday, Mar 7, 1933. k Pile—Give School Fully Equipped Stage sprny-giin—loft to right, Harold Holmbcrg, Jo® Slrany and O. K. Olson. Dumps Play Fairy Godmother to Junior High ■•.“.Un, th, „,„rrr„htj Oordon horn. Douid Folwell Students Dig Up Discards and Build VMlhur Johnson and Morrill Pearson. Model Stage Therefrom Dumps and junk piles around Thirty-sixth street and Twentieth avenue S. are almost bereft of old bed springs, tin cans auto parts and what not. Folwell junior high school has a new lake scene backdrop for its stage and four new woodland wings. Those two facts are very closely' related. Folwell, being a very new school, had little or no equipment to aid musical or dramatic presentations on Its stage. The board of education. being short of funds, could do little about It. There's where the Junk piles came in. They Get on the Job Students in the industrial department of the school were determined the stage would no longer be lifeless for school presentations. Scenery was necessary, and to make the scenery, certain equipment had to be made. They began making Informal calls on the nearby dumps. In one. they found an old cream separator. They took lta motor. In another, they located an old air pump on an ancient automobile. They took that, too. Another antique vehicle gave up a gas light tnnk. An old bed spring was brought Into use. Some More Resourcefulness By sawing out the middle of the gas' tank and soldering the two ends together, attaching the air pump and the cream separator motor. 8 fairly good paint spray gun was made. Long strips of muslin were purchased. borrowed and found. Boards. some new and some old. were brought into use. Merchants who sold linoleum were called upon and the long cardboard tubing from rolls of the floor covering were donated. The tubes were split and folded one upon the other until a long roll of eight thicknesses was made. And Girls Do Their Kit The muslin was sewed together by the girls In their sewing classes. It was tacked to the roll and to a top ridge-pole. The boards were nailed into wing frames and the muslin was posted to them. The spray gun and paint brushes came into play—and there stood a brand new lake and woodland scene to add atmosphere to all Folwell stage doings.” All of the work was done by the sewing and industrial classes under the supervision of O. E. Olson and W. E. Hamstreet, industrial instructors. 21