Fort Dodge High School - Dodger Yearbook (Fort Dodge, IA)

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Foreword To THE STAFF OF 1912 we are indebted for its pioneer spirit in undertaking the difficult and entirely new task of issuing a school yearbook-the first Dodger. Since then the Dodger has become one of the high-lights in the school life of every student. Distribution day is looked forward to with interest and enthusiasm, the book is a possession to be cherished forever. Twenty-five years have passed since the first Fort Dodge High School annual, and in that quarter of a century, the shifting sands of time have brought changes to both the school and to the annual itself. With the enrollment in- creasing from 258 Cless than the number of graduating seniors this yearj, to 1432, the demand for an enlarged curriculum and for newer and more extensive organiza- tions in place of the few select groups of 1912, has been recognized. New courses, various clubs, musical and dra- matic activities have originated in order that every student in school may find a group interested in the same thing that he is. XVith these innovations, there have also been notice- able revisions of the Docfger. Today every inch of space must be utilized. Old elaborate styles have been abandoned for simplicity and completeness, the goal of our modern yearbooks. Perhaps just as many, if not more changes will occur in the Fort Dodge High School during the next twenty-five years, but it is the sincere hope of the staff of 1936 that the future students may never be deprived of the pleasure found in the publication of their annual, the Dodger. In appreciation of the spirit of the pioneers, with the desire to emulate their initiative and perseverance, we gratafully dedicate this silver anniversary edition to the yearbook of 1912, the first Dodger, and its staff.

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133- IH. Zglakelg Qgtintipal 19135-19151 Behiratinn To Principal W. H. Blakely, the Senior Class of 1912 respectfully dedicate the first volume of THE DODGER E112 1912 'Buhger H936 Edifofs Notcj Two copies of the 1912 Dodger are in the the files of the Dodger office. These are small brown paper-covered volumes of one hundred nineteen pages, seventy-seven devoted to school affairs, the remainder include advertisements of ninety-four local firms and merchants and three Iowa colleges. Interviewed by a Dodger editor, Mr. Granger Mitchell, business manager of the 1912 book, explained that the project was entirely a student affair. Mr. Blakely encouraged and aided the staff, but no page Iwi financial responsibility was assumed by the school. The manager recalls that the venture was a decided success. It was Mr. Blakely, indeed, who suggested the name DODGER which has continued to represent the best in high school life down through the years. John Butler was the editor of the first book. Fortunately for the staff of the 1936 Dodger, the plates of the first annual were preserved for twenty-five years in the attic of his home, and loaned to the editors of this book.