Hopkins High School - Warrior Yearbook (Minnetonka, MN)

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1924 The imposing front at the left, the auditorium doors of the junior high school building, came into being in 1924 when the high school across the way became too cramped for all four grades. Gradually, it too, became too small to house the first six elemen-tary grades in addition to the junior high, and with the completion of the Katherine Curren and Alice Smith schools in 1949 and 1952, the building became exclusively junior high except for the special departments. R. J. Mayo was superintendent at the time of its building. Mrs. Sophie Guernsey has been its principal continuously. Katherine Curren School, so named for 44 years of service to the community Architect's drawing of the proposed new senior high school building which the board of District 225 hopes to erect for use by the Fall of 1955.

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Education Milestones in Hopkins 1903 This year marked the graduation of the first high school class in Hopkins. On the class roll are found the names of Fred Souba, Inger Jeppeson, Lillian Lillygren, Emil Miller, Ellen Burns, Joseph Hosp, Agnes Nash, Anna Jenson, Edward Smetana, William Souba. It is interesting to note that one of the graduates, Agnes Nash, later became principal of her Alma Mater. Adolph Olson was superintendent at that time. The building pictured at the right is one of the first schools and stood on the present location of the Legion Hall. The Alice Smith School, opened in the fall of 1952, named for a veteran teacher 1908 This was an important year in Hopkins education history. It marked the erection of the then-modern structure at the right and which we see today on the south side of the Boulevard between 15th and 16th Avenues. Built to serve perhaps 200 students, today it bulges with almost 500; next fall even more. Hopkins graduates have a warm spot in their hearts for it; love its cracks and creaks; will be sorry see it go. Mr. Olson was superintendent in 1908. Milton Geer has been principal of the building since 1937.

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o You Mrs. Nelson! Dedication .... To you, Mrs. Nelson, we of the 1953 Warrior stacf wish to tender a few words of thanks for the many things you have done for us during our stay in the senior high. We say thanks in grateful appreciation for your sincere interest in making our Junior-Senior banquets memorable occasions. Because of your unlimited energy as Junior Class adviser and for the part you played in helping to make the Tri-Y one of the most appreciated clubs in our school, we are truly gratTul. We'll never forget your skillful guidance in helping us to overcome our many stumbling blocks in English grammer. We acknowledge your inspired leadership in showing the way to respectable and honorable citizenship in the great world we are about to enter. In honoring you we also honor ourselves and our school in the dedication of this golden anniversary Warrior yearbook.