Lincoln High School - Lincoln Log Yearbook (Esko, MN)

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A Reminiscence This year book of the classes of 1938-39 will remind the people of Thomson Township of the educational progress made in this com- munity since 1919 when the children attended school at the Town Hall, the National Lutheran church, and the old rural schools, the Lincoln, McKinley, Monroe, Grant, Washington, and Forbay. Miss Louise Swenson, Mrs. A. L. Winterquist, Mr. Thomas Harney, and Miss Pearl Kuitu were teaching in the district that year, the last of the old rural school days. Four hundred and twelve grade children were enrolled but no high school pupils. In the fall of 1920 twenty- nine high school pupils were enrolled. Of these twenty-nine, one, Miss Hilda Esko, was a senior. She was graduated in the spring of 1921, the Iirst graduating class of the Thomson Township Public Schools. Since then 259 boys and girls have been graduated from our high school. Some of the older graduates remember the slow-moving horse- drawn busses. These pupils will recall how they left home before seven o'clock in the morning and arrived at the Lincoln School some- times as late as ten o'clock, and then left for home about two o'clock in the afternoon. There was no extra-curricular transportation. There were few automobiles. The boys and girls walked home from basket- ball games, parties, and programs. Some of the graduates will recall how we went to basketball games at Cromwell, Barnum, and Moose Lake in the old Model T Ford truck. Sometimes we were sick from carbon monoxide gas, and sometimes we were stuck in the snow drifts. Roads were not snow-plowed. Now twelve modern motor busses bring the pupils to and from school. Motor busses also bring the children home from extra-cur- ricular activities, programs, and parties. The traditional academic high school courses have been enriched with practical courses in home eco- nomics, industrial training, agriculture, and the commercial subjects of shorthand, typewriting, and bookkeeping. Throughout this time, be- ginning in 1920. the extra-curricular activities of 4-H, basketball, band, orchestra, dramatics, and glee club have been offered, but since the school began providing transportation for these activities, they have grown to be much larger factors in the school program and student life than they were when students had to provide their own means of returning home in the evenings. This little book with its pictures and articles should be a happy reminder to us who have had some part in this progress, that we have but done our duty, and that in the words of Longfellow: Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way: But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. SUPT. A. L. WINTERQUIST.

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