Lincoln High School - Totem Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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PAGE SIX KARL F . ADAMS

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DEDICATION To that oldest and truest of Lincoln traditionsg to that spirit which is the foundation of everything Lincolng to '6Lin- coln Spiritf' which has ever characterized this school, that it may be perpetuated by all future Lincolnites as it has in the past, this hook is earnestly dedicated.

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The School A few facts about the school We loveg some of its achievements, a. little about its growth, and an inkling of its history. ' This yeaifs graduating class is over eight times as large as the class of forty members 'that took part in the first commencement ex- ercises at Lincoln in l909. The first class to leave this school graduated in l908, but com- bined their exercises with Broadway. School was opened at Lincoln, for the first time, in October of that year by a contingent of teachers and pupils sent out from the Broad- way High School The present enrollment, which is some twenty-one hundred, has almost doubled as compared with the first year's list of about eleven hundred students. Such an increase in attendance has been followed by other and equally im- portant changes. ln l9I4, an annex containing the two gymnasiums and the assembly hall was built in order that the former gymnasium and study room might be converted into class rooms. By that change, all the wing of the building between the two stairways was used for class rooms. Five years later five portables were constructed to accommodate Lincoln's two thousand students. The faculty has increased proportionally. ln 1908 it numbered forty-one members, in fifteen years it has increased to eighty-five. One of the reasons for the remarkable growth of this institution may be found in the various organizations that have been formed among Lincoln students. Possibly the most important of these have been the boys' and girls' clubs. The boys' organization was formed with the assistance of the Y. M. C. A. having hikes, dinners, and similar wholesome diversions. The Lincoln Athletic Asso- ciation managed Lincoln's athletics for over ten years, but since the work of each of these overlapped, this last year they were united under the Boys' Association. The Girls' Athletic Association, formed in l908, was the first of the girls' organizations, although a year later the Girls' Club was formed. These two, since joined, have been very helpful in promoting Lincoln Spirit among the girls. ln l9I 2 a May fete was put on by them that scored a great success. Since then, besides their interest and participation in athletics, they have greatly assisted in the Lincolonials. From her beginning, Lincoln has been very successful in all her interscholas- tic sports. Broadway, her strongest rival, has defeated her only three times in football. ln the state league, Lincoln would have captured the championship in l9l2, had it not been for the defeat of fourteen to three inflicted by Everett. For the next few years our chances were foiled by either Broadway or Queen Anne, until in l9l 7 Lincoln surprised all by making a no-defeat record. Lin- coln turned the same trick the next two years and in the latter, a score of twenty- two to nothing was run up against Broadway. PAG E S IC V ICB