McMinnville High School - McMinnvillan Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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I SS - -£3St THE NEW COOK SCHOOL Improvement of School District Properties IHJHE MCMINNVILLE school district has acquired several parcels of land during the -W- past three years. Two tracts, comprising nearly ten acres, were purchased from the Baker estate, just north of the junior and senior high school buildings. Mrs. Mary Baker made provision in her will for $3000 to construct an up-to-date athletic field on these grounds. This money will be available July 1, 1930, and it is expected that the improvements will be made during the summer and early fall. The two lots at the corner of Twelfth and Cowls streets, just north of the junior high school building, were purchased from G. A. Heinz, the house having been removed, the corner will be graded, so as to give additional playgrounds for the junior high school. The removal of the house also gives a much better view of the junior high building, and greatly improves the appearance of the grounds. These improvements, with the new gymnasium, and the shrubbery and lawns around both the junior and senior high school buildings will give our high school one of the most beautiful and useful high school campuses in the state. Mrs. W. B. Smith donated the Smith playground block to the school district about a year ago. This block has been graded and seeded to grass. The trees have been cultivated, and dead ones replaced. Additional play equipment will be added to the grounds, as well as other needed improvements made from time to time. This tract, with the half block just east of it, which the school district already owns, will make an excellent site for another elementary grade school, when it is needed, in the northern section of the city. A fine Cook school building has been built and the grounds greatly improved during the past year. The playgrounds are all in the rear of this building. The front is landscaped with beautiful shrubbery and a well made lawn. During the coming summer a fine new school, similar to the Cook building, will replace the old Columbus frame structure, which has stood about 40 years. When this project is completed, and the grounds improved and beautified, McMinnville will have a group of school properties which will be a credit to the city, and in keeping with other enterprises of the community. The school board, consisting of Lee Peters, chairman, Frank Wortman. A. W. Cameron, Mrs. Jennie Warren and Dr. J. C. Tamiesie, which is responsible for these improvements, is to be congratulated upon its progressiveness in school affairs. Page 16 '• -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------,lsv

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feEl - ——— ■' ■■ ■ ■ M r —ts Vinson Allison Northup Bateman ELIZABETH VINSON Willamette U. '27. English. McMinnvillan Advisor GEORGE L. ALLISON r. of (). 27. Athletics. Boys' Physical Education WHITMER MAC DONALD O.S.C. ’25. Science. Mathematics SADIE Bit I CE O.S.C. 23. Shorthand. Typing. Commercial Club Advisor MacDonald Bruce Shows Iter Hamblin ELIZABETH NORTH UP Lin field 16 and '23. Biology. Physiology. Librarian AGNES BATEMAN O.S.C. '29. Home Economics. Sophomore Class Advisor. Home Economics Club Advisor AUDREY SHOWALTER Linfield '19. Latin. Junior High Subjects ETHEL HAMBLIN Linfield '20 and '23. English. History Page 15 5V

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