Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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SHEADLINES of the HALE CENTURY FLASH! SWISHI RETURNS! BOOM-A- LACKA! NEWS! K1-Y1! WIRE! CRASH! SWlSH! CON GRATU- LATIONS! Page 12 lune 14, 1898 Dec. 1, 1900 May 5, 1905 Feb. 26, 1907 Nov. 1906 Nov. 22, 1914 lan. 28, 1915 March 3, 1925 April 11, 1933 Oct. 12, 1934 May 8, 1935 Oct. 16, 1935 lan. 19, 1937 lune 18, 1937 All M. A. H. S. attics ransacked! Reason-school stages an auction of castoti pictures. Blue and white cogwheel becomes class symbol. Designer-Hovw ard Elagg. Mourner's Bench-a new creation in school furniture-designed and produced by Mechanic Arts wood shop thrills World's Fair at St. Louis. Handsome brown curtain! M. A. H. S. students cheer. Mechanics students join the third party and support Roosevelt but to no avail-Wilson wins. M. A. H. S. football team wins state championship. Without coach, M. A. H. S. football boys win state championship the second time. Cogwheel makes its debut as school paper- Ooqwheel honored by first Medalist rating- Big Roundup! M. A. H. S. students play Indian in halls. Margaret McIntyre Wins national Latin award. Lightning rips chimney of M. A. H. S. New curtain becomes realityflpred Luft, president ot senior class, makes presentation at school assembly. The Republic of Mechanic Arts completes its iirst fifty years of progress.

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IN FIFTY YEARS At Central High School George Weitbrecht, a kindly chemistry and economics teacher, is approached by a group of men. After an earnest discussion the teacher speaks: Gentlemen, l accept the principalship of the Manual Training School with the provision that academic classes be included in the curriculag and that the school be henceforth known as Mechanic Arts High Schoo1. On the stage of the school auditorium, diplomas are presented to fourteen anxious scholars-the first graduating class. The enrollment increases consistently. The student populace crowd into the assembly hall expressing their sentiments in their first school song: Let's make Mechanics large, boys, It will not hold us all. We used to go to school in it When you and 1 were small. But now were growing large, boys, And we need lots of room, So when we get our nice new school! Construction begins-at the corner of Central and Robert streets. Steam shovels roar, pick-axes grate, and hammers ring. Doors of the new school swing open for the first time-Six hundred eager students take possession of uncarved desks. Grave-faced students file quietly into assembly. The silence is broken only by Mr. Lange's official announcement of the first principa1's death. M-e-c-h-a-n-i-c-s! Fight! Team! Fight! bursts from the new gym. Shouts one senior to another: 1'm thankful for two things: for the new gym. and be- cause we're rid of them pesky freshmen. 2168 high school students of varying creeds, colors, and ambitions pour in and out of familiar halls. Among the crowds bob occasional small figures with round childish faces. The freshmen are with us again. ln fifty years' time we have grown from a mere handful of students in a basement room to the second largest high school in the City of St. Paul, the progressive Republic of Mechanic Arts. Page 11 -1896 -1897 Iune -1909 November -1911 April 41916 February 41929 11937

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QANXERA SHQTS Top panel: Dramatic Mr. Sitzer stars in a white hood, Middle panel: Mechanics' artists appeared thus in IQCU. Lower panel: The career of our present stage director begins Eiiimluly with a paint pail. Page 13