Minot High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Minot, ND)

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CEO fgi- tliyioneevfli After me conzezffz mzotlzcr. Te!! lzim, I 1500 have known. In these words Kipling strikes the note of the Pioneer, in that wonderful poem The Builder. The Seniors of 1927 have done well to make the Pioneer the theme and the pervading thought of this eighteenth volume of the Searchlight. Records show that Minot High School is in the twenty-seventh year of its existence. In 1900 the high school department of the city schools was organized, with an enroll- ment of twenty-six pupils. There has been a steady growth within these years as in- dicated by the five-year interval record below: 1900 .... --- 26 1905 .... --- 93 1910 .... .... 1 5-1 1915 ,... 1.-. 2 28 1920 ..., .... 4 28 1925 ,.......-....,.. 714 1927 ......,.1......1 830 There are many in our city today who were instrumental in bringing about a high school for Minot. To these, and to those who have followed them whether as citizens, members of the Boards of Education, teachers, parents, or pupils, of other days, Minot High School of today tenders a note of grateful recognition and appre- ciation. These were the pioneers upon whose faith and works rests today's high school with its splendid enrollment of pupils placing it second in the state. Two teachers were caring for the high school classes when the first graduating exercises were held in 1904 and six young people completed the four year course. Thirty- three faculty members constitute the staff at Minot High today, while one hundred and fifty-three present seniors are prospective graduates at the commencement of June third. VVhose faith in 1900 could have been sufficiently strong to foresee a high school fast approaching the thousand mark within this comparatively short period? Even in 1919 when the present building was completed, the enrollment was about one-half of what it is today. When one considers that high school attendance is voluntary and since attendance involves a sacrifice on the part of parents, it may be assumed that a large attendance indicates that parents and patrons are convinced that a high school education offers distinct advantages. Those who form the present student body in the high school are not unmindful of these advantages. Today's organization is a product of all the factors that have gone before. To those who opened up the high school, to those whose foresight gave us an excellent new building in 1919, to all who have assisted-those Pioneers-Minot High School acknowledges a grateful appreciation through this Senior Annual. J. H. Colton, Principal.

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H. E. BYORUM ALBERT LOWE L. H. PIPER - M. RINGEN L S. J. LA DUE JULIA SWEITZEII J. C. LIIND - L. A. WHITE oavg of 625ucc1fionf3 - Presiflcnf Vice Prcsirlvnf E M um Ibm' - Memlwr - Mwn II 01' - Tl'0IlSIlTl'I' - Clvrlf a3l11il1iSfP0fiX7L.L Qfficevi L. A. WHITE L SlIjIl'l'i1I1L61lllCHf of Schools J. H. COLTON - L Przhcipal of High, School AIIDREY ZITUR - E - - Sf6lLUg'I'fl1Jh6l THELMA SWANSON - Stenogmpher

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. M ARGARE 1' AURLAND U. of Wisconsin, B. A. English. fidllflllI'Pd Granzmar H. W. M. EAsTvoLD St. Olaf College, B. A f'l1r'n1isfrg1. F. L. BOUDA Stout Institute, B. S. I-ncZust'ria,Z Arts .1 , ff .WW W of fp X Q9 W , W, I ,fc ' A . ,H . .V 1.J. 1, , W 'I ,ffl If 4 44 ,f X 0 Z A .1 A7 AW 1 4' , ff X , '01 M97 zz ' f W . JM., XM , , Wiwlzii fi, J. , if l il'i , , ZITA C. FRIEDL U. of Minnesota, B. S. Home Ecmzomics. Arts. MABEL JANE ADAMS Carleton College, A. B, History and Economics. MARIE FAGSTAD University of N. D., B. A English.