Morton High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Morton, MN)

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formerly in the basement, was built in a ne addi tion of the second floor A large kitchen and sewing room was built with a small dining room off the kit chen The kitchen is equipped with modern elect rical conveniences The manual training room, also formerly in the basement, was built on the first floor It is a large room in the front of the building, containing the latest equipment and electrical devices There was also an addition of two class rooms and the superintendent's office on the first floor, and a class room and science laboratory were built on the second floor Morton Public School was admitted to the state high school list in 1906 In the same year Florence and Ethel Keefe constituted the first graduating class M H Melvin was superintendent at that time Other superintendents were Mr Lymon, Mr Dodge, Ralph Wedge, Well Mosier Clark, A H Trapp, E E T B Miller, L S Graves, who served as super intendent for seventeen years, and Armin L Wegner, the present superintendent Pupils of Morton interest in athletics 1920, 1921, and 1924 district and regional the state tournament and 1944 have lost but The total number school have always shown an especially basketball In the basketball teams won the tournaments and competed in The basketball team of 1945 one game out of twelve of graduates of the school is 454 The largest graduating class, that of 1957, consisted of twenty four graduates In 1954 when all qualifications and standards had been met, the school received a higher class ification from the state department of education and became a class 'B' institution The highest scholastic average ever to be re ceived by any one graduate in the school was earned by Harold Buscho, in the class of 1955, with a mark of 94 1 per cent Second honors go to Lorraine Egerer, who finished school in 1950, with an average o 95 This is a continuation of the article which was published in the Blue and Gold in 1958 Gloege, Charles A. Frantz, R. Haefner, M. Dunlap,

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EDUCATION IN MORTON HIGH SCHOOL The first schoolhouse of District 55 located about where Yrs Bertha Lap1en's residence ls now, was moved from the farm that Ambrose Dallenbach lives on now It is said that the dimensions of the building were 10 feet by 12 feet The land on which the school stood originally belonged to Vogt mans The seating capacity was 24 pupils There were two rows of double seats, with six seats in each row Who the first teacher in Morton was no one knows definitely but the names of Cloe Rhenolds, Hella Aldrich and Viola Price are recalled as teachers in the first school The first school board was composed of the following men George Buery, clerk, Henry Jorges, treasurer, and John Kumro director A new schoolhouse was erected 12 years after District 55 was organized It was a long wooden structure painted white situated on the exact location of the B S Menefee residerce The Fur nishings of the new school consisted of a teachers desk and three rows of seats It was also eouipp ed with a blackboard The school was graced ac cording to the first second and third reader ton slster of B Henton Leroy Stegner later editor of The Morton Enterprise Nellie Brown now Mrs Henry Beckman, and J B Arp The schoolhouse remained there until 1895 when the building in which many Morton people be gan their school life was cut in half Part f it was moved to main street where it is known as the old Witte House now the reslderce of Les Wagner The present schoolhouse located in the north west part of town was built 41 years ago and con slsted of five rooms Only a fem classes in high school were conducted at that time J P Arp was the first principal in the present building New parts have been added from time to time The school population gradually grew so that in '59 a one hundred and twenty thousand dollars rebuilding program was completed giving us several needed class rooms The dome tic science kitchen 7 1 Q 0 ! , . , 0 O . , 1 I 0 o 1 a . Y ! I ' Teachers in charge of the school were: Jessie Hen- - I I ' ' 5 I S , - 1 f . ' , . o 7 , L I , - Y 1 Q C 0 In 7

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BOARD OF EDUCATION NORTON PUBLIC SCHOOL 1945 1944 Charles Buscho James Clancy N M Mahlum R Lenz C H Litchteneger President Clerk Treasurer Director Director R: E: Simon-::::i::::::::::-Director J0 o - '