North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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t h e 'H BROM atics ETHELYN BURNETT Cal Edu, ;us-C1VE cLe r?bert Cc At 6ZiLlCE C O . 4

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Albert M. Bank Principal Half a century ago, in April 1888, Mr. J. N. Greer was employed by the Board of Education of this city to take charge of the organization of a new high school on the North Side, and the contract for the erection of a building wars let. In January the building was opened with only thirty-five pupils enrolled in the high school department. In addition there were included in the school about seven hundred children in the first eight grades. Mr. Greer in later years had this tc say about the school: The teachers and the children were all any principal could ask. He attributed the success of the school to that fact. Mr. W. W. Hobbs succeeded Mr. Greer in 1892 and under his guidance the school grew until the enrollment was over thirty-four hundred. Under his leadership the fine traditions of this school were developed and thousands were graduated whose loyalty to North High persists. During most of his term of office, Mr. Hobbs had associated with him, Mr. P. W. Gates, the only assistant principal this school has had. In the recent death of Mr. Gates, the school has lostaman who had much to do with the development of the school and its fine spirit. His associates will miss his leadership and good cheer. The many students who come and go at this school will lose the counsel of a man who was always interested in and sympathetic with the problems of young people. In this, the fi ftieth year since the founding of this school, it is particularly fitting that all of us, alumni and students alike, rededicate ourselves to the highest traditions for which this school has stood in the pas t and renew our pledge of service to the best interests of this city which has done so much for us.

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The Annual staff at work. PERLEY DAVIS CAemistry MISS L. ELEEN DENNING PAysicai £rftication MISS JEAN DRUM Biology MISS HELEN EAYRS Foods MRS. LUCY EDQUIST Civics MISS FLORENCE FELT U• S. history HOMER FETZER Mechanical Drawing MISS ELIZABETH FOSS botany MISS ESTHER FRAZIER Art KQPPLE FRIEDMAN Vo rid history MRS. GERTRUDE FRISSELL English ELMER GADBOIS Musi c PETER GALIN French MISS AGNES GLASOE English MISS MARION R. GOULD English, Creative Vrit