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'Q-L .4 J in Flltuth Anniversary P1 1 bmu thx hrst nl ass to gr :du :ta from North Hxgh Lnto. red ILINI Hftv ye mrs 190 rh1s lolar BLM IN dndlcated to the hxstory md zcmompllshrmnts of II11 x ITIOLIS dnp xrtrmnts of rlu xghool hroughout Ihr I1 ok LUITIDIFISUII I S. I n d Iurxxun tha old fashlomd md thc modern Lris Startlng wlth the nour uhngh suqqlslx Iwoth pmrlods of 111111 1 uh SPCIIOH ru 1 s thu hlstorx as vull IS tha lastest igcomplmhments of the de 1rtr111nt d INIOINK pu uru r1 pflllf l from old xuppum t un mud on thr IDIFOCILILIOFS pigm of each dlxlsnon v1h1lL old f1sh1omd couplm druied IH the clothes of the Gw 1ge I1 uc 1ppcf1rcd IH that xear of H93 when our hmldmg wx xx mx Q oo 1 1 1 II11 Iomst Hmm I1111l1 lm on Iorwt Aunm for rhl Hrs! mx 11 xrQ after the Qntranu 1 IX ok no wx S oss 1 spm of flltx lt IS 1 sp an hllmd 111th hlqh ums lild grf. 1t ICIUCXLUILIIIS for North H1 l ur SI111I11r1 11111 C 1 QL XN1 I p I IN rhn old f1sh1oned Louplm Bettx lou Rud xml lnmmu Olson is the mo urn DNC A ll!'l 1 N I nmmx pmrxod I 1 lf 111 Sc 111 up 1 who m1q1r 1 IIIX two In uhoo ron 1 lwhex are ga mg 1 oupls '- IIN 8 . . , I 'Lg Ii ,. ' I I A 1' II 1 l I ,L ,I ' 'S 4 'f , Jo L 1 I ' ' -.......,,, 1 5 5 1 I .- I ' I iw f l . I- I I l I I , 1 I 4 3 1 .' 1 ' -- - rl ' ' I l l 14 , I I . li A rr -1-A , ..1......t.... Q 1 , I I..-1. ' , -W ,, i Y 4 . I g ff L--H .4--, N .. I . . 11-411-n+Q.-Y, l . .1 . Q Hy .unc W'.-sllrzg ' ,, , Xp, i 4. ' . ,, , .isi I - 1 ,. ,-, ' i 1 ,. -. , V. , ,Q ' 5. . I . -. . I 'I' - o . ' 1 .' 1.1: wcn 121 1' ' ' Q. ' 4 1... ' ' . I, , .' I. ,-KH.. . ,. cs. , I Q. -L - P- '. Ol -I..I: -I 't ' VR . l' 'I1S,1 ' 51 1 ' '. . ' , II11- SllL'k'l't'KIIIlg p.1g1-s 1r1' 111 1nocI1'r111st11', srrv.1ml1nvd nI1's1gr1 In tlw .xhr p1't - tnkcn .xt thv I1 xxvr lloor, wp' ,1 .1n LQ ' ' 1 -3. ' ' g - N' - - , Ins so Illlgllf il lox' .mal g I of Igh 'I ol . 4 ' . ' 2 A' . . . ' ' ' ' '..' n- M 4S'h ll.1l I11'-11 hs.-ld .1t ' ' ' 'I 3 ' ' ' .' 4 . z ' of KI1' Ilrst gr.1dl1.1t111g Ll.lNl5 III hill I,o 1 to .1r1I tlww IIg11r1'5 from tlu' p.1,t IS .1 lllUkIm'l'Il L11 l' ' .I lv. ' ' .' I 1.1: fi KZ' .mr 5 Q ' V1-.ars J I .' . I ' 'A x - I 1 H A 'E ' .' 'gh I. .' . Q-or - x'.1nc om-L .' 43 ' ' ' 5 ' . 4 ' ' .' 4 d'
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l 'llSf0l'Y ol lNOl'tl1 SCl100l 4 It 3 spa e n tlem en rr e ro me a o de 0 t On na m Ih carl eg: 1 the ate be V1 u om m 1 g t I re uear ulcla ls mau br 1,1 Bv Miss ll!-IFN CIIAQE Anptnqq Away back xn 1880 there was mcorporated in one of the most lovely suburbs of Des Momes a new town called North Des Momes It lay m a beautifully wooded tract of land ex tending from the rner on the east to Twenty first street on the west and from North street now Llmversxty avenue on the south to Washington Street or perhaps farther on the north Forest Home School Iournal Vol 1 No 1 published December 22 1885 and certamly the first school publncatxon ln North Des Momes speaks glowln lv of the adx antages of this new and rapxdly growmg town ne of those advantages was the very new Sixth Avenue bridge which furntshed a way by which the people on the north side of the rner could reach the heart of the clty of Des Momes without traveling by the Capltol buxldmg Another was the street raxlway system which provided horse drawn cars as far north on Nmth street as to Forest avenue Also the town possessed three churches the North Park Congregational on Eighth and North the Wes mlmster Presbyterian on Twenty first street and the Bethel Fvanqellcal Another qreat attractlon for new settlers in this location was Des Momes University whlch had yust been moved from the clty of Des Momes to the corner of Nmth and Washmqton and whtch offered an excellent llberal arts education to all who would take lt One of the most important mducements to new comers was that North Des Momes possessed a good four room brick school butldtng which had qradually evolved from a one room country school to a really qood school accommodating nicely three departments the primary mtermedxate and the name Forest Home by D lohn A Nash one of the first teachers and ministers ln the ctty of Des Momes and a patron saint ln the mmds of all Des Momes and North Des Momes cxtlzens He showed his own fanth ln this new town by butld mg a very good home where xt stlll stands on the southwest corner of Nmth and Forest Axenue stlll occupied by hls daughter and his orandson lohn MacV1car Dr Nash also helped to establish another church m North Des Momes m 1887 the Forest Avenue Baptlst Church Only a few years later Prospect Park Methodtst Church now called Trmlty was built on the corner of Eighth and Washington Forest Home School was situated on Forest avenue het ween Thtrteenth and Fourteenth streets In 1885 the prmclpal of thxs school was Mr A M Miller Followmg hxm for two or three years came M D Cv Perklns for whom Perkins grade school of the present time 15 named By 1889 two rooms had been added to the buxldmg and plans had been carried out to establish a high school Mr O E Smlth had come to be supermtendent of all the North Des Momes schools for by this time the town had grown and other schools had been build Summit now Glven Oakland now Sabm bemg among them and also Lake Park now Clarkson North Des Momes High School was then definitely launched nn the fall of 1889 fifty years ago upon Its long and honorable career The hlgh school department made use of three rooms and the hallway One of these rooms known as the mam room seated about seventy fixe students and was used chxefly as a study hall but It was often necessary for the teacher nn charge of the study group to hear her classes therem The time came when rt was necessary for classes to be met ln the hall or down tn the kindergarten room ln the afternoons and even as some of the students of that time may distinctly remember down vn a cellar room where physics and chemnstry classes were held in very close quarters and wxth very little equipment The first principal of North High was Mxss Louise Pat terson a graduate of Grinnell College and a very lovely sweet spxrxted woman who left the impress of her own sm cerlty on the lxves and xdeals of many of her puplls Fol lowmq her as principal whlle she contmued as a teacher of Engllsh m the school came Mr A W Merrill who stayed only one year at North at that time The next year saw two prmclpals come and go Mr E N McKay and Mr Samuel Cart During these years there were besides the prmclpal usually two other full time teachers and drawmg and music teachers who also served the grade schools At that txme those boys and gurls who dxd not mtend to go to college were very lxkely to drop out of school whlle stlll ln the grades or at the end of the nmth grade A few years later than this statlstlcs showed that only ten percent of the fourteen year old boys were IH school With this ln mmd It 15 not surprising to discover that a rather large percent of the earlier graduating classes went on into college four out of sxx ln the first class and four out of the five xn the second the fifth one nn this group takxng a busmess college tramtng after hugh school and so on of course the percentage decreasing as the larger numbers remained ln hugh school untxl graduatlon The curriculum at that time con slsted of strictly college entrance sublects English Latm Greek German mathematics history and science with a little art and music thrown 1n Everyone then took about the same subyects exceptmg that only a few who planned to enter class xcal courses ln college took Greek lt was durmg these very early days that our colors were chosen On October 12 1892 all Des Momes celebrated the four hundredth annnersary of a certain rather important event with a great program and a wonderful parade ln which all the school children ln Des Momes were to march wearmg thetr school colors As North had not yet thought of choosing school colors Miss Patterson suggested that pmk and green be used Her suggestlon was followed for that occ mon but lt was not untll about two years later that definxte steps were taken for thelr adoption A committee was appointed to con sxder the xmportant question of colors and it happened that they met m apple blossom time After the group had dis cussed many combmatlons of colors one of the boys notlcmg through the wmdow the pmk of the blossoms agamst the rtch dark green of the leaves on a nearby crab apple tree saxd What could be prettier or more meaningful than the colors we have already used the pmk and greenl They saw ,oy hope gladness and the eternal unquenchable spmt of youth ln the green and in the pmk faith freshness and charity love of humanity not a vague elusive tdeal but a material living fact So pmk and green were adopted as North High colors ln May 1894 and they have so far weathered the blast of cr1t1c1sm and have become dear to the hearts of thousands of loyal supporters A quotatlon from The Pulse Vol 1 No 2 Aprxl 15 1894 the first paper published by North High shows that by thls time a new and larger buxldmg was becommg very necessary Soon after this forces were set ln motlon which resulted m the building of a really beautiful and for that txme spacious new brlck bulldxng nn the midst of an old apple orchard down on Eighth md College avenue The annual of 1908 descrxbed this bulldmg as one of the most artxstnc and conxenxent school bulldtngs tn the state of Iowa bullt at the total cost of thirty thousand dollars lnto this fine home North Hugh moved itself and all xts belongings ln 1896 Off and on throughout the followmg years especlally after 1901 after the town of North Des Momes was definitely made a part of the cxty of Des Momes there was talk about turnmg thxs new buxldmg over to the grade schools and combmtng North with West Hugh The December 11 1902 issue of the Des Momes Datly News carried the followmg artxcle which set the worried mmds of the friends of North Hlqh at rest for a time A member of the West Des Momes school board saxd today that the board had no idea of dlscontmumg North Hugh and using nt for a grade school butldmg We have purchased addxtnonal ground and are planning to make the North Des Momes institution lnto a model hugh school But tt was not untxl durmg the county supermtendency of Mr Z C Thornburg three or four years later that the question was definitely settled ln favor of mamtalnmg North Hugh Followmg the prmcnpals formerly named came Mr C N Clifford ln 1897 1898 and Mr A W Brett ID 1898 1900 In 1901 Mr W E Rummel became prmcxpal This seems to have been a xery harmonious period wxthm perhaps because of uncertalnty from without for xt was durmg the three or four years of Mr Rummels reglme that the very existence of the school was bemg threatened The boys of the school ln 1903 took a census of the North Hugh dlstrxct which was stlll the same ln extent as the town of North Des Momes had been xn 1880 except that xt now extended north across the rlver mcludmg a small part of Hlghland Park This census showed the populatxon to be about 7885 and of that number 207 were enrolled at North Hxgh Mr Rummel was responsible for planting along the foundatxon the xvy whlch up to a few years ago coxered the west side of the bulldtng and furnished much xnsplr mon for poetry lt was also durmg this epoch ln 1902 that Vol 1 No 1 of the Oracle was first issued the first editor bemg Rufus Harvey and the first busmess manager Drury Haugh ln 1902 also the school first assumed the management of ath letlcs and the first paid football coach was Clyde Hulsnzer The first touchdown was made October 15 1904 agamst Boone Bt-531,455 of 1 . - of gimp nd c . a pt has he .ad gi' c mp! hislory of N r h High. lu - rl of the nmrc itrreslmg erenls Iro 4- - , Um, down ,ru present h ' e touched pon. Fr ti e In time tlur'n the ne.: h e V 1 more ' 1 r wen. - V .. ' 1 , H . 2 V 5 , . K A , ' ' ,- ' ' ' .nz I ' ' v v ' - 4 ' . ' - v ' ' - . c I , - A I . Y- , g . . , t ' ' I . . , ' f n 1 U - A . . . ' -..- , K V . , ' ' ' V - V . ' 2 25' , ' I V I I - . ...F ' higher grades with three teachers. The school was given its ' . ' . , ' 'Ta . F- - . . . .. ' . ' . . . . . . ' , - - ' - ' I V , , ' 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' A 1 I c ' . , V I ' ' 2 . . . . . ' I L I . ' 7 - . . . . f . n . . I 1 ' ' ' Q . ' A - . . ' . ' R ' . Q -5 4 C . , - 1 I ' . f . K . . I -
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