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A school paper under this name has been publlshed contlnuously smce at first monthly with annuals m Iune and later weekly with semester books Instead of annuals ln 1903 also a manual tralnmg depxrtment was installed in the school The same year a very wide awake debating club was organized under the sponsorship of Emma Case Moulton Some very outstandmq work was done by this group and by 1906 lt conslsted of forty seven members of the most capable boys m the school ln 1901 there were seyen hugh school teachers for an enrollment of two hundred puplls Seven rooms ln the bulld mg were occupxed by grade school classes which were spoken of as the lNorth Hxqh Annex In 1904 when there was talk of another teacher for the grades the guestxon was ravsed as to whether her classes should meet tn the cupola or the furnace room The fall of 1904 saw XV A Crusenberry who had long been a teacher of matmematlcs at West Hxgh installed as a principal of lNorth but ln December of the same year he was called back to West as principal smce Mr W O Riddle who hxd been prmcxpal there was promoted to the posltton of superintendent of the Cnty schools nn the place of Mr S H Sheakley who had resigned from that posltton ln lanuary 1905 for the first and apparently the last time a woman sat at the office desk Durmg the next few months Mlss Amelia Morton who had been prtncxpal for twenty years of lrylng school dxrected the actlvltles of North Htqh The Oracle of 1908 says that flowers stood on the office desk sash curtains were at the windows and femme touches were elsewhere in eyldence but at the end of that year there came a change xn the office Flowers were seen no more on the office desk so the Oracle says but ln thelr place a motto appeared on the wall Be brief we have our llylng to make Happy prosperous years filled with efficiency serious busmess and defintte advancement followed ln the October 1905 number of the Oracle appears this ln terestmq statement North High IS to be congratulated on the absolute freedom from rowdylsm anywhere wtthxn its walls Of nec sstty lt couldnt exlst but there seems to be no tn clmatlon to xt We are glad to chronlcle the passlng of rowdytsm By the end of the 1907 football season North had de this school year a new qymnasxum was completed and the girls were allowed to take physical traxmng Durmg the year 1908 all the schools wlthxn the city l1m1fS of Greater Des Moines were consolidated mto one school district At that same time the thirty five pupils of Oak Park High were trans ferred to North Vyftth this addition and the otherwise rapidly mcrews nq enrollment 1t became necessary to have more room Hence by 1910 all the grade school classes had been removed from the building By the fall of 1911 North had an enroll ment of 433 pupils wtth a faculty of eighteen ln a bulldmg planned for not more than three hundred pupils As a result of this condmon xt became necessary for some teachers to develop m extremely migratory habtt sometimes each of thetr five or sux classes would meet ln a different room and one teacher recalls having to go from a basement room one period to what 1s now 414 but then known as the balcony between classes each day and back again to another basement room the next period ln those days the periods were shorter buf there were more of them so while one teacher was m charge of the study hall m old 350 another could be uslng her room In those days the class work was completed by one p m thus le1ymq the time after luncheon untll two thirty dtsmxssal time for teachers to meet with pupils who needed extra train mg either mental or character The November 1911 issue of the Oracle contalns that which 15 probably North s first school sonq written by Don ald Murphy of the 1913 class to be sung to the tune of Farr H xrvard O Dear North High to thee beloved school we come With love tn our hearts ever more Let thy spmt descend from the aqe that ts past To the age that IS wattmq before Dear North High on us drop thy mantel of years With strength glrd our llmbs for the strnfe And to us gxye the spmt to strlve to attain To that qlory that is dearer than life VVhen thy loved halls we leave ln the days yet to be Mny this memory ald ns we go ln the but le of life ln the stress of the fiqht Be our armour against every foe And then when we gather at memory s shrme Wall we pledge m our loyalty true The treasures of hands and the wealth of our souls Alma Mater Dear North High to you The mam extra class actlvxty of pupils and teachers during e year of 1913 and 1914 was that of boostmg for a new bulldmg COHd1I10nS as to class room space were becoming very serious The first defimte steps were taken after a rousing assembly lanuary 3 1913 Student committees headed by Theodore Rehman and Lester Eby were appointed to carry on the work of securing signers to a petttnon for placing before the voters at the next school election 'he question of a bond issue of 5150000 for a new building for North High Students of Fast Htgh graciously offered their ass1stance ln cxrculat ng the petitions and surprlsmgly soon sxx thousand names nearly twice as many as were needed had been secured The news papers were filled that ear wlth North Hxghs need Parents alu nt and students al workmg together in a common cause de nltely revned that old North Hlgh spmt which seems to have tts ebb and flow and when electmon day was over xt was found that the bond lssae had been carried by a large majority The breaking of the sod for the bmldmg on March 23 1914 was a memorable occasion m the annals of North High the accompanying ceremony haytng been carefully planned by Principal Grundy At mne o clock the school accompanied by the orchestra filed out upon the North lawn The plow which was to break the sod and which had been appropriately decorated m pmk and green stood ready to be drawn by thxry two stalwart boys eight from each year and to be guxded by Dxrectcr Charles Hutchmson who was the member of the school board from North Des Moines and chairman of the butldmg committee This team of boys four abreast was to be guided by long and wide pmk and green ribbon lmes m the hands of two girls one from the senlor and one from the sophomore class The glee club sang Dr ldleman offered a prayer then Iudge Hutchmson seized the handles of the plow and the boys were off cutting a furrow ten feet long Over the broken ground two girls one from the lumor and one from the freshman class strewed flowers The hlstorlan out of respect for the past refralns from telling all that was turned out that mornlng by that plow The puplls and vlsitors then returned to the assembly for the program Then Principal Grundy called upon the vxsltmg board members Miss Flora Dunlap Dr Conkllng and P B Sheriff to speak briefly M Neuman the contractor assured us the buxldmg would be ready for use by February 1915 City Superintendent Z Thornburg who as County Superintendent ten years before had rendered the dectsxon against consolidating North with Wlest High made an optlmxstxc speech rn which he saxd he had lxyed to see the wisdom of hrs own earlier decision Then Dr How land Hansen pastor of the First Baptlst Church and a very loyal frxend to North High gave the concluding address The address as a whole would well bear quotmg but space permits only the last part of xt which may well be an mspxratnon to North High students still After having Introduced and dns cussed three prlnclples of lxvtng which he hoped might be kept m mmd by all North High students always th t ns a spxrlt of reverence a splrnt of voluntary obedlence to all ap pointed authorities and a splrlt of loyalty ln their coming cxt xzenshxp he closed with these words We want thts spirit of loyalty to be the dominant one nn the cxtxzenshtp here created My home my school my city my country but whether victory or defeat shall come my home whxle life shall last my school forever my cxty my state my country tlll time shall be no more If we can cultivate this spmt of loyalty tn North Hxgh we shall neyer re ret the breakmg of ground today It will appear tn lifelong rxendshxps ln unxted efforts for future ylctorxes and lf ever the need arises it will send our young men and women mto the hazards of llfe to wm safety for the health and the llves of their people The last words of Dr Hansens address were probably prompted by the knowledge of the war clouds which hung over Furope that spring The new btuldmg was finished accordmg to promise and ln September 1915 seven hundred students and twenty five teachers took possession Mr Grundy decided that summer to retire from the school business and Mr E I Eaton born and educated m New York state but coming to us from Grand Rapids Michigan took up the rexns of government at North Durmg the three years of Mr Eatons regime many new thmgs were introduced mto the school one of the first belraq the reorganization of the school into home rooms six at rst For some reason even the Oracle decided to begin over for It was chanqed from a twenty page exght by eleven ' , V , th ' ' AT- I A ' ' l . 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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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