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Again North High was becoming over crowded This condition was taken care of in the year 1921 and on for a while by rearranging the whole schedule for the day and run ning the classes in two shifts with home room period for the sophomores juniors and seniors at 8 15 a m with six forty mmute periods from then until lunch period at 12 43 when many of these students went home for the rest of the day The home room period for the freshmen came at 1 16 p m after they may have had two classes or their lunch and their classes continued on until 4 18 This made it possible for the rooms to be used by two sets of classes throughout the day The real problem for the teachers was where to go when not havmq classes or presiding over a study hall By 1922 there were twenty seven home rooms instead of seven a change which made possible more effective home room work At that time there were sixty teachers for about fourteen hundred pupils In the fall of 1921 Mr A Neal Hutchins came to North as her first vice principal and remamed in that capacity until une 1928 His office was the tower room openm onto the half way landing on the north stairway to the third oor in the oldest building Anyone golng to the third floor or balcony H14 nowl in those days was likely to have to wind his way up among boys sitting on the stairs awaiting their turn to appear before the judge The headlines of the Oracle May 5 1922 was Honor Mr Fletcher Mr Fletcher was then completing his twentieth year as custodian of the building during which time he had seen the school grow from one hundred fifty to fourteen hun dred in number Amonq other words of appreciation were the following North High s lawn has been one of her proud est possessions since Mr Fletcher took charge No bare spots are on our lawn flowers and the American flag add beauty to the grounds Folks are so used to the immaculate appearance of the place that they never disturb the flowers This however was before pupils had to go to classrooms out side the building Steps toward securing a school emblem were first taken when the Iune class of 21 left a sum of money to be given as a prize to the school artist who should submit the best de sign for an emblem The design presented by Evelyn Mc been developed by a commercial art company the North High emblem or seal just as it is now was accepted by a vote of the whole school on February 29 1924 When the idea of adopting a uniform class pm or rmg instead of the individual class pins chosen each semester by each class first came to a vote of the school it was overwhelmingly defeated but grad ually after the emblem had become familiar to all the uniform pm was approved by a large majority of the school Only one real disaster at the school has occurred through out all these years and that was the fire in the aud1tor1um Ianuary 24 1923 It burst forth apparently spontaneously and destroyed everything in the room but did no harm to any person For the next few months there were no assemblies and the students learned to appreciate their assembly privileges by the time they regained them Overcrowded conditions had developed in all the schools agam and an extensive building program was carried on throughout the next two or three years The building of the rumor highs made it possible for the ninth grade pupils to be removed from North and agam for awhile there was breathmg s ace P ln March 1923 Principal Merrill was elected to the position of Assistant Superintendent of Schools We were proud to know that our principal s worth was recognized but we were sorry to have him leave North indeed the school did not really give him up as we have always thouqht of him as still bemg a very good friend to North High The following September Mr Curtis Threlkeld came from Marshalltown to take Mr Merrills place Roosevelt High opened that fall and several of our teachers were transferred to the new school making it necessary to bring other new facultv members to North and to do a good deal of reorgan izmg here Throughout the years changes had been taking place in the extra curricular activities work usually improvements and this year two very important changes were made Partly be cause of rather serious ill healths resulting to some popular students who had been elected to far too many offices at the same time and very much in order that honors as well as responsibilities might have a far wider spread throughout the school a plan for limiting participation on the part of mdi viduals now knovsm as the Points System was adopted This plan has been revised from time to time to meet the shifts of interest time and responsibility connected with the various act1v1ties and it will no doubt continue to be revised by the Activities Committees and udicial Boards of the future Another improvement in extra curricular 368175 had to do with the Council During Mr Merrill s regime the constitution had been changed so as to give more responsibility to the stu dents and in keeping with this idea the name of the organ ization had been changed from The North High Student Teacher Association to The Student Council of North High Several new committees such as the judicial board the halls and ushers committees had been added In 1923 another re vision of the constitution was made which greatly expedited the early semester organization The membership of the council from then on consisted of the presidents of the home rooms untll some time later when chairmen appointed outside the elective members and later the members of judicial board who might have been chosen from outside the elective members be came by their appointment to these positions by the executive committee members of the council The organization of the council since that time has been made at the end of each semester instead of bemg delayed until the opening of the new semester and the election of serior class officers That fall Billy Sherman who had played on North s foot ball team in 1907 when she won her first city championship came back to his old school as coach and agam as in 1917 18 and 19 there began a great era in athletics At the beginning of the year 1924 Principal Threlkeld called the Council to a special meeting in which he laid upon them very impressively the responsibility of aiding in the P T A membership drive and how those boys and girls did respond' They worked through their home rooms their homes and their neighborhoods until they brought the mem bership of the P T A for that year from sixty hve to nearly one thousand making it one of the largest P T A organ izations in the United States The parents were so appreciative of the efforts of the students that they provided furniture new rugs davenport chairs etc for the club room a large room on the mam floor of the old building A branch of the National Honor Society called the Aelioian Chapter was formed ln 1924 the first of four such organizations in the city This organization together with the old custom of granting honoraria to certain students at the Moines schools in Iune 1938 bv decision of the School Board Excellent vxork has always been done by North High stu dents in music but in the days before the possible number of credits a student might acquire was so closely limited many more pupils choose music and more time was given to par ticipation in contests by large as well as small groups North s contestants have always won their share of the higher places Mr Threlkelds efficient administration was brought to an end after four years by his bemg called to South Orange New Iersey to take charge of a new 5200000 school build ng and its fifteen hundred pupils He had carried on in a fine wav the activities which former principals had initiated and will be remembered for his encouragement of student co operation in government of extra curricular activities as well as improvement of class work and for his great interest in the P T A work Mr H T Steeper who had been principal at West High for seven years was transferred to North at thjg time and rg mamed until Iune 1935 The second year of Mr Steepers administration Mr S E Thompson came from Omaha Techni cal High School to serve as vice principal and boys adviser but he did not stay with us long as he was in 1930 appointed Principal of Amos Hiatt Iumor High Mr F I Meier who had been vice principal at West High several years came to fill the same position at North and he has carned on so well in this work that he is still the wise and kind adviser of North High boys ln addition to this office he teaches two history clhssef advises the athletic committee and is principal of night sc oo VVhen Miss Sadie Campbell who became advisor of the girls and the seniors after Miss Edith Fisher left North de cided to go back to Columbia University for advance work Miss Fssie Whirry took up her work Miss Whirry had been an excellent history teacher and home room adviser and was already well known at North In addition to her advisor ship of the irls and the seniors she has charge of the whole social life o the school and still teaches two history classes In Ianuary 1928 West Senior High was given up be cause of the small number of students there About one hundred of these students transferred to Roosevelt and over four hundred to North Several teachers who had been at West also came to North Every eEort was put forth by all concemed to bring about as speedy and as perfect an amal ama tion of the two groups of students as possible glome ' ' ' ' ' V. - . -A r . . . 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rooms were formed of equal numbers of both groups and the school went forward as usual soon loslnq sag t of he North and VVest adea entarely The ye ar 1079 marked the first actayaty tow ar aq aan e ne e de d be quarang more room whach was then qre atly cause of the mere asanq number of pupals commq eyera V-H195 ter from the three trabut ary yunaor hagh schools before the elty had yoted 1 4130000 bond assue far amproye ment of the West flaqh bualdtnq but for some reason the plan had not been carraed out The questaon of transfe rrmq thas money ta be used for ar' addataon to North Haqh bualdmq was placed before the voters an March and w as deeaded fayor ably for North As a result of thas actaon North Hagh qaaned the whole new bualdmq facanq Seyenth street aneluelnq the boys gymnasaum swammmg pool nurses rooms a mueh en larged stage and a complete chanqe an the mteraor of the old est bualdtng too comphcated to be det 11led here but proyudanq seyeral extra class rooms the httle theatre and the club or musac room as they are now The offices whach were pre vaously on the thard floor of the first bualdmq where the s0Uth staarway and H4 are now were .at that tame moyed to the Some y ears Duranq the eaqht years of Mr Steeper s admanastrataon the school enloyed many anterestanq aetayanes mel undertoes some new ones whach are now 1 part of our eyery day hfe One of these as our Student Actayaty Book Mr 'l'hompson brouqht thas aclea to North Des Moanes from Omaha Technic al Haqh School and at has smce been adopted by R voseyelt Had LIU coln After two semesters of dehberataon ll the matter the Councal passed the laws requarang eyery one who washed to hold ofhce or partxcap ate an any sehool actayaty exee pt club member shap to possess were also made Mr Steeper of makmq boys and character an detlylty book up to date lNoon moyaes possable durmq those years belaeyed thoroughly an the conference method and garls thank about leadershap catazerashlp A XX est he had anataated 1 seraes of com massaons deahng wath yaraous problems and these qroups had formed the custom of meetlnq twace a year an week end con ferences at the Boone Y M C A camp After he came to North these Y camp conferences were carraed on under the name of the North Hagh Student Couneal and Home Room Ofhcers Conference untal the expense of the trap beg an t seem prohabataye 7 ae aunea ae T A with r Steeper s help ua auqur ated a se rlts of l,lSl!'lLl leadership on fe renees to meet an y araous parts of the state The one usually atteneee ly leleqates from 'Narth meets e aeh Aprll at Amee nq e atert e 1st nme years aqo No beo an se nehnq deleq ates from the councal to the Mlssoura Valley l'kCltf'lllUI'l of Student Councxls and wath the 11d of Rooseyelf Ha ah at the Ro use aelr bualclanq entert aaned thas anterestmq qroup o represent atayes from at least eaqht states an October trmq tle e rta sen out tae f t lnyatataon e other aree aools for an all eaty eouneal eonference l e meetltlqs aaye been e arraed on eyer sanee the pl aee of mee ang rot atmq from ye ar to yar e st ae as held an lQ7X before th l'North q ame and as stall beanq eelebr ated at th at d ate each year All lhqh Sehool Day on whaeh the hagh school students from tlae eomme rcaal departments of the caty schools are em ployeel for 1 day 1 the down town stores seems to haye been started an Oetober IFV47 rouqheaut maay ers the musle and dr am atles de art ments of North lhqh h1ye done exeellent work 'lhe school departments te aehers of qreat abahty and enthusa asm for thear work lhrouqhout these hfty years North Haqh has sent forth anto the world eaqhty flve hundred graduates One thtnq that speaks well for North llagh as that at le ast on two oee asaons those who haye formerly been here as leaders haye seemed gl ad to come b aek It wall be remembered that Mr A VV Merrill was prlneapal of North two different tames and when Mr Steeper resaqned an une 1935 the Board o eltae 1 IWII showee re al wvsdom an se ne ang Nlr S l lhomp soa baek to lXorth as prancap al Sante hastory as supposed to be the reeord of past eyents and North Hagh people teachers an pupals ahke are hopmq that Mr Thompsons admlmstra non m ay not be 1 thlnq of the past for many years to come t as seems to be a qood stoppanq poant 'lhe hastora an does howeyer wash to add an closang that e aetayataes of the school curracul ar as well as extra curra cul ar haye qone forw 1rd durmq tlaese past four years of M lhompson s admanastrataon efheaently and happaly for faeulty and students ahke feel has svmpathetxe lnterest an the work e ach as trymq to do 5Ql1lOI' C ASS HICQFS larst raw ack Conroy treasurer Hob Bum q ardner pre sldent Ball Alkare boys executaye board member Second row Pat Sheehan seere t ry Ruby Knudson assastant tre asurer ewel Mayne hastora an Mary Pllen Sparks garls exe cutaye board member Not pactured Ball Parker vace presadent ,. , . 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