Patrick Henry High School - Orator Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Peripatetic teachers . . . Brief cases for desks . . . Different rooms every period . . . No proper place for work or con- ferences ... The patient teachers at Henry High have put up with these things for many a school day. They exemplify our theme Growing Pains because they too are growing, not in size, but in number, causing our halls to ring with the click of their heels as they hopefully look for an empty room in which to hold class.

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Prescription for Growing Pains An extreme need ... A long awaited dream ... A crackajack plan .. . Carefully calculated blueprints. A bright future is looked upon by Mr. Shultz and Mr. Davis shown here looking over the plans which seem to be the answer to Henry’s problem of expansion. Twenty-eight years ago, civic leaders in the northernmost section of the city recognized the need for a junior high school to serve this area. Since that time, the school requirements of the area have multiplied and the foresight and determination of its people have kept pace. Three additions— in 1928, 1929, and 1939—completed the building which we now know as Patrick Henry Junior-Senior High School. Today, in the same shadowy provinces of dreams and visions, the people of the community and the staff of the school have poured their skill and effort. From this effort have come plans for the new Patrick Henry—a complete senior high school with added facilities for our ever-growing high school enrollment. The New Addition will be completed by the fall of 1956, and by I960, twenty-two hundred students will be enrolled in our school. It is for those hundreds, and the thousands who will follow them, that we—the parents, the architects, the workmen, the teachers — have dreamed and worked. This has been labor for a vital commodity. This co-operative enterprise, that began as a dream, will soon pay dividends in the lives of Henry students and their community.