Roosevelt High School - Sagamore Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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oosevelt Scliool HE growtiz of .Roosevelt Hign School nas lneen zcll us zczz Hy rapiil. From its opening in September, 1922, as a J zclr ior-Senior High Scliool, liaving 1,584 stuclents, to Fein z'1l aly, 1925, its enrollment almost Jailed, and in Fel, ,.., my, 1926, if ,Wits 2,704 In order to relieve tlzis congestion at Roosezrelt, tile Ma1'i4l Sanford, a Junior Hign scnool, was lmilt in tlie clistrict, lmt still tne enrollment at Roosezrelt remained in excess of 2,500 Because Roosevelt was Lansing 2,752 Ivy Felnruaiy, 1929, the Nolcornis, anotne1'J1tnio:' Hig-L School, was erected, Imt .Rooseuelfs enrollment con- tinueel to Le in excess of 1400, altnougn the school was I izaz I it to acco1n1no- :late L800. On account of tnis vely laliz isual growth, it nas Iween aiecicieii to erect a tnilwlj 1111 ior I1-ign fscjzool witnin tile district, anel, wnen tnis new school is openeel, tne Rfmfxselveit wil! Inecome a Senior Sclzooi, composefl of tne Iotn, and Grades. , No one will sleclare tnat tlze accommodation of a Junior ami a Senior nigh scnool in tlie same Luileling is ieieai. It is alone merely as a measure of economy. Tne complete separation will Le pleasing to tne stuelents ami faculties of Iaotn scjzools. While we have Ireen waiting for tfzis CJUSIITIIJJU separation, tne scjiool luis Ineen organizeei anal aclministereei as one institu- tion of learning, and not as two schools nousecl in ine same Luilcling. -PHILIP E. CARLSON.

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