Roosevelt High School - Sagamore Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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OICWOI' T may be difficult to measure the progress of an institu- tion that deals in things that are material, but it is vastly more diflicult to measure the progress of an institution which deals in things that are spiritual. The bank examiner can determine with considerable accu- racy Whether or not a bank is making progress. If he learns that the number of depositors is gradually increasing, that the amount of deposits is growing, and that these deposits are in- vested with safety, he decides that the bank is making progress. The Wholesale or retail business which increases its volume of business year after year may or may not be progressing, but when there is a constant increase in its profits and its sur- plus, it is certainly making progress. What is true of the Whole- sale or retail business is equally true of any industrial concern dealing with material things. The progress of an institution of learning is not so easily determined because it deals almost exclusively in spiritual values. lt is true that a school is judged by many people by its victories in interscholastic contests, and that is one yardstick of measurement. By that yardstick, it can be stated that our school has made real progress during the first decade of its history. We have Won victories in debate, oratory, declamations, music, prose, poetry, art, and athletics. But, when these victories of the past have become mere records on the pages of the history of our school, we shall be able to measure, even better than We can today, the spiritual influences of this institution. -PHILIP E. CARLSON -l14lr B. NEXX'ELI. OLSON NliL.SON P. Csarsow Row l Row RXLYNOLDS MOORE Id.-XINER Row IONES PIAYIZRSTOCK lJOUGIIliRTY S'roU1f12R ANDERSON KIMBALL SBIART GRUBER FERGUSON Tnoixras EDVVARDS GRYCE GREENWOOD MCCR.ADIE CLAUS Row Row ROW LARSON ULRICH NlORRIS II NEPRUDE I'lAvEN BIELDANES III HEATH XVESTBY LYNCH IV M. NEWELL S. CARLSON MOLAN V BERGFALK GOODRICH LAIRD VI REDLUND Hor.zER BERTLESON STEINHAUSER

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'Philip E. Carlson 'Principal william 'P. von Severn Assistant 'Principal

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HENRY THRU vorv LEVERN DLscH CLEIXIENT RICE ZIIIJP,xIsx EGGAN Tiroixrpsox HARRIS FOLSOIXI l'IIiILINIAN STRANDIORD Os1'IiRIfIUs WOHLFORD SCHULTZ BUCKINLAN X F 5 Row I Row Row Row DALY FAIRCHILD BRUCE II FARsL'I H REID SA:-:BY III BERKI-IIsIIxrLR ZILIIING FIGGL IV MILLER TSCHUhIPhRLIN GERARD Row V WEUM LUNDEEN HENNIBG 1 N s s E T116 TC3Cl'1Cf7S IHHUCHCC HE architect may plan and the builder may build a beau- tiful school building, but it requires the influence of a real teacher to make that school truly progressive. We have been singularly fortunate at Roosevelt in the fine quality of our teaching personnel. They are skillful in their technique and sympathetic in their helpfulness. I can think of no better admonition to give to our teachers than to quote the literary gem to the world in these beautiful lines by Charles Elbert Whelan just before he answered the call of his Maker: 'gThere are lives you touch in your course each day: Some cross your path and some go your wayg And some there are that have gone astray. Howeier you think, all thc passing throng Are swayed by you to the right or wrongg Are helped by you to be weak or strong. Some one, unknown, has been watching you, And shapes his life by the things you dog Helll still move on when your journcyls through. You can't touch life in the mass or the man Without you'vc altered the line and plan That has been the carthis since time began. Then measure life by the contacts made: There are folks that only shall make thc grade Through the way you've walked and the part you've playeclf, -PHILIP E. CARLSON 'fl 15 l'