Roosevelt High School - Strenuous Life Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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i:e:1BrinnipaI XVHICN Rooslcvi-:lxr opened, the surroundings so familiar to us now were quite ditferent. The community had no paved streets. No busses ran on 15th Avenue and pupils crossed Cowen Park on a wooden footbridge. The school enrollment was only 1250 and a number of classrooms were vacant. The taxpayers, skeptical of the plans of the school board, grumbled at spending a mil- lion for a school so far out in the suburbs. llow- ever, the rapid northward growth of the city proved the foresightedness of the school-plan- ners. In five years the school grew so large that, in 19137-538, a sizeable addition to the building had to be constructed. Recently, the city-wide decline in high school enrollment has relieved our crowded conditions so that we have been able to End space for our fine radio, movie, costume, and counseling rooms. XVe have also been so fortunate as to acquire the liroula lllemorial pipe organ, the handsome new green and gold curtain, the elec- trical scoreboard, and most recently of all, the splendid new organ chimes. Thus has your school grown until it is one ofthe finest equipped in the Northwest. These splendid facilities should inspire us to make the next twenty-five years even more successful than our first. C2c.f.9f'.ZL!5f!

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rinripal TWENTY-li7IYli Yiaxles or Roi1sicx'izi.'i'----1 Bur Sil- ver Aimiversary. How should we eelelwrzite it: how describe the :ieliievenients of our school and of the several hundred tenehers :ind the thousands of students thztt have studied and worked within its bounclztries, played on teams bearing its eolors. carried beyond its wzills the stzinip of its ideals, the nieniory of its ztetivities? lnto the progrzun eznne the tirst QZlillCl'lllg' of our alumni. zteeompztnied by Il memorial issue of the News. The Revue presented :t serzip bool: of Roosevelt activities. The senior plzly went back for its offering' to the time uf lSlT2'3. The Mid-Xlfinter Concert und C lperu included repre- sentatives of our niusieztl ztluinni. Our l'zirent- Teacher .Xssoeizuion honored :ill of its pztst olli- Cers. llnilding show eases have displayed 11 ll quzirter century of progress in the different de- partments of the school. The motif of our eom- mencement will be twenty-five commence- ments of Roosevelt. So, throughout the year, we have endeavored to portray our sehool's reeord of ziehievenient, proud of its :teeomplishments and firm in our belief that this review of them will furnish in- spiration for Il eoinbinzttion of that record into the future. We :ire grateful for the establish- ment :ind progress of Roosevelt. Nay we sin- cerely attempt to be worthy of the opportunities it has offered :md will eontinue to ofter us. 1 1

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ltlllllI-lIfA'fI't1flA4Hl7Ill1JIlt'I'i Mr. Iicrthziiiiiiic, Iinys' .'Xclvisci': Mr. liclihrwk, Cmiilsclurg Miss Hall, iirla' Aclviserg tmiclcllcl Miss liikuvlii, Uiiicu Clcxkg Miss Na-HM-i', .Mtciiflzxiicc Oliiiccg Mrs. jllllllillgillllll, .-Xttciulzuicc Oiiica-3 Kluwer? Mr. Stiicky, llriiim-lwi'g Similu-nst i'il'Ill'Zlllt'L'i Miss llzlrrl. Main Umcv.