Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Hlwelitlw lxliglatll A SCENE from Twelfth Night as presented by the Dramatic Guild in commemora- tion of our Silver Anniversary. Orsino, Duke of Illyria ' Sebastian, lwrother to Viola DRAMATIS PERSONAE f - f - - - A - GEl7RGE MOLYNEAUX - - Blu. DAVIS ' SAUL ERLICH Antonio, a sea-captain, friend to Sebastian f VVIEDER SiEvERs A Sea Captain, friend to Viola. - f f ' Valentine, Gentleman attending on the Duke ' - TOM COWDERY f HARRY HENRX' Curio, Gentleman attending on the Duke f Sir Toby Beith ' f - Sir Andrew Agueclieck Malvolio, steward to Olivia Fabian, servant to Olivia Fcstc, at clown - 1 - Olivia, a rich Countess Viola --'- Nlaric, Olivia's woman Lords. Sailors f SAM SCHECHTER A - JACK Fmi: - f FRED BILLINGS JOHN BMNRRIDGE 1 BILLY QUINN f ' BARBARA LAMPE ELLEN ANN SCHACHNER f 1 f ' f - - f - NATALXE SACKS , Officers, lviusicians, and other Attendants.

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Tl-IE SCRIP one hundred years previous to the celebration. The year is also momentous as marking the beginning of the expansion of the educational facilities of St. Louis to a degree that challenges the admiration and imagination of the historian. In January, 1904, there was only one high school in St. Louis, the Central, accommodating a high school enrollment of over three thousand students. Withiii that same year of 1904, there were opened two new high schools--the McKinley and the Yeatman-to meet the needs of a rapidly growing high school population. At the same time a farfseeing Board of Education acquired building sites in the western part of the city, in a sparsely settled region on the southeastern edge of a district known as Cabanne , For several years following the close of the Fair, the region west of Union avenue and southward to Forest Park was so thinly sprinkled with buildings that one could walk south on Union avenue and keep in sight the towers of Washington University and the few remaining vestiges of the structures which, a short time before, had housed the great St. Louis Fair. On this remote and littleftraveled avenue there slowly rose two new beautiful school buildings, the one known as the Clark School, opened in 1907, and the other known only as the Union Avenue High School, until it received its official name a year before it was completed. A It is customary in St. Louis for the Board of Education to perpetuate the memory of some great public character, national or local, by bestowing that name upon a newly' erected public school. In keeping with that custom, the Board had before it a number of suggestions for the naming of the new Union Avenue High School. Petitions poured in, some favoring one suggestion, some another. The patriotic societies did their part to such an extent that approval and disapproval of several names took on the spirit of a mild controversy. The Superintendent and the members of the Board were perplexed amidst the petitions and varying recommendations. Suddenly a great and tragic event overwhelmed the public school system and the city of St, Louis. On March 27, 1908, occurred the death of Dr. Frank Louis Soldan, Superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools and one of Americas foremost edu' cators. On the occasion of his funeral, conducted in the Central High School, a member of the Board of Education spoke these words: It will be the duty of the Board of Education to see to it that his name shall not be forgotten. Two weeks later, by unanimous vote of the members of thc Board, the new high school on Union avenue was officially named The Frank Louis Soldan High School. The school opened on September 8, 1909. The iirst significant event after the opening was the public observance of Founder's Day, October 20, 1909, the anniversary of the birth of the great citizen and educator for whom the school was named. On this day was presented to the school the Kissack portrait of Dr. Soldan, which dignihes and adorns the nrst floor corridor. The address of Superintendent Ben Blewett, life-long friend and professional associate of Dr. Soldan, was the feature of the program. A stenographic report of his speech was taken down by a pupil, and the address has been preserved among the records of the school, appearing in the first issue of the Soldan F i s A Xll QT? i j K ,, s .cs '