South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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f4'f r'g v'f4-:lv f,1vv '- - --------- --'-V7 :4.'Z'i2L: 'J.'a.551hZf.---.I gg gag 5- ...,.. ,-, ,-, 41.,1a4 ' 421 A LITERARY SUCCESS OF 1917 O make the Norse heritage in arts and letters rich with the genius of lbsen, Bjgzirnson, Wergeland, and Grieg mean something in the lives of the Norse people of America, to awaken their pride in Norse achievements that may bring to their new world home the best of the old world-these are the ideals toward which lVIiss lVlichelet, teacher of Norse at South High, is bending her energies, her enthusiasm, and her genius. Numerous magazine articles have appeared from her pen as Well as a text book in Norse which is used thruout the country. She has edited several volumes of verse and essays, and recently two biographies of Dr. Wergeland appeared from the press-one in English and the other in Norse-both of which bear lVIiss lVlichelet's name on the title page. These books have brought many commendatory reviews and a Hood of appreciative letters from cultured people here and elsewhere. lVliss Michelet has identified herself closely With many organizations for the furtherance of Scandinavian culture, organizations before which she has appeared frequently as a lecturer. She is at present educational secretary of the National Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. The following is a list of Miss lVlichelet's writings: MFirst Year Norse, a text-book, 1912, Agnes M. Wergelandis Posthumous Poems, edited, 1914, transla- tions of sketches from Mlaeaders in Norway and Other Essaysf, a collection of Wergeland's prose, 1915, HGlimpses from Agnes M. Wergeland's Lifef' and f'Glimt fra A. lVl. Wergelands Livw-two life sketches, 1916. THE FIRST CLASS AND THE LAST BY A. OLE TIMER O the class of 1892 belonged the signal honor of being the first to graduate from the South Side High School with a full complement of class night exercises, commencement program and alumni banquet. Like the student's goose egg these often came there in a row, on three successive nights. From the auditorium of the Immanuel Baptist church, the distributing point for the first basket of sheepskins, twenty-live young people went forth into a world that was heralded both cold and cruel. lt was a day long to be remembered when we left the double sessions at the Longfellow, the Irving, or the Greeley schools, and joined the ranks of the none o7clock bumsf, For let it be known that the high school student of the early nineties was a privileged character. He got out at one o'clock every day. No savory smells rose from the basement about 11 oiclock each forenoon, there was no scurrying to get near the head of the line, the cafeteria plan was still in the embryo state. No unsavory smells rose either, since a laboratory was to be found only at the state university. ln the attic of the old Adams, where this first class completed its work, there was room for no such modern improvements. Do I hear complaint from the last class that the gymnasium has no light on three or four sides? The first class never dreamed of a gymnasium, a shower bath would have been regarded with curiosity if not with awe. Athletics? Sure, out of doors there was plenty of room. Now we point with 1191

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r'f: '- iw 7'fg f5'f,I 9 U - '- ' -V' '- -' -atiiza 4. :,4J,:Q14.,,,3 M232 5 ,,,,,, - M ,N 2-.9 EZ I I 4464! HIGH LIGHTS AT SOUTH A MANUAL TRAINING TRIUMPH or 1911 QQ LEOPATRA,S BARGEA7' a boat of gold, propelled by silver oars in the hand of handsome slaves tSouth High studentsi, was an attractive part of the feature, NThe Linking of the Lakesii in the civic celebration given in Minneapolis during the summer of 1911. ln the stern of the boat was a scene of Egyptian splendor. Margaret Wenzin, the dusky queen of the Nile, Agnes Tollefson, her fair lady-in-waiting, ebony at- tendants and perfumed silken sails, completed the picture. Students Spend Vacation in Work The hottest days of the hot summer of 1911 found Alvin Krogh, '11, as master builder, superintending this construction, assisted by other faithful and industrious boys-Emun Christiansen, Harry Knutson, Henry Hertzenberg, and Norman Brawthen. The boat was the master piece of the South High manual training department and deserves mention, not only in the Tiger of 1911, but in the Tiger of of 1917 as well. Girls Make Costumes As so many teachers were out of town, supervision was the work of a few. Ever enthusiastic Mrs. Bucknam aroused the interest of the school in the project, Mr. Barlow supervised the machine work, Mr. Hawthorne was slave trainer, Miss Byrnes, a modern Luther Burbank, created two flowers where but one grew before for decorative purposes, Miss Keatley was the power behind the throne. NCleopatra's Barge furnishes us in 1917 with one of the high lights of en- deavor in the history of South High. CLASS PLAY OF JUNE, 1916 QC MIDSUMMEH NlGHT'S DREAM7, presented during the tercentennial Shakespearean celebration under the direction of Mr. Hilgendorf and Miss Fish is the best thing in student theatricals yet done at South High. Unusual opportunities for splendid effects in scenery, music, dancing, and costuming as well as in dramatic characterization were offered by this drama, opportunities well used by the directors. In the last act, Hall the glory that was Greece called into requisition all the ingenuity that is South. All available freshmen became elves and all available students became fairies, the school orchestra rendered Mendelssohn's lovely music admirably. The sewing department made fitting costumes, the senior class presented scenery suitable for such a play, the dancers, in woven paces seemed the very spirit of the poetry. The characterization, always a difficult piece of work in a Shakespearean play, was a sympathetic interpretation of a joyous dream 'fin the middle summerls spring. Elmer Leach as Puck, and Fredrick Newton as Bottom deserve special mention. Dr. Spaulding, Superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, said: 'g 'A Midsummer Night's Dreamf given by South High School, is the best amateur performance I have ever seen. 1 18 1

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fY1 '7 f7' f'f1 f2 Fqi I' - XY' '7'7 4.2124 4. J.5JaL41f.---.3g2'g2'gf .... -------,- Z-924 fe!! 41 pride to our spacious athletic field and wonder where the money is coming from to provide bleachers and a concrete wallg then, we hunted up some large vacant lot in the neighborhood to 'Lpull offl' a championship game. And such yelling! we had our regular school yells and besides that, each class had a yell of its own. Some brilliant member of the first class tl suppose it must have been a language shark! had worked out a combination of Fiji and Choctaw that once heard could never be forgotten. And we had literary and debating teams. The Adams High School Observer made its appearance in the early 90's and enjoyed a successful tho brief careerg the wonderful literary ability developed by so many of the first class threatened to deplete the ranks of the student body. Print paper was cheap then, and we used the same old methods of soliciting ads from merchants who didn't want them, using the time-worn plea of South Side loyalty. ln most repects the first class was not so very different from the lastg they had athletics to offset algebrag parties were more enjoyable than either public speaking or penmanshipg and history was often followed by hilarity. ln the words of the ancient bard we are forced to conclude uthere is nothing new under the sun. CUMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF 1892 MARCH lNVOCATl0N .......................................... Rev. J. L. Lee lissm- 'l'lie Cream of Life and How to Skim lt .......... Lizzie Luce Essm- Spiders lOriginal Drawings! ............... Florence Wheeler UHARK. T1-tr: CITIIFEWV, lAtwoodl ...... ............ C lmrus Essm'-4'0ur Education ............. ..... Q 'Vellie Yates R1-Lclurlox- Mice at Play .............. ....,... A llaufle Amonson VOCAL SOLO ..,..................,...........,...... bophta Patterson, lJlSCl ssiorx-'SResolved, That Rip Van Winkler Was More Sinned Against than Sinningf' Af'Hrmative ......................... Fred Dustin., Henry Somsen. Negative ........................... Amy Horton, Della Kirtland lNr't.AMMA'rl1s tS'Stabat Mater, Rossini! ..................... Chorus Olmrlow-'Wl'l:ougl1ts on Coininencenicntn. ..... ....... H enry Byorum lfssm AND YAuiulcrokv-f4Paradise and the Perf' ..... Kate MczcDermid l'm1sl4:vrA'rtow or D1vLo31As ........ .. .... Supl. J. E. Bradley I2'tl