South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Wlieii Mr. Iorgens arrived the school had grown so rapidly that its capacity was becoming taxed and it became evident that additions would have to he huilt to accommodate the rapidly increasing enrollment. Part of the assembly room on the third floor had to he converted into class rooms and what remained of it was parti- tioned ol1 into class rooms hy heavy curtains which screened from view the adjoining class but in no way mullled the voice of the student reciting his lesson or that of the teacher driving home an important point. liven the space on the landing ol the stairs was frequently utilized hy small classes. They were trying years lor Mr. Iorgens, who was waging a determined struggle to relieve the congestion. His el1orts were linally rewarded when in 19139 the school hoard voted an addition. The hrst addition to South High was ready for occupancy in 19111. This new addition, known as the manual training wing, was given over to industrial and mechanical courses and contained accommodations for courses in 1fVoodf1'urning, Pattern Making, Forge, and Mechanical and Freehand Drawing, courses which were becoming increasingly popular and soon taxed the accommodations even of their new quarters. Today this department olfers such courses as Machine Shop, Concrete Laboratory, Cabinet Making, Gas Engine. Surveying, Automotive Elec- tricity. and i-Xcetylene Welding. South High is the only high school in Minneapolis offering the two latter courses. The third Hoor of the new addition was occupied hy the Commercial department which also continued to grow at startling pace. Prior to 1904 no husiness courses were included in the high school curriculum. 1n that year a course in bookkeeping was introduced and in 1906 a class in typewriting and one in stenography were started. Eight students were enrolled for these courses. Today the facilities of this department include 146 typewriters, adding machines. dictaphones, mimeographs, duplicating machines, and Filing cabinets. Over 1200 students are enrolled in the Ciaxss oi IXUS 1 is tit iris. .fs TY. .1monsn11, II. Slrnm, IJ. .lIt'C0r'n1itk, E. lflhrwlrr, ,1lrs. Poltvr, U'. .1lcl1'i1lI1'rx, illiss Iflimiftr, lf. ilfoonfy, f. Fishrr, H. fllallixon, E. Klorrlln, fl. Hrluhvx. G. Bloomquisl, lf. Olson, C. Br'cJi'st'n, Xllixs ll'l11'1'Irr, S. Somxwil, D. S-tcrnsmi, .Uiss Karr, T. .Yi'1cyon1, A. lfhilv, C. Brrlxoii. .lliss Bill, illisx Builiy, Dr. Jonfim, dh. Cook, ,1Ir. Su-ttyrr, principal, .lliss Ifalis, .llixx l:'1-ttwll, lf. f:l1l'fi4'I4l,, .lliss lam lvliri. lf. lfwnswu, .1l. 1il0l'llll5, JI. Smiih, C. Ijfiffy, N. Trllftlir. E ,.. ,- 5.651 ill Q 6 Q ng, Q ' r THE 1933 TIGER AAAAAA,-A AAAAAAAA, illl

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members of the senior class to whom fell the honor of being the first to graduate from that building. Preparations were enthusiastically pressed. The seniors were fetcd for days before and after their graduation. The large assembly room on the third floor of the building, then an auditorium seating some 800 persons, was made ready for the first commencement exercises to be held in the new building, just forty years ago this Iune. On the evening of Tune 15, 18193, twenty-Hve young men and women marched onto the stage, gravely took their seats, and waited for their president and saluta- torian, Iames V. S. Fisher, to open the exercises. The program included three essays, Nature1s Tailor Never Made a Mistakew by Emma Anna Olson, The Marble Waitethv by Ann May White, and lf You Want a Fort, Build a Fort by Daisie Loanna Walda Strom, two orations, nlilack Spiders by Thomas George Newgord, and Honesty in American Politics by Stephen Somseng a discussion, L'Are My Possibilities Greater Than Yours? by David Swensen and Nettie Amonson, and a recitation by Gertrude Libby. The salutatory, MWhen Genuis Wants to Ride, Any Day Brings a Horse, was given by Mr. Fisher, and the valedictory, '4The Aftermath of Influence, was delivered by Martha lijorhus. In 1899 Mr. Sawyer was succeeded by Mr. A. N. Ozias as principal. ln those hrst six years the enrollment of the school mounted so rapidly that it was necessary to eliminate the seventh and eighth grades and the building came to be used solely as a high school. ln this same year Mr. loseph lorgens joined the faculty as instructor in astronomy, political economy, history, civifcs, and mathematics. Mr. Ozias remained as principal until 1908 when he left to become the hrst principal of West High and his successor was Mr. Iorgens, who in the meantime had become the principal of Iackson School where he remained but a few years before he was called back to South to pilot it through its most trying and its most significant years. Crass or 18992 S. l'Ai11ffS.t, J. Uvoolwy, E. Hook1'j', fl. Ho1'tnrl, lf. Rollfrts, I . lluslin, I . PMI, Il, Sf11us1'r1, G. Jliller, f. Tirmll, fl. Uvizlimz. J. Nmilfz, ,1l. flair, ff. Ifolyrltt, I. Sfmrjvl1'ss, .lliss ldifirlif, ,llixt Ixiirr, ,llixs Hurtf, P. ffolm, If. B-Vorzzm S. lliflmlfl. f, Ivan fiofktlnufg. S. l'r'llz'r.vol1, .lliss limi l'fi1l, .lli'x. Bohr, .lIr. Cook, Ur. ,l0l'lltHl, pliiltifwlf, .lfiss Uiullx, l,. l,mt',. F. ffllttlzf, K, .llr1rlJr1'n1irf. .'1. Cn:-zzlrrlv. I. Ih1l1rlif11'. JI. xlfllorlxwly, C. Jlsh, Ai. Yalfs, 11, llniclcins, R. IX'il'lI.'I1Il1, 17. Uioolsry. 'ir xxx! I r I N W ii-INN our Ai., A A .4 hir' J 1 THE 1933 TIGER I Il' I

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commercial courses at the present time. The exceptional students in this department receive valuable training by doing stenographic work for the assistant principal, the attendance department, and the school publications. The next addition, the auditorium wing, was completed in 1911 and a welcome addition it was to students of South High. Long since had they outgrown what in the beginning was an unusually large assembly room. The auditorium was made to seat 1913 persons. The wisdom of constructing an auditorium to seat that number was at hrst questioned and looked upon as unreasonable, but before even a decade had run its course, that capacity was outgrown until today an auditorium seating again as many would just accommodate the students in school. Below the auditorium, in the basement, was constructed the gymnasium with an elevated running track. A wooden partition, which could be rolled up, divided the gymnasium so that one side could be used by the boys and the other by the girls. Swiftly and steadily grew the enrollment. It soon exceeded the capacity of all the departments and there was a crying need for more recitation rooms, larger science rooms, and suitable quarters for a library. To relieve that condition the third addi- tion was constructed in 1916. This addition contained thirty-seven recitation rooms, science laboratories, an immense lunch room for students, a greenhouse, and a library. The library especially was a gratifying addition. Its growth is typical of the growth of the school. In the beginning the library consisted of nothing more than two tables placed between the two iron pillars on the second Hoor in front of the ofiice. On these tables were a few reference hooks. Later it was moved in to what is now the Southerner office and the glass partition was erected so that the librarian could observe the conduct in the library while she taught class. Today the library has grown into something of an institution containing 11,000 volumes, 45 monthly magazines, 15 weelilies and governmental pamphlets. Two librarians and a corp of student assistants minister to the needs of approximately five hundred students who daily use the library. Time marched on and the enrollment continued to mount. Fortunately months before, it became apparent that there was no stemming the tide of new students that HENNEPIN Avis. mom FIF'fH ST. xg 'A nmimw our All . A 4 . o1H.f THE 1933 TIGER rzzi