South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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THE TIGER PRESENTED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1967 SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA ADVISOR-MISS BREMER EDITOR-JIM JOHNSON BUSINESS MANAGER-MRS. PETERSON PHOTOGRAPHER-MR. JOHNSON BUSINESS MANAGER-MRS. PETERSON

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TIGER’S TALE % » [• • »» 4'. , THE ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A FIELD—A FIELD COVERED WITH FRUIT TREES AND CORN THEN ONE DAY SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAPPENED TO THAT FIELD MEN CAME WITH BRICKS AND STONES AND PILED THEM ONE UPON ANOTHER SLOWLY THERE CAME TO BE A BUILDING- A GREAT BUILDING WITH A TOWER AT LAST THE DAY CAME WHEN THE BUILDING WAS FILLED WITH STUDENTS THE YEAR WAS 1892. AND THE BUILDING WAS NAMED SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL IT GREW AN D GREW UNTIL IT FILLED AN ENTIRE BLOCK AN ATHLETIC FIELD WAS NEEDED. A WOODYARD BECAME THAT FIELD WAS THE TRADITION BE SOUTH” BORN ON THAT FIELD? WHO KNOWS? OVER SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THAT BE SOUTH SCHOOL SPIRIT HAS BEEN ECHOED FROM BLEACHER TO BLEACHER AS THE TIGERS HAVE WON VICTORIES THIS SAME SPIRIT HAS PREVAILED THROUGHOUT ALL OF SOUTH HIGH; IN FACT. THIS SPIRIT HAS BEEN SO STRONG THAT PHYSICAL CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL HAVE MADE NO DIFFERENCE IN THE ATTITUDE OF THE STUDENTS IT WAS ONCE WRITTEN THAT SOUTH HAD A TOWER; THE TOWER WAS RAZED' THERE WAS A PORTABLE. THE PORTABLE WAS RELOCATED THE BUILDING GREW. IT SHRANK THEY HOPED; THEY PLANNED. AND NOW THE DREAM OF A NEW SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL HAS BECOME NOT A PLAN. BUT A REALITY TO EACH AND EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN SOUTH OR WILL BE SOUTH! 3