University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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19 3 3 B I S B I L A THE Past and Present Principals of The University High School MISS ALICE J MOTT R A KENT. Ph D. W S. MILLER. Ph D. W. D REEVE. Ph D. PhD. 1908-1914 1914-1916 1916 1921 1921-1923 EARL HUDELSON. Ph D 1923-1924 Deceased President. Professor Educational Professor, Mathematics Dean. College of University of Louisville Psychology Teachers College. Education Louisville, Kentucky University of Minn. Columbia University W. Virginia l nivcrxity CHARLES W. BOARDMAN. Ph D. 1924-1931 Director of Student Teaching University of Minnesota OLIVER FLOYD. Ph D. 1931 to date Principal. University High School University of Minnesota Page 3

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THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION I consider it a great privilege to be given the opportunity to send a message of congratulation to the students and alumni of University High School through The Bisbila on the occasion of the school , twenty-fifth anniversary. By all standards of measurements applied to human life, twenty-five years is a long time. University High School may be con sidered well past its infancy. Its history now covers more than six high school generations of four years, and comes near to covering a full human generation. Like most things that arc young, the school has grown a deal in its twenty-five years. Its earliest graduates have been mature men and women for a long tunc. Furthermore, they have been living through one of the most interesting periods the world has known, but at the same tune one of the most perturbed and distressing periods of recent history. Had more people been well educated, had they thought more, had they been more fully possessed of the facts necessary for sound and happy living, much of the unhappiness of the past twenty years might have been avoided. It is my hope that University High School is helping those who arc at tending it now or who will attend it hereafter, to understand life and government so that most of the recent mistakes may be avoided when they arc helping to manage the affairs of grown-up society. And I am confident that when they get the opportunity they will do a better job than their elders have done. (signed) L. D. COFFMAN DEAN HAGGERTY'S LETTER A merchant whose business once bordered the campus described to me some years ago the beginning of the University High School. An old frame residence situated where the electrical engineering building now stands and later used to house the University Printing Department was the site. Back of the building, through a deep cut. ran the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In front and about in the section just then purchased for the new University campus squatted other old and dilapidated residences and barns. As this man walked by on his way to work, the principal, evidently the sole teacher in the new school, was on the lawn with her dozen new pupils basking in the genial heat of a September morning. Nondescript was the word he applied to the pupils —a tall young man of twenty-five years and a little girl scarcely yet in her teens, no two of the same size, age, or stage of school advancement, a little group, strangers to each other, gathered from divers sources to form a laboratory school where the best processes of education could be demonstrated to aspiring college students wishing to become teachers. Inside were merely the bare rooms of an old residence, a few antiquated desks cast off from the city schools, no books, no laboratories, no equipment of any sort. To this man, who himself had been a superintendent of good schools, the whole picture was a pleasing diversion. But more important than the immediate situation was the idea which generated it and of which the twenty-five years from then till now have made possible a partial realization. In this period a half dozen high school principals, a striking succession of competent men, more than a hundred teachers, several thousand pupils, with scores of college professors, and a thousand parents have given to this enterprise, each in his own way. of wisdom, devotion and high service. The growth of the University High School, its expansion, its enrichment, its adaptation to the new and changing needs of children, its lengthening procession of competent graduates is more than a story of a single school. It is a symbol of the whole movement of educa tion in this land, in a sense a sign of the changing American civilization. As one school generation has followed another the school has become rich with traditions of events and personalities, the bearer of ideals of accomplishment, an institution of effective present service. and is richly cherished in the memories of the lengthening roll of fortunate youth who have here found opportunity to grow and learn. But 1933 is not the end. We may still be more akin to the beginnings of 1908 than we are to the new school to be in 1958. There arc great stirrings in the world of education that may remake the present program into something very different from what we now-have. No one can tell but the first quarter century has brought the school to the vantage point from which it may wisely move into whatever services the future may require of it. (Signed) M. E. HAGGERTY.

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19 3 3 THE +--- B I S B I L A ---------------- Faculty ADMINISTRATION Lotus D. Coffman, Ph.D., LL.D., President Mf.lvin E. Haggerty, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education Charles W. Boardman, Ph.D., Director of Student Teaching. Oliver R. Floyd, Ph.D., Principal INSTRUCTORS Rudyard K. Bent. M.A., Science, Mathematics Leslie Bergren, B.S., Science Kenneth L. Bing, B.A., Industrial Education Dorothy A. Bovee, M.A., History Anna A. Cawley, M.A., English James E. Curtis, M.S., Physical Education Josephine Dickson, B.A., Physical Education Richard Drake, B.S., Mathematics Frank H. Finch, Ph.D., Psychologist Zita C. FrieDL, B.S., Home Economics Verne C. Fryklund. M.A., Industrial Education Rudolph Goranson, B.S., Vocal Music Beatrice A. Hallberg, B.S., German Naomi L. Haupert, B.S., French Harry C. Johnson, B.S., Mathematics Archie N. Jones, M.A., Assistant Professor, Vocal Music Lucien B. Kinney, Ph.D., Mathematics Mildred Lee, B.S., Physical Education S. E. Torsten Lund, M.A., Science Ben Lundquist, B.S., History Eleanor P. Marlowe, M.A., Latin Julia A. Maus. B.S., English Wilbur F. Murra, B.S., Social Science Claude L. Nemzek, M.A., Psychologist Ruth A. Normann, M.A., English Abe Pepinsky, B.S., Assistant Professor, Instrumental Music Edith M. Quinn, B.S., Librarian David J. Roach, M.A., Social Science Winifred Sharpstene, B.S., English Florence L. Smythf.. B.S., Art Myrtle V. Sundeen. M.A., French Alice T. Torkleson, B.S., Librarian Doris E. Tyrrell, B.S., Commercial Education Gladys J. Wells, B.A., French Edgar B. Wesley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History Mabel H. Wettleson, B.S., English and Adviser to Girls. Lucy M. Will. M.A., German PdfiC 4