University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1957 BIG-LITTLE SISTER PARTY Big and Unit Itlltri add eating 10 lit Jtlivilitl of tk forty. Cheerleaders welcome big. and Unit sillers. Linda Anderson, big liner, ii flanked by Ullle sillers Dinah Yenne and Smie Williams. 11:30 — V-High Gym — co-chairmen; Fern Fein-stein, Ann Williams advisor; Miss Marjorie Swanson . . . together for the first time in the 1957-58 school year tee ate, laughed, cheered, and talked . . . hut Best of all ue each acquired a new sister. 24

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fall quartrr the blue skies seemed to blend with the gold and maroon of the autumn leaves in a tribute to U-High's fiftieth anniversary. A year which began for us, as it had for hundreds of others, with polished floors, clean notebooks and sharpened pencils, unfamiliar fares, noon hours on the knoll, play rehearsals, weekends of footlmll and open houses. Homecoming, teas, committees and clubs. Fall quarter uas the old and the new. the experienced und the inexperienced it was the beginning of a new school year. FALL QUARTER

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SEPTEMBER 12-18, 1957 FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL Mr. Tkomftam addresser itkool and manor. Spooks. Thursday. September 12 — Orientation for new students — 9:00 — Ulligh Gym . . . Mr. Thompson, the new principal, spoke to us . . . The paces'' look us on a tour 0 Ulligh and the U of M campus, and answered our questions about school. Friday. Scptemiter 13 — Registration — 8:30 — Ulligh Gym . . . Mr. Thompson officially opened the school year by welcoming us back to school ... all morning ue had 25 minute classes . . . that afternoon ue had “ID.” pictures taken. Monday Tuesday, September 16-17 — Testing — 8:30 — Ulligh Gym . . . for the first time at Ulligh the IOWA ACHIEVEMENT TESTS were given in the gym. Wednesday, September 18 — First day of regular classes . . . ue read and wrote and listened and by 3:30 we felt as though we had never been away. Picture uktet 25