Valley High School - Tiger Tales Yearbook (West Des Moines, IA)

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The fourth teacher was added to the high school corps in l882, when W. W. Ainsworth came as the first teacher of book-keeping the school had known. Physical culture was first introduced in ISS5, when Miss Kunkle began her work, raising the number in the corps to five. But all this time the enrollment continued about the same and no efforts seemed to avail to raise it above I50. During the principalship of Mr. R. D. jones, who succeeded Mr. Cary in 1883, the first regular high school paper, the High School Herald, was published, Alice Clark being editor- in-chief and Falk Younker, business manager. The first of a long series of debating societies was organized in l885. Perhaps a forerunner of the athletic trips of a latter day may have been the trip made during this administration by a class of boys and girls to the town of Panora, of athletic fame, where they entertained the admiring citizens by such mild forms of athletics as wand drills and fancy marching exhibitions in an overheated diminutive hall called an nopera housed Mr. Jones was succeeded in ISS6 by Mrs. L. T. Morrow, during whose term the board of directors began a more liberal policy toward the school, which resulted in the beginning of what has been constant growth ever since. The beginnings of a commercial course were made in ISS6, another teacher was employed, science was made more of a feature and laboratory methods were introduced, and on the nineteenth day of April, l889, the school dedicated its new building, a part of the present school plant. At this time one of the speakers remarked that Des Moines now had a high school building that would serve and be sufficient for the needs of all future time. But new accommodations and new advantages attracted pupils and the growth of the school has been very rapid. At this time there were 210 pupils, in l892 the 300 mark was passed, and in IS96 the enrollment was 476. ln l889 Mrs. Monow was succeeded by Miss Celia Ford, who was principal for two years. Mr. H. T. Kincaid served as principal from l89l to I893, followed by Mr. William Wilcox from 1893 to l896. Manual training and domestic science departments were opened in September, 1890, and much advancement was made in all lines of work during this time. Perhaps the first appearance of athletic activity of definite form was in the organization of a football team in l89Z, and since that time this has been a factor of high school life of ever increasing importance. The golden age of the high school came not at the beginning but in its most recent history. The administration of Principal W. O. Riddell, beginning in IS96 and closing but a few months ago, was an era marked by great advancement in equipment, by development of the courses of study, by increased influence and reputation of the school, and by the growth of a school spirit and loyalty which means much more than is generally understood. But extended treatment of this period is perhaps unnecessary at this time. The most notable event was the addition of the new building, which was occupied for the first time in October, 1903. Mr. W. A. Crusinberry, who entered upon the duties of the principalship in January, l905, had already been connected with the school for so long a time and had so favorably impressed teachers and pupils that his coming from North High was but the return of an old friend rather than the beginning of a new rule. ALBERT MERRILL, SCVEl'll1CCl'l C I 9 0 5 ANNUAL W. D. M.

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