Wayzata High School - Wayako Yearbook (Wayzata, MN)

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Wayzata, in the one hundred years since its founding, lias seen a tiny, one room log school house disappear and give way to aii even larger structure until today the cits boasts a fine elementary school and a costly high school. In 1858. at the same time Minnesota was becoming a state. Wavzata’s first school house was beng built near the Keeslihg homestead. 'Ilie school was a small, crudely built cabin with the wind whistling through the chinks in the sides. After this one-room building burned, presumably not by accident but by arson, another small log cabin was built for school pm noses near the Gleason’s I ike Store. It was not long until still another school was built at the present site of the elementary school. In 1880 the traditional red brick school house was built and lasted until 1910. Its basement had the first furnace in Wayzata. Because of this, the school was considered extravagant. In 1906 the first high school graduating class emerged from this school. The brick structure was considered obsolete in 1910; so. during the next year, a school with three floors was erected where the present Widsten Elementary school is. Again fire struck in 1920. burning the school to the ground in spite of efforts to save it. For the remainder of the year classes were held in the church and graduates of 1921 spent their entire senior year in a city hall. The new school was ready in the fall of 1921. This is the present adolxi-stylcd building now serving as an ele- mentary school. The western section of this building was used as a grade school and the eastern section as a high school until 1951. This building is now strictly elementary, kindergarten to sixth grade. 'Hie junior and senior Irgli classes were moved to the new high school building which was completed seven years ago. The magnificent million dollar high school was placed on a twenty-eight acre sight. There is no fear of this school’s burning as the two earlier ones did. It is fire resistant, built hugely of steel, concrete, brick, and glass brick. In addition to its twenty class rooms it contains facilities for physical education, industrial arts, home economics, and audio-visual education. Old-timers would be startled to note the blackboards are now greenboards, a finish developed to resist glare. I here is no doubt that any community would be proud of this school. At the present time a new elementary school, which will include grades from kindergarten through sixth, is being constructed at the corner of highway 101 and Sixth Avenue north to meet the crowded conditions and an influx of new students. This school will be completed in 1959. In the one hundred years since Minnesota gained its statehood, the Wayzata school system has kept pace with Minnesota’s unceasing progress. lire added features, together w ith modifications of the curriculum, have given the Wayzata schools a more competent and effective pattern of education. To the old-timers this must be a realization of their wildest dreams. Page Four

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 THE COIN Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That time cannot take Nor a thief purloin Oh. better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing. Sara Teasdale Essentially, an annual is a storehouse of memories— those of happiness, of gaiety, of activities. In the years to come we will think back on the things pictured in this book; in fondness or in displacency. but it will never be in indifference.

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A voice that had been still some 30 years has been ringing again the past seven years at the high school. This voice is that of the bell that once summoned the Wayzata old timers to the old red brick school on the top of school house hill. The old bell had lain m the elementary school since 1921. hav'ng been salvaged from the school whi'e it burned in 1919. Originally it hung in this four room grade school which was torn down in 1910 to make room for the larger build ing. 18E0 This school was located at the present site of the elementary school and was considered very extravagant. The bell was first located in the belfry of the school. 1911—Although this school was a victim o' calamity it served its purpose for eleven years providing both an elementary and grade school. Page Five