Duluth East High School 1961

History of Duluth East High School

1926: cornerstone laid for East Senior High School among white birch and spruce trees at Hawthorne Road and Fourth Street
1927: Wednesday, September 14, the City of Duluth proudly opened the doors to the school on to East's first 950 students. Overlooking Lake Superior, East quickly gained national attention when it was called "one of the most beautiful and delightfully situated schools in the Northwest" by the Chicago Tribune.
THE FOUR INSCRIPTIONS
"Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be encouraged." (Ordinance of 1787)
"The good education of youth has been esteemed in wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of the happiness of both private families and commonwealth." (Ben Franklin)
"The entire object of true foundation is to make people not merely do the right things but enjoy the right things, not merely industrious but to love industry, not merely learned but to love knowledge, not merely pure but to love purity, not merely just but to hunger and thirst for justice." (John Ruskin)
"I believe in hard work and honest sport." (Theodore Roosevelt)
school mascot: The Greyhound
school colors: red and grey
1920s: student population 950 students
1937 (tenth anniversary of the school): The Bird House Club (a branch of the Junior Izaac Walton League) built "attractive, scientifically designed homes for our feathered friends."
1940s: students organized "fat and scrap" drives and the War Stamp Savings Club
1950: East Junior High becomes East Senior High
1951: first graduating class spring
1950s: first major remodeling project to the school
1970s: 1700+ students
1970s-80s: major renovation projects