THE ECHOWAN

The following comes from the first edition of the Echowan, published in 1929. 

ORIGIN OF THE NAME
 

Josephine Thomas, senior in our high school, originated the name Echowan for the first annual ever published in St. Louis Park High School.  We hope this name will always be used for the annual, and live in the hearts of all as an appropriate introduction to our book of memories.  We wish to show our gratitude to Miss Thomas for distinguishing the first annual.  Her explanation and reason for choosing Echowan will appear below.

ECHOWAN (ECHO-ON)

The name of our first school annual should symbolize the annual itself.  Within its pages we are putting the best that is in us, the highest loyalty, the finest school spirit, the cleanest sportsmanship.  We want our annual to be an active memory to those who follow us; we want to pass on to the coming students of St. Louis Park, the spirit of our high school.

For fifteen years our school paper has echoed our activities in The Echo.  Why not put the spirit of The Echo in our first annual and call it The Echowan?

This name will mean so much to every alumnus, to every pupil now in school, even down to the kindergarten.  The name itself is pleasant to hear.  Say it again and again and hear the music in its syllables.  Echowan!  (Echo-on).

Our echoes will roll from soul to soul
And grow forever and forever in ---

The Echowan

1934-1935 EDITIONS

A note about the 1933 and 1934 editions.  Don Olson reports that there was no Echowan published in 1933, and in 1934 the book was a mimeographed version called the Re-Echo..  Buzz Anthony was in the class of 1934 and came up with the name, which is coincidentally the name of our present newsletter.  We don't know if there was a yearbook published in 1935.

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