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Home My WebLink About1980 05-28 There's much to recall about Hazelwood THE REVIEW There ( tulil- ' , IV2R,s mitt to rec II t Hazelwood a abov Editor's note:The following consists of The first year at Hazelwood was ex- sored many school and community ac- responsibilities.The first volunteers were 1971 as a sedimentation basin not only Speaking of sports, three Hazelwood portions excerpted from 'Roots and citing.It was a beautiful new school with tivities with time, money and talents. probably PTA room mothers who oc- enhanced the view from the school,but it students played on the North High State Recollections," a booklet recalling everything shiny and clean. , . books, Money to help finance programs was casionally helped with holiday parties or added a new dimension to our outdoor Tournament team in Hockey in 1979. Hazelwood's past, researched and desks, and building. But oh, the raised by various means such as bake field trips.Today volunteers include not studies.Children marveled as the pond Girl's sports have been catching fire too. compiled by Terry Stanke and Marion playground—a seas of mud in rainy sales,carnivals,sweatshirt sales,etc. only parents, but grandparents, water came to life under the microscope. As the years went by, many things Radke. weather.Can you imagine trying to get 25 The fluctuating student population teenagers, retired teachers, and other Field days were much looked forward changed.Many of the teaching staff have wiggly first graders to tiptoe along a sometimes caused necessary program community friends. to each spring.600 yard runs really tested come and gone.So did Mr.Backie who hoard to the school bus? Squish. and changes. At one time while another the stamina. Then there were those retired to a sun spot in Arizona after The completion of Hazelwood School in splash! elementary school was being built, the Two exciting summer school programs graceful things called high hurdles that many years of service in North St.Paul the spring of 1957 was the occasion for the Over the years Hazelwood has been a lower grades at Hazelwood were on split took place at Hazelwood when Summer usually toppled as you tried to fly over. schools.Mr.Hauble took his place and for coming together of the new school community center where families, shifts,one group going in the morning and Science pupils roamed the hills and Soccer games with Richardson and ten years has guided Hazelwood with an community of Hazelwood. Classes and friends,and teachers have met to work one group in the afternoon. Teachers marshes around school. Ancient bison Cowern brought out the best(or was it the understanding hand and teachers came from Arbolado, toward the goals of better education and worked correcting papers and planning bones were studied,insects collected(a beast) in many sixth graders. Soccer Hazelwood won't become tranger to Maplewood, and Cowern. Mr. Walter the welfare of its children. after their shift had been sent home. few got away),and wonderful field trips skills were begun in the lower grades. families and friends.A North azelwood Backie became the principal.Dedication The Hazelwood PTA was organized in Volunteers have lent their time and were held. Community after school programs helped Park is planned for hiking,ski ng,nature took place in December 1957. February, 1957.Since then it has spon- talents to a multitude of tasks and The excavation of Hazelwood pond in develop the interest in many of our sports. trails and athletic fields. Teacher remembers r woO wI aze still ..,,---0 moving day in 1957 � a part of the c,,,. 1956_ 1980 Jeanette Chan, first grade teacher at glimpse of their new school. 414111 IL, Hazelwood, was among those who made "How excited everyone was! There wasAL There is a touch of irony about the fact time in the spring of 1957,school officials Much of the surrounding area was un- the move from Arbolado school to the new that beautiful building, but no sidewalks, that Hazelwood Elementary School has were left wondering what to do with the developed. It was not uncommon to see Hazelwood building in the spring of 1957. parking lot or landscaping had been LATE been chosen to be closed instead of old Maplewood building. Arbolado was deer,fox,and ducks,and other animals in , She recalls the excitement of moving day completed. The students and teachers Harmony School. scheduled to be sold. the area. March 1: walked on some wooden planks, being Years before Hazelwood was built As it turned out, Maplewood is still On two different occasions the school "There was an air of excitement as the careful not to step off into the mud. students in the area attended the former being used by the school district as it had to schedule classes on split shifts students of Arbolado prepared to move to "As they entered and saw the long,wide R E AT Maplewood and Arbolado schools, with a comprises the older portion of Harmony because of the large number of students. their newly finished Hazelwood School. hallways and the beautiful, shining tiled few at the former North Elementary or school.Now,the school district is looking However,Harmony opened for business They had been promised that a school bus walls and floors, they were sure their Cowern schools. for an alternative use for the Hazelwood in 1962 and Weaver in 1967 to take some of would bring them to their new school fora school was a palace. When Hazelwood opened for the first building. the pressure off Hazelwood. visit and tour of the building: "Excitetrient continued to permeate the In the first full year of operation (1957- Even though it is closed as a school, "Students busily transferred the con- hallways as children from Harmony, at 58) about 600 students filled the Hazelwood still will be very much a part tents of their desks into paper sacks. It that time called Maplewood, and several ‘ ' classrooms and hallways — the of the community.St.John's Hospital has was just a short ride down County Rd.C to classrooms from Cowern,joined hands to maximum enrollment the building was made an offer to buy the building, which Hazelwood Ave., when they first got a form the new Hazelwood." designed for. There were four kin would be used for its variety of coin- 3 dergarten classes during those first munity service programs.It is very likely years. that many people who attended For many students attending Hazelwood as elementary students now mar y A t � Hazelwood it was their first experience will be able to visit the building to meet , �-~ �"0 a with riding the bus to school every day. other needs as they grow older. ' ' ' 4 '6- ' \ - `'' '‘ . 11: , , Iji, , j 9 a ' 4 -' ' ' „,,,,7 ,,,,,,-....' , ,,, ,,,, ',/' - , , - '1 ,, ..„ , , ' ' , ' ''''' '''-',7 i''' le-,,,;;' { P` 1 -� 111ll{I 1 ° 1 =r *s,",,,, +$. 3 n ' t �'-� -' FIRST PRINCIPAL at Hazelwood, �x,o „ ' q Walter Backie, stands at the door of the , '! d ., � ' ' �" new school in 1957. Prior to Hazelwood, Backie was principal at the former WHEN HAZELWOOD first opened in 1957, libraries were called libraries. In w u THE 1958-59 TEACHING STAFF at Hazelwood Elementary Mrs, Haycock, Mrs. Burns (back, left), Mr. Backie, Mrs. Maplewood school, which is now Har- they are called IMCs,or instructional media centers, and contain much more than School: Miss Kimwa (front,left),Mrs.Johnson,Mrs.Chan, Lowery, Mrs. Backus,Mrs.Radke,Mrs.Baer, Miss Olson, books.Like this Apple mini-computer,for example,which is being operated by Mike Miss Stoen, Mrs. Wilhelmy, Mrs. Boxmeyer, Mrs. Duban, Mrs. Knaak, Miss Jacobson, Miss Helseth, and Miss Berg. molly. Tischler, a 6th grader from Maplewood. Wed., t'Ac'Y 28` 1980 Po9e 12A 'THE REVIE,W ,.. 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