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"Seniors in the Cellar... Sophomores on the shelf"
 
  Denfeld High School The current Denfeld High School building on the corner of 44th Avenue West & 4th Street first opened on September 8, 1926. The old Denfeld High School building on Central Avenue first opened in the fall of 1915 and was located in what is now known as MacArthur-West Elementary. This building will soon be torn down in order to make way for the parking lot of the new MacArthur school. The high school that would become Denfeld was called the Duluth Industrial High School and was located in the old Irving School building. This high school began in 1905 with the ninth grade. This high school celebrated it's 105th year in 2010! The Irving School building which is now apartments, turned 116 years old in 2010! Denfeld Alumni have appeared in over 20 motion pictures and on many national television and radio shows and commercials. Denfeld Alumni have won such awards as the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Airman's Medal, the Bronze Star, the Hobey Baker Award, the John Mariucci Award, the Samuel Goldwyn Award, Academy Awards, Emmys, and Associated Press Awards. Denfeld Alumni have served as mayors, state senators, state representitives, city councilors, county commissioners, judges, city and county attorneys, police and fire chiefs, college deans, superintendents, school board members, and principals. Denfeld Alumni have been behind the creation of such products as the Chevette car, Scotchlite reflective material, Lloyd's cleaning products, Nextel simulated blood for motion pictures, the first operating optical character recognition computer program, AMSOIL, and control systems and instruments for the Space Shuttle. Denfeld Alumni have played pro baseball, football, hockey, and stock car racing and have played for such teams as the LA Kings, New York Rangers, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Miami Dolphins, and the former NFL Duluth Eskimos. Denfeld Alumni have written movie scripts, TV theme songs, and many books. Denfeld Alumni have been married to such celebrities as Lorenzo Music who was the voice of Garfield the cat, and baseball legend Joe Di Maggio. 
THE TRUTH ABOUT DULUTH It's so breezy and so freezy that it makes you sneeze and wheezy in Duluth. It's so hilly and so chilly that you surely get the willies from a climate gol-dern-it that's the limit. Take the weather all together is truly so unruly that you tare your hair and swear while you look for more bedding, to protect you from nine months of winter and three of bad sledding. It's no use of tryin' lyin' so I tell the truth about Duluth. -CLARENCE SIEBER 1925 DENFELD ORACLE |