The 1921 Minot High School Yearbook offers this unusual tidbit: “The Alumni Association equipped a modern Dental Clinic for the schools in 1919. Here, free service has been rendered to children deemed worthy and to others at nominal cost. At first, clinic work was done voluntarily by local dentists, but the program for the 1920-21 (school year) has been enlarged and put into the hands of a paid operator who devotes three hours a day to the school and includes a campaign of instruction in the grades as well as operative work done. To date, 500 cases have been treated, and defective dental conditions reduced from 90 to 77 percent.”

The notation concluded with, “Minot has the distinction of being the first school in the state to install a dental clinic and the only school which maintains a paid operator.”

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