Bellingham High School - Shuksan Yearbook (Bellingham, WA)

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Wilt: if 8 ere IICQ This is our past, a past revealed in pictures taken from the Cecil Morse collection. Here they are- the old clothes, the old furnishings, the old buildings that were part of Bellingham at the turn of the century and before. The top picture is a scene from Sehome School with Nellie Abbott, who later became county superintendent, as the teacher. Notice the slates on desks, the demurely-folded hands, the pina- fores, and the paper chains dangling from the shelf. Below the classroom picture is the corner of Holly and Bay Streets, where a sprightly Knights of Pythias parade, personnel imported from Vancouver, has the new little Frontier town at a fever pitch of excite- ment. The only familiar sight to us is the clock tower on the bank. The White House was not con- nected with the grocery store of the present clay. The third picture from the top, taken about 1901, shows the first Wliatcom High School, situ- ated at the present site of Roeder School, where two courses of study were offered, the classical and the scientific. The lvorzt in the next picture, taken about 1887, carried passengers and provisions from a dock below modern State Street to the San luan lslands and Ferndale, via the Nooksack River. This was the bustle era for women. At the loottouz, look at the stiff collars and feath- ered hats on the faculty of 1901. Left to right they are john Lee, principal, A. P. Romine, lna Pratt Cnow Mrs. Ll. D. Gnagey, who still tutors high school studentsb, Alice Biggs, and Anna Graham. The right laottom picture shows the town of Sehome in 1889. The rutted road you see twisting through the frame buildings is the original State Street, called Elk at that time. There they are - our yesterdays, a rich legacy of pioneer spirit for all of us. But would we trade them for the bright, streamlined pres- ent? No, but neither would we forget the heritage of our todays.

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. m ,.. 3i...f.., . To those of us who have lived' but a small segment of our expected lives, the present holds an appeal greater than that of the past. The pictures on this page illustrate those things that we know. Top: The totem pole erected last December. Next to top: The municipal building. Next to bottom: Present library. Bottom: New court house. From a survey taken by the Shuksan staff, a picture has been drawn of the average Bellingham High School student. This student would be fifteen or sixteen years of age. Of these years, fifteen of them would have been spent in Bellingham or some part of Wash- ington. Physically he would have brown hair and blue eyes. His ancestors would come from many places. His parents might have been born in Washington or perhaps Canada. California, the Dakotas, Oregon. or Minnesota could have claimed them. His grand- parents' roots would lie in more far-Hung places. They might have migrated from Midwestern states. They could have come from Canada, Ireland, Cer- many, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway,' or France. Many students know nothing of their grandparents. The breadwinner of his family might have a variety of jobs. Among them would be that of a logger, millworker, trucker, engineer, construction worker, or nurse. No matter how great the -salary or wage earned, the student would still pay for fifty per cent of his clothing and earn seventy-five per cent of his spending money. The person in question would hold a great range of likes and dislikes. He would enjoy shows, sports, swimming, and skating, but hate some mem- bers of the opposite sex, odd habits of people, and school.His family would have no television set, one car, and three radios. He would live in a house his family owned with the parents who gave him birth. This, then, is a composite picture of those who in- herited, not built, our city.