Vancouver High School - Alki Yearbook (Vancouver, WA)

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The A L K I mf.: HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Page Seven

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The A L K I JKMJ Cable of Contents Administration and Faculty Classes Organizations Music Dramatics Social Departments Athletics J okcs Page Siu:

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The A L K I mx.: Introduction Bly NIT. DeGaris Reeves HHN the Indian spoke the word ALKI he looked to the future. This year as we salute you with UALKIH we have our faces turned to the past, for we are caught in the tide of the Centennial celebration. VVhat is the Centennial? you ask. Come. stranger. where have you been? Do you not know that Vancouver - ' was one hundred years old this spring? On March nine- teenth, 1925, over three hundred citizens of Vancouver, with the governors of Oregon and VVashington, officials of the Hudson's Bay Company of Canada, and other distinguished guests, sat down to the most elaborate and formal banquet ever given in Vancouver. The banquet. in commemora- tion of the birth of Vancouver. was held in the gymnasium of the Vancouver Barracks, just a few hundred feet from the site of the original Hudson's Bay Company's fort. The scene changes. It is March, 18244. A boat is drifting down the Columbia. Un board are trappers and fur traders. At the helm stands a tall, white-haired figure who notices on the north bank, just east of the mouth of the VVillamette, a bench of land which he thinks would make a fine site for a fur trading fort. But as Chief Factor for the Hudson's Bay Company he is now destined for Astoria, by order of his company, to take over the holdings of the Northwest Company at Fort George. But the memory of the green plain remains and as certain commercial considerations impell, on March nineteenth, 1825, this same leader, Dr. John McLaughlin, sometimes called The Father of Oregon, lands at this spot and proceeds to build a fort. . This wooden palisade, over seven hundred feet long and over three hundred feet wide. incloses the wooden dwellings and stores of the company. Around it grows a settlement of pioneers. Some of them now file past you: Amos Short of VVitness Tree fame, Jason Lee, Marcus Whitman, Father Blanchetg Grant, Sheridan, Pickett, Hathaway, Bonneville, Harney, of the Army, and Coloncl Shaw, the Indian fighter, John Ball and Richard Covington, the teachers, and a host of others. So, you see, Vancouver, the oldest city in the State of WVashington, was the cradle of pioneer life in the Northwest. VVe invite you to review with us on this historic spot the events of the past century. We invite you to get acquainted with our modern city and its fifteen thousand good citizens. May the summer sun as it clears away the wintry mists of the Cascades and the cooling fogs of the Pacific spread a flood of kindly favor on our city and on the stranger within its gates. Pune Eight