Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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Schools Have Always Been Important From its earliest beginnings, the city of Ver-gennes has been noted for its taverns and its schools. The connection will be explained when one recalls the two salient characteristics which distinguished our early settlers. These qualities were shrewd business sense and a passionate attachment to learning, says a newspaper article written when the new Union High School was finished in 1959. The old high school (top picture), whose space is not occupied by the IGA, was built in 1863, and most students remember its towering presence, while their parents remember how it felt to go to school there. The old gymnasium has become the fire house. 7

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The main visual element in the park is the monument to Commodore Macdonough, shown in the top two pictures. Stevens House, middle left, is now Veigennes Furniture at street level, and apartments on the upper floors. The City Hall, situated next to the park, was at one time the Vergennes Opera House, ar the decorated store front at left is no longer standing. and i T CITY OF ERGEN Mi.Mdrat onu

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LEFT: Cheryl Aunchman in front of the bicentennial bulletin board in Mr. Yamall's room. LOWER LEFT: The present high school was built in 1958 and at that time school districts were unified and children were bussed to Vergennes. Rows of lockers and loaded buses are two common 1976 school day sights. TOP RIGHT: Mr. Ward's 8th grade social studies class recreated an old time classroom for a week, and here with their slates are A. Pollender, M. Husk, S. Rooney, J. Dam, J. Litch and C. Brinkman. MIDDLE RIGHT: A bicentennial play was presented for parents on Open House night by P. Rose, D. Russett, R. Epstein, A. Pollender, C. Brinkman and P. Wager. LOWER RIGHT: A sight you would not have glimpsed 200 years ago is Jack Tynan with his guitar, the morning after the marathon baby buggy pushing contest.