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

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Table Of Contents Opening Section 1- 9 Seniors 10- 31 School Population 32- 55 Academics 56- 75 Sports 76- 97 Activities 98-113 Junior High 114-123 Sponsorships 124-127 Cover drawing was done by Tina Ansell of the Old Vergennes School House, built in 1824 and now at the Shelburne Museum.

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Our Heritage . . . Thinking about what we, as students at VUHS, have inherited from the past and what real connections we have with the history of this area, makes one acknowledge that most of these connections are seldom considered, as we move blithely from day to day and year to year. One real value of the Bicentennial year is that it encourages us to think of how we are affected by what has gone before. Our sports teams are called Commodores, and somewhere in the back of their minds, most people realize that a commodore has something to do with the navy, and the navy did something in Vergennes. A member of the Vergennes Historical and Archeological Society (like Joe or Kate Pollender, Kate Royce, Mark Wilson or Martin Fleming) would be able to take that a little farther to tell you about how Commodore Thomas Macdonough, head of the U. S. Navy in the War of 1812, was stationed here and built his fleet in the basin below the Falls on Otter Creek. They might even know that 177 tons of cannon shot was cast on the Falls. Many students become more aware of the area's rich involvement in U.S. history, when they choose to write a social studies paper on a local subject. They might write about how Vergennes was the third incorporated city in the U. S. and was granted land space from New Haven, Panton and Ferrisburg; or about the smallest city's aspirations to be a state capital, and the tempestuous slaughterhouse legislature that met only once in the local court house. One aspect of our heritage which we can only imagine, is the importance of the Falls in the City's early history. When students in summer swing out over the Creek on a roped tire and drop into their swimming hole, or boat and fish, it's difficult to look up at the Falls and remember that in the first half of the 19th Century there were many industries on the banks of the Creek — from an iron foundry, saw mill and cabinet factory, to manufacturers of patent medicines, spark plugs, school seats and aeroplane parts. Water traffic is almost totally for pleasure now, and we remember it as a real means of transportation only when our parents talk about taking the steamboat to school in Burlington, or boating to and from their summer camps. We're hoping to be able to relive some of these nostalgic boat rides when the Vermont Bicentennial steamer begins its routes on the Lake. 3