Weatherwax High School - Quinault Yearbook (Aberdeen, WA)

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Mr. Davis resigned at the close of his first year, and to succeed him the board elected a Prof. Kittle, who remained but one year, being offered a position in the east which he saw fit to accept. Under Mr. Kittle there was no eleventh grade, so it was decided not to offer more than the two years work and graduate from the tenth grade. From this time till 1900 the school remained a two-year high school. In 1894 two young men and six young women received their diplomas. Among them were Carrie Jones, now Mrs. A. P. Stock-well, whose son, Richard, graduated with the class of ’22. Richard was the first young man to graduate from the same high school as did his mother. In the fall of 1894, Mr. R. B. Bryan was chosen Superintendent of Schools. He remained with the school for a period of six years, leaving at the end of that time to become State Superintendent of Schools. At the end of his term in 1900 Mr. Jackol was elected Superintendent. The school was again changed into a four-year high school. As a result there were no commencement exercises in ’01. Mr. Jackol stayed but one year, and was succeeded by a Mr. Kerr, who also remained but the one year. Following him the schools were in charge of a Mr. Harris, who held the reins from ’02 to ’05. He in turn was followed by a Mr. Cook, who left at the end of three years. Then Mr. Arthur Wilson was elected Superintendent, being retained from 1908 till 1914, when he resigned to enter the State Office at Olympia. He was succeeded by Mr. George B. Miller, present incumbent. During the years from the construction of the Terrace building and the high school building the schools grew rapidly. Several grade buildings were constructed to relieve the congestion, but even that did not relieve the situation in the high school. It was found in 1912 that a new building must be provided and the new Weatherwax High School building was erected. This building, it was hoped, would house the high school for all time, but in just a little more than a decade after its construction it was found to be inadequate, and as a result bonds were recently voted for the construction of a new building to relieve the crowded condition in the Weatherwax High School. In the early days when the high school was housed in the building on the hill there was a large ball field alongside the building to the west. Here the boys played their games. There were no games of football as played in later years. No contests of any athletic nature were held between the schools of the county. This was due partly to the fact that the high schools were so few, but more especially to the fact that the only way to get from one school to another was to go by boat. It is an interesting fact that in the short space of less than thirty years the growth of the high school has been so marked, that from an enrollment of but twenty pupils doing high school work, we now have over seven hundred enrolled, and that the number in the graduating classes have increased from three in 1893 to a class which is graduating this year that numbers nearly ninety. May the school continue to grow and hold its place in the front rank of high schools of the state, a place which it has very justly earned. B. F. HOVIES.

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