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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iinstoriral Mptrli nf Alim'imt liiyli § rluuil S A REAL high school, this, the Aberdeen High School, had its beginning some thirty years ago, when in 1890 it was found there were enough pupils in the district who had completed the eighth grade and who desired further schooling, to warrant the school board to employ a teaching force sufficiently • large that at least two years of high school work might be of- The board elected Prof. Campbell as principal of the school, and under his direction the first high school was organized. At this time it was decided to offer but three years’ work above the grades. As a consequence no graduating exercises were held for two years after the organization of the school. During the two years that Mr. Campbell served as principal the high school was housed in a two-story building of four rooms, located on Wishkah Street, between G and H Streets, where the Wishkah Block now stands. By this time the school population had grown so that the district was confronted with the problem of providing more adequate quarters for the high school. Several good building sites were available, all of which were considered by the board. The final selection of the site on the hill was made and a new building erected. As the city grew and more buildings were needed to house the grade children, this building on the hill became known as the Terrace High School. It is now called the A. D. Wood School. At the time of its construction this building was the largest and most up-to-date building in the whole county. The $25,000 spent in its construction was at that time considered rather a fabulous sum to invest in a school building. In 1892 the school board elected Prof. T. T. Davis as head of the school and gave him the title of Superintendent of City Schools. It was hoped the new building would be ready for occupancy on September of this year, but for some delay it was not completed. At the end of the third month of school, however, the building was finished, and the entire student body, grades as well as the high school, were transferred to the new building on the hill. This marks the real beginning of the high school, for in the spring following the class of 1893, the first to be graduated, were given their diplomas, having completed the three years required at that time for graduation. In the first class to be graduated from the high school were three young ladies, namely: Bessie Crammatte, Jessie Haynes and Elizabeth Kellman. All three of these young women taught school for a few years, later marrying and becoming very successful housewives and homemakers. Miss Crammatte is now Mrs. L. P. Dudley, and a resident of Aberdeen. Mary Dudley, her daughter, is a member of the class that finishes school this year. Miss Dudley has the distinction of being the first daughter of a former graduate to receive a diploma from the same school from which her mother was graduated. fered.

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