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Whatcom Vllqlhree Decades Ago Father, you promised to tell me this evening about Whatcom as it was when you went there, suggested Daughter, one night as she lay on the rug before the fireplace. The laughing, cracking flames danced merrily about the alder logs, casting weird but fas- cinating shadows on the wall. Well, Dear, it has been thirty years since I graduated from tl1at institution and much has happened since, but there is always ti1ne to tell of the happy days gone by. This morning, when you walked up the steps of Whatcom, you were approaching a modern building with a faculty numbering over fifty, comfortably decorated class rooms, the best auditorium in town, a gymnasium of which to be proud and above all, a school over which that abstract quality Spirit held sway. Honorable competition, backed by Spirit provided for you and the other eleven hundred students, has supplied that Something which was lack- ing in Whatcom in 1896. Two similar two-story buildings located on tl1e site of the present Roeder School constituted the structure of your same Whatcom of thirty years ago. There was no gymnasium and neither was there need of one, because our athletics consisted of a football purchased by interested students, and kicked in the yard in front of the school building. There was no auditorium for the sixty studentsg and the only organization was the Literary Society organized by Roy Hadley and Will Pratt. This society was very active, considering that there was no field of competition for their debates, Seattle being the nearest competitor. Our choice in choosing a course was what was provided, an academic or cultural preparation, emphasizing General History, Rhetoric and Political Economics. Caesar was the only Latin taught, Virgil being added in 1906 and Cicero being omitted entire- ly. The course in Science offered was very limited and inadequate. The equipment consisted of a static machine and two or three acids. For both physics and chemistry, frequent visits to city plants were necessary to make the courses sufficiently educational. It was not until 1903 that the first unit of the present high school was built on Halleck Street. The capacity of the one story and basement was from two hundred and fifty to three hundred students and in three years, a vocational shop was erected on Irv- ing Street. In 1908, the student's demand for a vocational educa- tion beca111e so great that another building was necessary to ac- comodate the number. A brick building was built between the building proper and the shop. In 1916, eight years later, Whatcom stood as it does now.. As I walked 011 my way to little Old Whatcom, I whistled to the birds in the woods, now Holly Street. The vicinity of the Morse Hardware and of Old Town were the only settled parts of Bell- ingham at that time. There was a little white school house on the beach called Sehome, among tl1e students of which were John Kel- logg and Hugh Eldridge. It is time that you were in bed now. Run along, and if any of your classmates wonders about the history of his high school, tell him the same Redskin Spirit, although much less cultured, was in the making, and it prevailed in Whatcom, life three decades ago. X'
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