Whatcom High School - Kulshan Yearbook (Bellingham, WA)

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MR. ERNEST F. WELLS Principal

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THE PRINCIPADS MESSAGE S IGH SCHOOL friendship is everlasting. As the years come and go this fact becomes the more impressive. The scenes exhibited, and the incidents recorded here in this manual will bring to mind the happy, joyous, carefree yet purposeful events of your high school career. These events in turn will bring back remembrances of the many friends and associates made during the four years spent at Whatcom. Time and experiences will put realization into the much quoted expression High School friend- ship is everlasting .

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PIONEERS OF WHATCOM DUCATION had its birth in Bellingham in a small one room building 153.1 located in the middle of what is now known as Maple Street-near Cornwall Avenue. It was built in 1860, and was roughly constructed oi? lumber. In 1884 the Central High School was erected, offering an educa- tion which equalled only the training secured in the fifth and sixth grades of today. A second building was erected on the Central grounds in 1889. This second building was the result of a great increase of population in the Puget Sound regions. The Northwest was experiencing an era of rapid growth. It was natural that an organization and consolidation of communities would follow such growth. In the midst of this era, in 1891. the towns of Sehome and Whatcom were united, and likewise the School Districts Number One and Two. This consolidation resulted in, the organization of the New Whatcom High School in the same year. Whatcom High increased in numbers so that by the following year three regular teachers were demanded. When the roll was called for the Hrst graduating class, the Class of '92, there were only three members to respond. When that same event occurs in June, 1930, the number will approach the two hundred mark. 4 The Pioneer Spirit has been typified in the development of that tiny seat of learning on Maple Street into our modern Whatcom High School. Today Whatcom offers the best of, advantages in education, and ranks high among the other secondary schools in the state. But we are yet pioneers for a still better Whatcom.