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Weiser High School

Weiser High School has a long and interesting history:

1899 – first WHS Graduating Class
1905 – new High School Building build at XXX East Gallager Street.
1929 – moved into the vacated Hooker Hall, the Intermountain Institute’s largest building. The old High School Building was repurposed as the East Side Grade School.
1967 – moved to a new location, which sits across Paddock Avenue from Hooker Hall and the Intermountain Institute buildings, and into a brand new building.

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1899 COMMENCEMENT

Graduation Exercises to Take Place at Opera House Friday

The first graduation exercises of the Weiser High School will be held at the Opera House Friday evening. A very interesting program has been prepared and will be rendered by the graduates: Misses Mary Zilla Harper, Harriet Hunt Smith, Katharine Galloway, and Olive Anderson Jeffreys. Miss Minnie Richardson, Miss Beulah Haas, Miss Hixon, and Mrs. J.R. Numbers are taking part in the exercises.

It is unnecessary for the SIGNAL to suggest that everyone interested in Weiser’s future should be there. The Weiser public schools must be a little better than those of any other town in the state. No other thing has so much weight with prospective settlers as the local school. In our town, which, by reason of its perfect location, glorious climate, railroad facilities, and other natural advantages, is bound to be preeminently a residence city, the very best school advantages must be offered. This position in the van is soonest obtained and most easily kept when parents and friends show interest enough in our schools to visit them steadily and often.

From Weiser Semi-Weekly Signal – May 18,1899

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1905 Commencement

Commencement Day exercises of the Weiser High School will be held at the Opera House next Thursday evening. The graduates are Latin course – Minnie L. Dedman, Regina Esther Harris, Norma Mannan, Olive Mary McGrew, Alma C. Morehead, Olive Ellene Perkins, Emma Olive Pickler. English course – Mabel Gertrude Cope, Lulu Bradshaw, Anna Blanche Hopkins, Carolyn Hopkins, Donald S. Numbers, Frank Rollin Smith, Epha Taylor. The class is the largest ever graduated from the Weiser school.

From the Idaho Statesman – Boise, Idaho • Tue, May 16, 1905 – Page 2

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Weiser High School is the only high school in Weiser, Idaho. In 2006, it had an enrollment of 514 in grades 9–12.

Weiser High School – 1905

The Weiser School District used the campus style buildings of the closed Intermountain Institute to house the school until 1967 when a new high school was built nearby.

Every June, Weiser High School hosts the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest & Festival. The competition is held in the gymnasium, and most of the contestants camp in the school’s sports fields.

WHS also takes students who live in Annex, Oregon, a 1-8 charter school.

The following sports are offered at Weiser High School: Baseball (boys), Basketball (boys and girls), Cross Country (coed), Football (boys), Golf (coed), Soccer (boys and girls), Softball (girls), Tennis (coed), Track (coed), Volleyball (girls), Wrestling (boys and girls).

In a history-making performance, the Weiser High School baseball team walked away with a three-game sweep and a state 2021, 3A championship title.

The Wolverines entered the state tournament, drawing undefeated Marsh Valley, the No. 1 team in Idaho.

Weiser felt the pressure, but rose to the challenge.

Final score: Weiser 12, Marsh Valley 10.

It is the first state championship in Weiser High School baseball history.

Notable alumni:

Donald Anderson – Idaho Supreme Court justice (1955–56)
Herman Welker – U.S. Senator from Idaho (1951–57). Class of 1924
Roger Batzel – Director (1971–88) of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Class of 1940
Harold Ryan – U.S. District Judge – District of Idaho (1981–95). Class of 1941.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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