SEQUIM — High school alumni will be treated to a Thursday celebration of the first year, 100 years ago, that Sequim had a ninth-grade class.
A day of festivities is planned for Sequim High School’s centennial, featuring an open house from 8:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Centennial Assembly highlighting alumni and faculty at 1:30 p.m. in the high school gym and an alumni reception with exhibits and yearbooks set up for viewing in the library.
Visitors should check in at the main office, 503 N. Sequim Ave., in the historic brick building first, then wander around the campus and visit the classroom today.
The Future Farmers of America will sponsor a dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria, and at 7 p.m. Sequim High School will host a girls and boys doubleheader basketball game against Port Angeles High School in the gym. Game tickets are $6 for adults and students
Dinner is $7 and includes tri-tip sandwich, chips and soda.
Dinner tickets are on sale at the Co-op Farm & Garden, 216 E. Washington St., and the school district office, 503 N. Sequim Ave.
Two seniors in Charles Kleinberg’s multimedia class, David Richards and Harrison Mitchell, have produced a 12-minute video that features 15 alumni they interviewed.
It will be presented during the assembly.
Basic questions for the interview are:
What was your experience like at SHS?
What do you remember most?
How has Sequim High School changed since you attended or taught?
If you taught or worked at the high school, what were some of your experiences that were memorable?
“That’s been a whole interesting process,” said Sequim School District spokeswoman Patsene Dashiell.
“It was a learning experience to the kids.
“They had to relate to a different generation.”
Among those interviewed were Dave Blake, former School Board member and from the class of 1966.
A large exhibition of historic photos, many of them alumni-donated and others provided through the Museum and Arts Center of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley, will be in display.
Antique cars and logging equipment from the period are also being organized for display across from the historical high school, according to DJ Bassett, MAC interim director.
Sequim High School centennial T-shirts have been on sale for $12, or sweatshirts for $30. There are available in the main office between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Phone Loanna Torey at 582-3262, or e-mail scanned photos to ltorey@sequim.k12.wa.us.
For other information, phone the high school office at 360-582-3600.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
