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Yes, there will be a new LHS Lewiston’s high school bond passes with 75 percent approval This story originally was published on March 15, 2017.
By MARY STONE OF THE TRIBUNE
The Lewiston School District’s high school bond proposal captured 75 percent voter approval Tuesday, and Lewiston School Board President Brad Rice had three words to
sum up his response. “Thank you, Lewiston,” Rice said as he accepted congratulations from board members, administrators, teachers and community volunteers. Out of 11,475 votes counted Tuesday, 8,659 were in favor of a $59.8 million bond for building a new high school in the Lewiston Orchards. There were 2,816 votes against the measure. That represented about 66 percent voter turnout in an election that has been almost 3½ years in coming. Attempts to pass a $52
million bond for a proposal at the same site off Warner Avenue earned 61.8 percent and 51.6 percent majorities in 2010 and 2011. A $34.8 million bond attempt received just 46.3 percent in 2004. School bond measures in Idaho require a 66.67 percent supermajority to pass. The path to Tuesday’s election began in September 2013, when the Lewiston School Board passed a resolution calling for a ninth through 12th grade high school. Freshmen currently at-
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hen future Lewistonites look back on the history of their community decades from now, they might reflect more fondly on 2020 than seems possible at this moment. That’s because 2020 will be remembered as the year the new Lewiston High School opened. Students will pass through the doors of the 204,000-square-foot school for the first time this morning, ushering in a new era in the town’s long history of education. It’s the collective hope of Lewiston-Clarkston Valley citizens that the $59.8 million facility, along with the complementary A. Neil DeAtley Career Technical Center, will fortify the city’s young people for the complexities of the 21st century. So how could the new school perched on an expansive field in the Lewiston Orchards overshadow a pandemic globally and simmering tensions nationally? Well, decades from now, those trials will be over — hopefully. And the new Lewiston High will still be a cornerstone of the community. This will be the seventh building to bear the name Lewiston High, but only
the previous facility on Normal Hill, which churned out graduates from 1928 until last spring, is accessible to living memory. So the Tribune commissioned Steven Branting, institutional historian at LewisClark State College, to provide a long view of education in Lewiston. In this section, Branting tells us about those previous schools and some of the noteworthy graduates who passed through their halls. Tribune photographers have been on the scene to document the construction of the new school, and some of their best images can be found herein. The enthusiasm for the new facility can perhaps be measured by the number of businesses and organizations that purchased advertisements in this section to celebrate and congratulate on this milestone day. The story of the new school will be written by our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the years to come. And, heck, the new LHS might already be the best thing about 2020. — Matt Baney, Tribune
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People tour the new Lewiston High School. This view shows the front entrance of the school. August Frank/ Tribune
ABOVE: A student playing a trombone, joins in performing the school ďŹ ght song with the rest of the band as the ribbon is cut at the new Lewiston High School. RIGHT: Independent School District Superintendent Bob Donaldson points toward the stage of the P1FCU Auditorium at the new Lewiston High School during its construction. August Frank and Pete Caster/Tribune
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They all went by the same name: Lewiston High Before the town’s new school opens today, here’s a look back at six previous LHS buildings By STEVEN BRANTING FOR THE TRIBUNE
Lewiston High School (1879-83) By 1871, concerned Lewiston citizens agitated for the construction of a proper schoolhouse. A special tax was levied to raise the funds, estimated to be $1,450 ($228,000 today) in terms of project costs. The levy fell well short of the final cost. A group of parents, led by Mrs. John Vollmer, stepped in and sponsored a “town ball” in a local saloon converted into a public hall. The gala event was a social success, raising several hundred dollars. The resulting building opened in 1872 at 10th and Main streets, with Miss Nancy Simmons as the lone teacher, and was praised as “the best school building in Idaho.” An addition to the school became necessary by 1874. Sadly, no images of the building are known to exist. Students and teachers finally completed their first nine-month school year in 1878-79. Then, on Dec. 30, 1880, the 11th Territorial Legislature chartered Lewiston as Idaho’s first public school district. A high school curriculum was already in place, and school was graded. It would be awhile before every student received textbooks, which had been introduced in 1879.
Lewiston High School (1883-98) The schoolhouse was soon outgrown by the town, and the structure was replaced by an $11,000 ($1.5 million) levy with a stately three-story structure that opened in the spring of 1883 and stood until 1939, when it was torn down and replaced with a community rose garden. Its rooms were described as “fine, large and cool.” In March 1888, the older students at the public
CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE LEFT: This building served as Lewiston High from 1883-98. This structure served as Lewiston High School from 1898-1904, and was where purple and gold became the school’s official colors. The Rev. John McConkey. This building served as Lewiston High from 1904-14, then was the original Webster Elementary School.
school walked out in protest when their teacher was fired and formed a new high school of their own. Among the rebels was Edward Martinson, who rose to captain in the Spanish-American War and was later the city’s fire chief. He later joked that he was not allowed to go back to graduate after his act of defiance. After several years of offering a high school curriculum without a diploma, the embarrassed school board responded by officially creating Lewiston High School. In
1890, the first diplomas were awarded, a decade after the Teller, Lewiston’s newspaper at the time, began reporting on “high school” activities and high school courses were in place. After no students took diplomas in 1892 and 1893, school administrators and parents decided that an annual graduation ceremony was needed to spur enrollment. On Friday, May 25, 1894, eight girls received their diplomas, not at the school, but at the Masonic Lodge that once stood on
First Street, where Sonoco stands today. The campus was very crowded, with all of the city’s students at the one site. Lewiston’s population had grown from 850 in 1890 to nearly 2,500 in 1900. High school athletics were forced to find space on Normal Hill. The natural question became: Why not built a new school there just for the high school?
Lewiston High School (1898-1904) By 1898, the public school at 10th and Main
streets was in desperate need of renovation. A bond election approved a levy to raise $15,000 ($2.5 million today). The old “Lewis and Clark Public School,” as it was then called, had become overcrowded because of the additional high school classes being taught and increasing enrollment.
Lewiston High School awarded diplomas after grade 10 at the time. The new school was built at the same site of the first two schools, and a third year was added. Many people still remember the building as the old Whitman Elementary. With the opening of the school, the district hired its first full-time superintendent, the Rev. John McConkey, the rector of the Church of the Nativity-Episcopal. The Class of 1900 chose purple and gold as the official school colors. No graduation was held in 1904, when a 12th year
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Lewiston High School (1914-28) The arrival in 1913 of Frank W. Simmonds as Lewiston’s superintendent marked the greatest change to date in the school district structure. Simmonds proposed
the 6-3-3 grade plan and, in September 1914, moved the junior high school and high school students into separate wings of the newly completed high school, the center portion of which had been erected in 1910 as a gymnasium and manual arts building. Simmonds described the program as a “six-year high school.” The school had its own principal and was described as being “wellmatured ... with a splendid curriculum” in 1919. In December 1924, the student body chose “Bengals” as the school mascot, which was modified to “Golden Bengals” in 1945. The building served as a junior high school until 1959 and was razed 10 years later.
Lewiston High School (1928-2020) When architect Curtis Richardson submitted his plans for a new high school building in 1927, his visions were already Lewiston landmarks. He designed LCSC’s Administration Building, Spalding Hall and the Elks Lodge at Eighth and Main streets.
Richardson would think big. The new high school building was to be constructed on a city block that had served as a PE field. The new building contained the first dual heating system in the Pacific Northwest, allowing teachers the ability to control the temperature in their classrooms. Classrooms also featured an intercom
system connected to the main office. One element of Richardson’s design surprised residents: The school would have its own kitchen and cafeteria for what seems to have been Idaho’s first hot-lunch program. The auditorium served a duel purpose for plays and concerts. When back curtains were withdrawn, a gymnasium
appeared. In 1955, as the “baby boom” approached, major additions were completed to the high school. The east and west wings added two floors of classrooms, choir and band rooms, and a library to the original structure, virtually doubling the size of the footprint of Richardson’s plan. By the 1950s, the high
school stage had long since ceased as the site for basketball games. Contests were played at the Northern Idaho College of Education (now LCSC) gymnasium. Old Webster Elementary was torn down in 1960 to make way for Booth Hall, which was completed in the spring of 1963 and opened to classes in the fall. The machine shop opened in 1962. Four classrooms were added to the auto shop in the summer of 1963. After having been in disuse since 1959, when Jenifer and Sacajawea junior high schools opened, the 1914 building was torn down in 1968. Workers salvaged 15,000 bricks for use at other sites. Contractors built the science and ICA buildings in its place.
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By 1902, the Lewiston Morning Tribune was reporting that “arguments in support of the movement were directed at the poor condition of the old wooden building at the Whitman School site.” Robert Wright, Lewiston’s superintendent of schools, actively campaigned for expansion in the wake of increased enrollment. A bond election in 1903 raised $35,000 ($2.5 million today) to construct a 12-room school at a new campus above the flood-prone Clearwater flats on Main Street. Beer baron Christ Weisgerber sold the school district three city blocks of parcels at the top of the 13th Street grade, for $3,750 ($300,000), within weeks of the election. The design of the school was quickly prepared, and local contractor Harry Madgwick’s masons and carpenters set to work, completing the building in time for the opening day of the 1904 school year. In 1914, the building was repurposed as a new elementary and renamed Webster, serving in that role until 1948. By 1909, the high school had 200 students, necessitating additional facilities. A bond election that year raised the funds to construct the high school’s first gymnasium and a new manual arts center.
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> Continued from PAGE 1 tend the school district’s two junior highs. Tears filled Superintendent Bob Donaldson’s eyes Tuesday night as he embraced LewisClark State College President Tony Fernandez at a postelection party in Lewiston’s Towne Square. Donaldson and Fernandez have promoted the idea of sideby-side career and technical education centers to expand technical education in Lewiston — and possibly regionally. The college is on track to get $10 million in funding for its $20 million project from this year’s Legislature. Marvin Dugger opposed the bond effort in 2011. This time around, he was celebrating with bond proponents. “This is a great day for Lewiston,” Dugger said. “This is a great day for our region.” He supported this proposal in large part because the career and technical education center was included in the design. “We’re going to have a world-class learning center in Lewiston, Idaho,” Dugger said. “It’s going to bring in industry.” Bond campaign Co-Chairman Darin Ball praised the efforts of more than 300 volunteers who organized the Yes LHS campaign, which included information fairs, more than 50 in-home “cottage meetings,”
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: An LHS student gives people a tour of the bridge stretching across the main commons. People check out the food court at the new Lewiston High School. Early morning light deflects off the metal skeleton being built near the front of the school. Visitors get their first look at the gymnasium at the new high school.
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1928 to serve with the New 1905, Idaho Gov. James Hawley York National Guard. selected Monteith to sing at the Recalled to active duty in opening of the Idaho Pavilion 1940, Axelson commanded for the Lewis and Clark Cententhe 991st Field Artillery nial Exposition in Portland. Battalion from April 1943 In 1916, he was elected to to October 1944. Few units be the first president of the smaller than a division perOregon Music Teachers Asformed as well as did the 991st sociation and would serve three under his command during terms. He toured throughout Oscar Axelson the war against Germany. the United States, presenting Besides participating in the lectures and musical programs. Battles of Normandy, Northern France, He and his wife, Olive, settled in Los the Rhineland, the Ardennes and CenAngeles, where he was associated with tral Europe, the 991st placed the first the University of Southern California. American artillery fire into Germany Avery Cummings (1897) and on Cologne. Its batteries also deCummings was commissioned a stroyed many pillboxes in the Siegfried second lieutenant with the 29th InLine by direct fire and participated in fantry on June 13, 1905, after his street fighting from Aachen to the Elbe. graduation from West Point. He rose During the Battle of the Bulge, in the rank to first lieutenant in 1911 Axelson commanded the 406th Field and captain in 1916, when he joined Artillery Group. On the first day of the faculty of the University of Idaho the battle, at Elsenborn Ridge, he as a professor of military science. decided on his own authority in the Returning to war duties upon the midst of the emergency to use the entry of the United States into World newly developed, highly classified War I, he was promoted to the rank proximity fuse that allowed shells to of major in August 1917, and then burst in the air above ground troops. to lieutenant colonel and full-bird Axelson rose to the rank of colonel colonel within four weeks in the fall and after Japan surrendered to end of 1918 after actions on Sept. 29: World War II, served in the Allied “The Distinguished Service Cross occupation government as the chief is presented to Avery D. Cummings, of the Kochi Civil Affairs team. He Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordiretired from the Army in 1951 and died nary heroism in action near Gesnes, in 1979. He is buried at West Point. France, September The expression “Avant le Char 29, 1918. During the de Mort” — Before the chariot attack on Gesnes of death — was written in chalk Colonel Cummings, on one of the unit’s 155-mm field then a lieutenant pieces during the drive from Norcolonel, in addition to mandy to Germany in late 1944. performing his reguKester Hastings (1916) lar duties as brigade Hastings graduated from West Point adjutant, 181st Brigade, in 1918 and joined the Third Infantry went forward with the Division as part of Germany occufront line of attack, Avery pation forces in 1919. After various directing the organizaCummings other assignments, he was transferred tion and outposting of the front line after Gesnes and the army to the Quartermaster Corps in 1934. objective beyond it had been captured. In the fall of 1940, he All of the senior officers of the assaultjoined the Construction ing regiment having been killed or Division, Office of the wounded in the attack on Gesnes, he Quartermaster General, unhesitatingly organized the scattered where he was in charge elements of the regiment and pushed of the operational the attack home to final success.” construction of camps Oscar Axelson (1912) and industrial facilities Kester in the United States. Axelson graduated from West Point Hastings In May 1949, Hastin 1918. He left the regular Army in
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Camille Sorey (1931) Sorey became known professionally as Julie Gibson. She sang with the Jimmy Grier Band and dubbed the singing voices for Diana Lynn and Betty Hutton in a couple of movies for Paramount. She first appeared on the screen in “Nice Girl?” (1941). Later motion pictures included “Going My Way” (1944) with Bing Crosby, and “Beat the Devil” (1953), starring Humphrey Bogart, as well as appearing with the Three Stooges. Gibson returned to Lewiston in 1944 to be the Roundup queen. She spent a number of years in Europe dub-
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bing English voices for French and Italian films. She was the dialogue supervisor for the popular TV sitcom “Family Affair” in 1970-71 and was the unit publicist for John Huston’s Academy Award-winning “Moulin Rouge” (1952). Her last acting role was in the critically acclaimed TV miniseries “The Awak-
ening Land” (1978). Her second husband, Oscar-winner Charles Barton, was a principal director of Abbott and Costello comedies, moving to the Disney Studios to direct “The Shaggy Dog” (1959) and “Toby Tyler” (1960).
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House of RepresentaCity in January 1949, with tives. After one term in a contract that lasted until the House, he moved to 1953. Her studies then took the Senate in 1971, servher to Europe, where she ing six terms and running joined the Hamburg State unopposed five times. Opera Company. She was > Continued from PAGE 8 Following an unsucfeatured in performances cessful bid for the lieuthroughout Europe. Betty Jean Bollinger (1937) tenant governor’s office Bollinger went into Even when she was singing in semi-retirement after Dwight Church in 1982, he served as the Lewiston High School glee legislative liaison for her marriage in January club, Bollinger was special. Gov. John Evans, then 1956 to Jack Nielsen, vice She was the daughter of William president of the European division became Gov. Cecil Andrus’ chief and Ella Bollinger, the builders of staff from 1987 to 1991. of the Shell Oil Company. and proprietors of the Bollinger Mitchell’s planned retirement Her last visit to Lewiston was in Hotel. After graduating in 1937, early 1962, when she gave concerts was short-lived. Andrus appointed she studied music at the Univerhim to the Idaho Transportation at Lewis-Clark Normal School sity of Idaho for a time Board in 1992. He later served (now Lewis-Clark State and then transferred to three years as interim director of College). Sadly, she was the University of Southern the Idaho Department of Coralready suffering from California at Santa Barrection before also serving on terminal throat cancer. bara to work under the the State Board of Education. Michael Mitchell (1943) tutelage of famed German Mitchell jumped back into the soprano Lotte Lehmann. The scion of old Lewpolitical arena in 2002, when After making her iston families, Mitchell the Democratic candidate withprofessional debut at the served in the U. S. Navy drew. His chances seemed slim, Hollywood Bowl in 1944, during World War II and but Mitchell pulled off the upset she came to prominence victory. He was re-elected to his Michael Mitchell spent nearly 40 years in in March 1948 singing in public service in Idaho. final term in office in 2004. Bach’s “St. Matthew PasAfter going into the beer disDwight Church (1943) sion” in Boston under Serge Kous- tributing business, Mitchell sevitzky. She joined the Metropoli- started his political career in 1968, After graduation, Church tan Opera Company in New York joined the U.S. Navy the same when he was elected to the Idaho
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M O N D A Y, A U G U S T 3 1 , 2 0 2 0 year and served aboard the battleship USS California in the Pacific before his discharge in March 1946. That summer, he began playing professional baseball in the Texas-Arizona League with the Globe Miami Browns, a farm team of the St. Louis Browns. In the fall of 1946, he enrolled at old Northern Idaho College of Education (now Lewis-Clark State College) and graduated in 1950. After working in the private sector, Church joined the faculty at Lewiston High School in 1955. During his tenure at LHS, Church coached the Bengals to seven state baseball titles and also served as head football coach in the 1960s. He had begun playing American Legion baseball at the age of 14 and took over coaching duties with the Twins in 1954. He led the Twins to 23 state American Legion titles and six runner-up finishes and amassed a record of 1,763 wins and 659 losses.
Ken Mansfield (1955) During his college days in
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Ken Mansfield with Paul McCartney in 1969.
San Diego, Mansfield sang with a local group and became associated with Capitol Records, rising quickly in
the organization at the time when the Beatles were entering the American market. While at Capitol, in addi-
tion to the Beatles, he was also iston High School, Leroy entered the University of Idaho, responsible for overseeing the recording careers of the Beach serving as student body president as an undergraduate and Boys, Glen Campbell, Bobbie taking his law degree in 1971. Gentry, Lou Rawls, Buck OwHe was elected as Ada ens and the Steve Miller Band. County prosecutor in 1974 and In 1967, Mansfield became served two terms. In 1979, he the U.S. manager of Apple became Idaho attorney genRecords and was one of the eral, the youngest in the United few people in attendance at States. He remained in that ofthe group’s famous rooftop fice until 1983, when he concert on Jan. 30, became Idaho’s lieuten1969, the last time the ant governor, serving Beatles performed until 1987. In the elecin public as a group. tion of 1986, he was the The documentary of Republican candidate the performance, “Let for governor, narrowly It Be,” won an Acadlosing to Cecil Andrus. emy Award in 1970. Leroy was apAfter working for pointed by PresiCBS/Barnaby Records, he started David Leroy dent George H.W. Bush as the first head his own production of the Office of the company and produced the United States Nuclear Waste Outlaws group of Waylon Negotiator in 1990 and served Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi in that capacity until 1993. Colter and Tompall Glaser. An Abraham Lincoln histoMansfield is now an acrian, Leroy has, with his wife tive minister, motivational Nancy, collected many Lincoln speaker and author. artifacts, some of which are David Leroy (1965) on display at the Nez Perce After graduating from LewCounty Historical Museum.
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