EVERETT — A celebration marking the 100th year since the opening of Everett High School’s stately main building is expected to draw a big crowd of alumni, former teachers and families today.
The three-story white brick building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, opened to students on Jan. 31, 1910, looking largely similar from the outside to how it does today.
Hundreds of the school’s graduates from several decades are expected to pay a visit to their old academic haunts from 1 to 4 p.m. today.
Each decade of Everett High’s history will be represented in a different classroom with yearbooks, the best examples of clothing styles from that era, newspaper articles of that time, photos, archives, music and conversation.
There also will be a historical slide show at 2 p.m. in the Civic Auditorium across Colby Avenue from the main building.
In many respects, it will be an all-school reunion, organizers said.
“There seems to be a great deal of community interest,” said Larry O’Donnell, a 1955 Everett graduate.
Prizes will be awarded for most alumni from a family, oldest alumni and most alumni from a decade.
“We expect quite a large crowd,” said Catherine Matthews, Everett High School principal. “We have had lots of responses.”
Some alumni groups sent school memorabilia to display.
The main building, also known as the A building, is part of a much larger campus than when the school first opened in 1910. It includes seven buildings spread over more than four city blocks.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com.
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