It’s Wasatch High School homecoming week! We are lucky to belong to a school with a rich legacy that started in 1908. Our forefathers could see the value of a high school education as communities progressed in Utah and in the United States. The first Wasatch High School opened on Main Street on the second floor of the Mercantile. This site has been restored and looks today almost like it looked then. Plans were soon made to build a school and in 1912 the school district celebrated the opening of its first high school building. That year, the students wrote the following in their first year book:
“Deep in the little valley of the Provo, safely guarded on all sides by these mighty sentinels, with God’s blue sky above us, we have planted our school; our home for the years to come.”
On hundred and eleven years later, Wasatch is still ambitiously working towards the same goals of our founders. May we we heed their advice as we build our legacy for generations to come:
Behind lies the valley of memories–of the struggle for existence and maintenance. Before our “tomorrow” begins to dawn upon us. What is yet to be done in the many hours before sunset? The voice of the past cries out to us “there is much for us to do.” Climb the majestic peaks, and when these are mounted Wasatch is proud of you. – Wasatch High Principal Tod Johnson
