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First graduating class of Hillsboro High School

Black and white image of a group of students with their teacher. Ten girls all wear long-sleeved white dresses with high necks and gathered waists. The boys wear suits, and all the students have long ribbons attached below their left shoulders. The teacher sits at the end of the first row and also wears a suit. Heaped in front of the students on a white fur are two baskets full of flowers and a number of scrolls. B. W. Barnes introduced high school in 1904 in Hillsboro, adding a ninth grade to the curriculum, and one year each year thereafter until the full four year course was added. If, as stated on the back, this is the first class to graduate, these students have just finished the equivalent of their sophomore year of high school and most are about 16 years old.

[back] [pen] Willamina Atkinson, Grace Connell, Francis Robinson, Cecelia Greer, Willabelle Moore, Victor Buris, Ruth Starr. 2 row - John Connell, Nellie Johnston, Grace Dykeman, Earl Hobbs, Edna Freeman, Grace Ballard, Prof. B. W. Barnes. First High School Grad. Class - 1906

6/11/1906

Students

High school graduates

High school principals

Education, Secondary

Atkinson, Willamina

Connell, Grace, b. 1885

Connell, John Wesley

Barnes, B. W.

Robinson, Francis

Greer, Cecelia

Moore, Willabelle

Burris, Victor

Starr, Ruth

Johnston, Nellie

Dykeman, Grace

Hobbs, Earl

Freeman, Edna

Ballard, Grace

Education History

Hillsboro, Oregon

gelatin silver prints

English

WCMpic_015622

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Still Image