Jessica: How long was your school year? I know that it’s 180 now, but there must have been more time off?
Dillard: We started right after Labor Day and we always got out the last of May. Usually around May 29. Yeah, because I don’t think we had any spring vacation. But, yeah, we always got [...]
The Nisqually Valley News
Thursday November 18, 1971
The Yelm School Board played before a packed house last Thursday when they held their
regular meeting.. .Several change orders were discussed by the board… The dress code
change, formulated by the students, was on the agenda with the full house yelling for
change. The three board members John Cullens, Harold [...]
Nisqually Valley News
Born in Pendleton, Oregon the land of the Indians, horses, and festive annual round-ups, Crawford E. Williams of the Puget Sound Power and Light Co., still must confess to an inability to “sit” a horse in true western style.
“I was only a spectator at the round-ups, not a participant,” he modestly answered [...]
To the State Board of Education
September 1, 1948
PROPOSAL TO FORM A NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THURSTON COUNTY COMPRISING A PART OF THE TERRITORY OF THE YELM SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 400
By action of the Board at its meeting on July 27, 1948, this proposal is scheduled for a hearing before the Board in conformity with the [...]
Introduction: YHS annuals provide a visual view of Yelm in the sixties. Excuse the quality of the photos.
1966 Marching past NVN office
Introduction: The material in this section is taken directly from the school board minutes of the decade. The minutes themselves are a sampling of the official record kept during that time. The selections have been chosen in an attempt to provide the reader with a sense of some of the problems confronting the district and [...]
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By Alex Carter
Harry August Southworth was a major Yelm community leader and World War Two veteran. He attended college at Pacific Lutheran University and South Puget Sound University. Before settling in Yelm though, Harry was a teacher for the Collins School in Evergreen Valley and in close relation to his mother’s Freedom Homemaker’s [...]
Teachers Ask Code Revision
Daily Olympian 11-7-50
Washington – The teaching profession’s 21-year-old code of ethics-straitlaced and stern-is being revised.
The National Education Association said today a survey indicates that most educators, for example, want omitted from the code as unimportant such listings of “unethical” conduct as:
1. “To be careless of one’s personal appearance.”
2. “To engage in [...]
