In June 1941 the main Y.H.S. burned to the ground.

A new school is begun.

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 [...]

News Of the Week
Nisqually Valley News
January 7, 1943
On Tuesday 14 pupils were absent from the McKenna school due to illness, mostly due to mumps, with few cases of measles.

Nisqually Valley News
October 15, 1942
Yelm officially visited the new Yelm High School Tuesday evening, inspecting the sixteen neat compact rooms which compose the building.  Visitors were welcomed to the class rooms before and after the dedication ceremonies, which took place in the upstairs assembly room.
Superintendent O. L. Montgomery acted as a mast [...]

Introduction:  Life at YHS According to the Yelm Tornado Annual
Principal Frank Bower (photo)

 
Coach Frank Bower (photo)
 
 
Senior Class (1 – photo)

 
Senior Class (2 – photo)
 

Future Farmers of America (photo)
 
 Football (photo)
  
Sophomores (photo)
 
 
 
Juniors (photo)
 
 
School Board (photo)
 
 
YHS Staff (photo)
 
 
Superintendent Montgomery (photo)
 
 
Student Body officers (photo)
  
Yelm Grade School (photo – Courtesy of Floyd Cummings)
 
 
 
 

A Glimpse of YHS in 1944
 Introduction:  War on a lighter note and a more serious one.
            Students Represent the US and Germany in the War (note the
                        “Seig Heiling” woman’s finger mustache)
 
 

Memorial Page

Introduction:  The following account was writetn for the 50th anniversary of their graduation
50 Years Later
Forty-four first graders entered the Yelm Grade School in 1931, and at least ten of those original 44 pioneers persevered through all of the 12 grades in Yelm. The persistant ones were Arvilla Brown, Lois Brown, Louis Brunetti, Marian Echtle, Dick [...]

Introduction:  The following are selections from the 1942 annual.

Introduction: Yelm High School scenes from the last year before World War II.
High School and Gym

 
The Yelm High School Gym

 
Football Scenes

 
 
Girls’ League

 
Patterson’s Drugstore

 
Prank Photo:  Easy Way Out

Introduction:  The following scenes describe part of high school life in 1939-49 at Yelm High School.
Yelm Seniors (Arn-Dic)

Yelm Seniors (Ech-Hin)

Optimism

Sadie Hawkins Swing

The School Board

Smoker

Caretakers and Bus Drivers

Decorations in the Gym

Honey Chile (Characters from the Yelm Musical)

The [...]