Seattle Public Schools Half A Century Ago
Remembering the War
Some of the most significant events of this period were clearly
war-related. The Seattle Public Schools honored the many war-dead
through two public memorials. Cleveland High School students
purchased 131 acres near Issaquah, Cleveland Memorial Forest - a
vital part of the District's Environmental Education Program to
this day.
Cleveland
Memorial Forest. High school boys build trails through the forest
reserve their school just bought as a memorial for world War II.
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The newly erected sports stadium on lower Queen Anne was similarly
dedicated with a wall of names of those Seattle Public School
students who died in World War II and named it Seattle High School
Memorial Stadium. Seven hundred names were eventually inscribed on
a student-designed wall at the East end of the stadium.
Architect's sketch of Seattle Memorial High
School Stadium which honors gold star heroes of World War II,
1946.
Annual Report (021.057)
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