THIS IS THE GRATUATING CLASS OF A HUNDRED YEARS AGO-NEPHI HIGH SCHOOL

We are uncertain of the exact year this was, but as my mother was the Class of 28, I know it was close to that year, but could have been a couple years before, or even the Class of 29. Perhaps the reader or future discoveries on my part will find out. We do know that the original Nephi High was on Track Street at a block and half East where the Nephi Town Square Park is now located. That building was built prior to 1900, as was a school known as the North School was near the Nephi Pioneer Park, and the South School was near First East and 5th South. The one on Track Street became know as the Central School, but the local School Board was forced to make the top floor of that grade school the "First" rural High School in Utah, and being the Third High School in the State. Now adays, school officials don't feel the pressure from the public as much as they did in by gone days. When scores of students and their parents demanded education beyond the compulsory 7th grade, it was made into a High School. As more students and families moved to Nephi and to all of East Juab County, a new building was completed on Main Street and the named was changed to Juab High School, and two buses were used to bring kids in from Doc Steel's home on the North, and from Mills and Levan on the South. Later, school officials demanded a bigger school and so was one built Eastward and 7th North. On that issue, School officials and politicians didn't take heed to the citizens or the fact that the old Juab High was fit as a fiddle, and my father was taught his masonry skills from the builder who "guaranteed this building will last a hundred years", and it did, as it is now known as the "County Complex", and many of us now recognize how wrong or "complex" some of the unknowns have their way above the folks hat voted them in. Anywho, these are the graduates, and grandchildren of the graduates may, just may... recognize a few folks in their younger days. I for one, recognized Principle George A. Sperry, as his sisters and brothers lived across the street from me, and George was the guy you had to prove your worth to get a Merit Badge for "Home Repairs", which may no longer be on the list to earn an Eagle Scout anymore.