The following article appeared in the Missoulian Centennial issue on page 34 of Section E. The Garden City has a right to be proud of its educational facilities, which have expanded tremendously in the last 20 years. School District 1 added 92 classrooms and seven gymnasiums during the period Read More
New County High School Plant Occupied in 1957 A modern stream-lined school broke the skyline in 1956 which serves as the education laboratory for some 2,000 Missoula County High School students. Throughout the years, increased enrollments surged ahead of community efforts to provide adequate facilities for high school students. But Read More
Herb Carson – founder of CSD program at the University of Montana / WWII Vet Written by Jim Black, an MCHS senior, the story below is taken from the 1953 issue of The Kopee, which was a student magazine sponsored by Missoula County High School. This little magazine was given to Read More
Missoula Public Schools – 1891 Report of the Superintndent for the Month of October. High School – Bettie Reiley, teacher; enrollment 57; average attendance, 52; minutes of tardiness, 131. Pupil neither absent nor tardy: Willie Edwards, John Mason, John Belle, Lily Booth, Elsie Reinhard, Clifford Rittenour, Lynn Read More
The article below is from the Providence Health & Services website. School of Nursing, 1910-1978 History 1910-1939 1940-1959 1960-1978 History The Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Charity of Providence was a teaching and nursing order from Montreal, Canada. In Read More
Werner Held, teacher and thinker, was ‘fully engaged in life’ The article below appeared in The Missoulian on November 26, 2004. November 26, 2004 12:00 am • MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian Never mind that he wasn’t a boat builder. Never mind that he wasn’t Read More
Coach Guy Stegner The following article appeared in the Spokesman-Review on June 1, 1951. Missoula High’s Guy Stegner Bows Out as State’s Top Coach By John A. Linn Missoula. June 1 – Something will be missing from the Montana interscholastic track and field meet next spring. That something will Read More
The two articles below are taken from the text, “From Wilderness to Statehood – A History of Montana – 1805 – 1900,” by James McClellan Hamilton, published in 1957. The forward in the text was written by A. L. Strand, President of Oregon State College in Corvallis, Or., and the Read More
Missoulian Diamond Jubilee Special Section – August 18, 1940 High School History Full Of Progress by Don E. Mittelstaedt. Probably the thing that most consistently marks Missoula County high school from other schools is the fact that, growing rapidly, it has always been squeezed for room. Even Read More
Missoulian Diamond Jubilee Special Section – August 18, 1940 Great Growth Is Shown By City’s Grade Schools ———- By Sylvia M. Haight From the small school conducted in one room of a building standing at the corner of Higgins and Front streets, and taught by Mrs. W. H. H. Read More