LUHS Homecoming

Sept. 22 was Homecoming at Lamoille Union High School. There were the usual home soccer games – boys and girls, varsity and junior varsity, against Peoples Academy. Laura played in the girls varsity game, which, alas, Peoples won. But the interesting part of the day for me was a small ceremony celebrating the fact that it was 40 years ago this fall when LUHS opened. In the fall of 1967, when Lamoille opened its doors for the first time, Bill went there as a senior and I went there as a 7th grader. Bill was in the first class to graduate from Lamoille, and I was in the first class to go all the way through, all six years.

Dr. Roger Mann and Clark Dodge, Sr. both spoke at the ceremony yesterday. Both were on the school boards that formed LUHS. They talked about the decisions that were made at that time – whether or not to combine the existing town high schools in Cambridge, Johnson and Hyde Park into a new union school, and where to site the new school. Then Bill Baker spoke. He has been a math teacher at LUHS almost since its inception. He talked about various events in the life of the school since 1967, and I was delighted that he mentioned the rifle team in the 1970s. Mr. Baker and Mr. Leonard Reed (also a math teacher, no longer at Lamoille) were the faculty advisers. We practiced at the Morrisville Armory. I helped organize the rifle team in my junior year. I think it lasted maybe a year after I graduated in 1973.

Interesting trivia: Clark Dodge, Sr. has a granddaughter (Megan Dodge) who is at Colby College with Brian and Dr. Mann has a granddaugher (Alison Wells) who is at Middlebury College with Emily.