The Pasco High School Alumni has this unmonitored forum as a way to send and receive e-mail among its members. If you attended high school in Pasco, Washington, please join. If a member of this group sends an e-mail to PascoHSAlumni@yahoogroups.com the e-mail will be sent out to all members and will also be archived here. This forum was started September 27, 2003.

To send and receive messages to Pasco High School alumni from any year - please join this free group.

The forum 'owner' has to approve anyone who joins. She (Sandra Green Reuther '63) can send you an invitation or you can just try and join on your own. If you become a Yahoo member you should check your membership options. You may want to turn all the Marketing Options off so you won't get extra e-mails, etc. You have an option to have an e-mail sent to you containing each posting as it comes in; a daily summary of postings e-mailed to you; or no e-mails and then you have to read the web page to see any postings. Anyone can read the archived messages. E-mails can be sent to your regular e-mail address if you don't have Yahoo mail.

A bit of PHS history from Michelle Nisbett:

In 1891 - The entire Pasco School District consisted of 43 students and teachers.

In 1894, near the corner of 4th Ave and Lewis St. was the first school in Pasco. Grade school students were taught in the first floor and high school classes were taught on the second floor. This was a great advancement for Pasco, high school was not legally part of the state education system until 1898.

1909 - West Side School, which was later named Longfellow was built as a combination grade school/high school.

1910 - The district grew from 45 students in 1890 to 475 in 1910

1911 - Pasco constructed Pasco East Side School, which was renamed Whittier School.

The first senior class was in 1911 with five graduates; the class size reached 24 by 1924.