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La Conner Elementary School was new when Dave Alvord, Barbara Sanford, Nancy Van Wieringen, and John Summers were students there. Sanford entered the first grade in 1936, the year the school was built and the others followed in 1942. The “new” school’s technological innovations at the time included sliding blackboards with storage closets behind them. Old La Conner Elementary is slated for demolition to make room for a new middle school to be built in a style that honors the original building. – Photo by Don Coyote
Sixty years after graduation from La Conner High School, members of the Class of 1954 are still doing their homework.
And the topic of interest is history.
Specifically, local history.
That’s because these La Conner alums were born the same year — 1936 — that the recently vacated La Conner Elementary School building was constructed, a project made possible in great measure by the Works Progress Administration. The WPA was the largest and most ambitious of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agencies.
It’s often been said in the eight decades since the Great Depression that a...
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