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Date:
1937
Location:
Fitchburg, MA
Description
The first Fitchburg High School building was built in the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1830. A new building was erected in 1869. In 1895, a still larger Fitchburg High School was built.
Wallace Way, the stairs leading up the school, was presented to the city by Hon. Rodney Wallace. (Wallace also donated the Wallace Library and Art building, as well as the Ingalls Memorial Library to the town of Rindge, NH, and the Wallace House at Smith College.)
In 1937, a new Fitchburg High School was built on the same site, Academy Street, at the top of the Wallace Way steps. This new school building was considered significant enough to merit write-ups in national magazines.
In the late 1990s, Fitchburg finally outgrew the building on Academy Street. They invested 38 million dollars in a new 235,000 square foot high school on Ashby State Road. It opened in the fall of 2000.
The older high school became Academy Middle School. The old middle school located next to it, B.F. Brown, seems to have become some sort of magnet school (is this right?).
The FHS football rivalry with Leominster High School — embodied by the annual Thanksgiving "Turkey Bowl" — is one of the oldest in the country. In 2008 they met for the 103rd Thanksgiving and the 125th time overall.
See the Fitchburg High Alumni Association website.
FHS Holdings at the Fitchburg Historical Society
Here are a few of the holdings related to the high school at the historical society:
1897 Yearbook
1999 plan for new high school
Box of negatives from 1900-1950
1937 Pamphlet about new high school
FHS Graduates
Here are some of the graduates of FHS.
1942
Edward B. Whitten
1943
Dorothy (Whitten) Johnson
1937
Joyce (Whitten) Kansanniva
1939
Beatrice (Whitten) Laserte
1987
Ted Whitten
Chris Cucciara
Sue (Thomas) Cucciara
1989
Class of 1989 note: 20 year reunion on Friday, November 27, 2009. Please e-mail tamra.bates (--at--) gmail.com right away.
Fe Fandreyer
Derek King
Chris Whitten
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