Pleasant Hill High School

Pleasant Hill High School in 1910
with its second teacher, Earl Kilpatrick

The high school was then located a mile west in one room of the Pleasant Hill Grade school that was torn down in 1977 (see below). The first teacher was Mrs. Corum in 1909, and the first graduates were Hattie Van Vliet and Dougal Wiley Rankin, who graduated under Earl Kilpatrick in 1910. The next year, a new school building was begun. The current junior high is the later high school building than this one you can see the wing added in the late 1950s when the dams in the area were built and population increase. The current high school was built in 1961.

In the field of sports, Pleasant Hill has always been a leader. In the early days of the school history, the main sport was baseball; and in 1910, the team, coached by Mr. Kilpatrick, was undefeated. The Hillbillies won over the University of Oregon second team asa well as Springfield and Eugene High Schools and other Lane County teams. Pleasant Hill has ever since been a champion among the schools in all sports and activities.

The first annual was printed in 1926, under the editorship of Berry Mauney.

 

from the 1943 spiral-bound Hepta annual.

 

This is how the Elementary School looked in 1977. Notice the two wings added onto both ends. It was torn down in 1977 to make way for the "new" gym. Later, in 2000, the rest of the "new" elementary school was torn to build the newest elementary school.

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