They must be setting on the stack of "cord" wood for the furnace. I remember even in the late 1940's the year or so my grandfather was the custodian at Pine Grove him stoking that big old furnace with the wood that was cut off with the bark around the wood they were going to mill. Winter time found him just about living in that furnace room to keep that school heated up enough for classes.

Love to "interloper's on the left side of the photo. Good image of the various attire worn to school, from the tie to the good old bib overalls.

Charlott on 12th August 2016 @ 7:08am

Appears to be the same 4' cord wood used in many school furnaces. In a school I attended we could help the janitor wheel a cart of it down a ramp into the basement furnace room but were not allowed near the firebox. When school started in the fall there was enough wood outside for the entire school year.

Kenn on 12th August 2016 @ 12:05pm

I wanted to share this if anyone knows about or seen one but my grandfather Alfie M. 81 was raised in the valley and his parents as well. Yesterday he passed down something quite special i cant figure out how to upload but its a buckle ODELL with a cougar brass. With mcCean stamped on back. He said that it was a highschool buckle! I went to midvalley aswell. Sure love and appreciate my roots in this valley with all the new "locals"

Trenton on 7th May 2018 @ 10:40pm

According to the Hood River Glacier, (May 26, 1921) the school was designed by Vancouver, WA architect Dennis Nichols.

michael Houser on 18th September 2021 @ 6:06pm