New monument built at SHS
Written by Cyrena Sandoval, Former Student on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Under the big tree at Snohomish High School is the construction of a monument.
The monument is significant because it has two pieces of the old courthouse incorporated in the design. The court house was demolished in 1938, standing where A building is now. One piece in the monument is a cornerstone from the courthouse and the other is the old bell. The cornerstone used to stand in the corner of the old Performing Arts Center before it was redone. When construction was started on building the original high school there was only one wall of the jail house left.
The monument should be completed in no more than a couple of weeks. When it is finished, the font saying “Snohomish High School” will be the same as the lettering on the buildings. The bricks making up the cornerstone were taken from the old B building that was knocked down last year.
“[The] cornerstone and the bell mark the beginning of the school,” said Gordon Brockman, the vice principal at Snohomish High School.
When students walk by the monument, Brockman hopes that they will see the significance in having the cornerstone there. The school has a motto that goes: “Honor the past, build for the future”. Students will be allowed to sit on the monument. Therefore, the monument itself may become a gathering spot for students in the morning and afternoon.
