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History of PHS
Senior Class Gifts
History of the Building | The River Wall | Senior Class Gifts
Our Mascot: The Impala | Fight Song
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When you reach the point in your life when you are ready
to leave high school it is only appropriate that you leave
a lasting mark on the school. Here at Poudre High School it
is a tradition that has been going for over many years. Every
year the fleeing senior class chooses a gift to leave
for the school to remember them by, whether it be a painting,
sculpture or other creative piece.
Click on a year
to see and read about the Senior Class Gift
for that year.
We are in the process of researching
the other years. If you
have any information about these years,
please contact us
by e-mailing us at rlang@psdschools.org.
The Senior Class Council began planning their gift to Poudre in the fall of 2002! Meetings were held bi-monthly on Tuesdays. The council met with Ms. Lundt, the principal, to gather information about possible ideas for the 2003 gift and to learn of gifts presented in the past. There was also a meeting held held with the Senior Class Council od 2002. The class of 2002 presented a sculpted impala for the courtyard and envisioned future classes continuing to add improvements to the courtyard.
Through fund-raising efforts and generous donations of several people, the Class of 2003 presented stone tables and benches for the courtyard! There is a bronze inlay in the middle of the tables with the 2003 class motto: "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
Senior Jacob Pierson's father, Lindsay Pierson, was very generous in his donation of three round concrete slabs for the foundation of the tables and benches. Mr. Pierson donated materials and labor for the project. One Saturday students and crew cut sod and prepared the ground for the concrete. T-shirts for the event were donated by Katie Troxell's parents and were printed with: "I Moved the Mud." The following Saturday students helped the crew pour the slabs. The stone furniture was purchased from Carlos Amato, Denver, with a considerable discount.
Dedication of the 2003 Senior Class Gift was held Tuesday, May 20, 2003 in the courtyard at Poudre High School.
Senior Class Council members included: Katie Troxell, Heather Johnson, and Morgan Taylor. Faculty Advisors included: Shawn Nidezu, Mike Zenther, Rich Hayek, and Marcie Lewis.
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This year's Senior Class Gift was the fountain and pond installed in the courtyard in the middle of the school.
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This year's Senior Class Gift was a clock in the front hall. Below the clock are the metal letters PHS with the names of the students who graduated this year.
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This year's Senior Class Gift was a stained glass piece of an impala above the main entrance.
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This year's Senior Class Gift was a stepping stone in the front of the school. The quote by Henry Ford reads: "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
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This year's Senior Class Gift was what we call the River Wall. Learn more about this unique project.
The quote, "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it," from the book by Norman Maclean, was chosen to accompany the sculpture because of the symbolic reference to our namesake river and its meaningful significance to education as an ever flowing pathway of change and lifelong learning. For just as the river and seasons change, so does the pathway of lifelong learning. The bronze quote was a gift from the graduation class of 1994.