WAHIAN

Washburn High School opened in 1925 with 1,031 students in grades 7th through 10th. The first graduations were held in January and June of 1928. That school year after careful consideration of all of the 600 names that were suggested for the first Washburn yearbook, or "annual" as it was called then, the Student Council, Mr. MacQuarrie, and the Annual Board decided upon "The Wahian," a title presented by Virginia Miller, made from of the first two letters of Washburn High Annual. Sincere effort was made to put out a book well worthy of representing the first years of the history of Washburn. The theme of the book was "building for the future." Washburn Day was chosen as the day when "The Wahian" should be issued, the January graduates planning to return to receive their Wahians and to participate in the festivities of the day.