Throughout our lives, no matter which campus attended, we share a bond through our Alma Mater Las Vegas High School
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The original Las Vegas High School, located at 315 S. 7th Street, was built in the art deco style, and opened in 1930. Although LVHS was not the first high school built in the city (the first one on 4th Street became part of the elementary school and later burned down), it is the oldest one still standing. It is now the Las Vegas Academy and has been classified as a protected historic building. LVHS was built on property previously owned by the Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad deeded it to the city for use as a public school. This website is for the alumni of our historic school the alumni at the East Sahara campus as well as the current alumni of the original school site now known as the Las Vegas Academy. Las Vegas High School has spawned a wealth of social and political leaders for over seven decades.
George Wilkinson, Class of '53, has put
together a historical documentary covering the late 40s through the late
50s. He started this project by requesting via email information from LVHS
Alumni (classes '47-58) that focused on their memories of growing up in Las
Vegas, LVHS and the Wildcat Lair. It should be of interest to many of our
members and guests. Here are two great files submitted by Patty
Haack (1956) History of Las Vegas High School Chronology of Las Vegas High School We would like to ask for the help of the alumni
in finding something. If anyone has any info as to their whereabouts it would be greatly appreciated. In this photo are Coach
Warren Okelberry (R.I.P. LVHS Coach & Teacher for 30 years-1961-1991) and Richard Bryan
(Class of 1955). (click
photo to enlarge) (see the reunion picture pages for pictures of the presentation of the pen used to sign this document, to Bryan by Coach Okelberry) *************************** (pictures and school history cut lines copied from Woody Woodward's LVHS-alumni.com) History is one focus of this association. Some pictures from the history of Las Vegas High School. The alumni is asked that they submit pictures of any historical value for inclusion on this page.
Please feel free to submit digital pictures to the webmaster If you have hard copy pictures that need to be scanned we can do that too. We will return the originals to you, if desired. Listed below the history pictures are pictures submitted by alumni...enjoy!! Click on thumbnails for full size viewing Las Vegas High School
Thanks goes out to George Apfel (AKA George Thomas of local radio fame), LVHS class of '71, for scanning them. He even captioned a couple of them while he was a student and member of the "Desert Breeze" staff. A
majority of the photos came from
the collection at UNLV.
SUBMITTED PHOTOS Submitted by Phyllis Nickel Hoggatt via Patty Haack
May 1941, class years where
available
Here is some memorabilia from earlier years.(click photos to enlarge) *** Our Proclamation!!!! *** We built a Wildcat float for the Helldorado
Parade 2009. Our volunteer constructors spanned from the classes of 1954 to 2009. ***
The old Las Vegas High School Library is now
(See Judge George's biography under Notable
Alumni) *** The Las Vegas High School Centennial
Room/Senior Squares Memorial
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