This page from the 1935 Menasha High yearbook, The Nicolet, where its editors pleaded for a new and improved school building, was surprisingly prophetic. As most of us know, the school burned the very next year in March of 1936. The fire’s exact origin is unknown, but it was thought to have started in the machine shop. To keep the school going, classes were distributed among the remaining schools and other public buildings until the new high school could be completed in 1938. Despite the tone inferred from the yearbook, plans were already in motion to design and build a new school at the time of the fire, though funding had not yet been finalized. Still, this added footnote by the yearbook gives the event an eerie circumstance the school did not deserve.
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