Eighth Grade Class

ID: 4844 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Eastern Washington University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections ~ Creator: Photographer unknown ~ Date: 1907
This file appears in: The Training School

This photo depicts an eighth grade Training School class from 1907. They appear to be students of the “exemplary and delightful” variety rather than troublemakers.

This file appears in: The Training School

By Jonathan Succo
On March 22, 1890, the legislature of the newly minted Washington State granted Cheney the state’s first Normal School. Normal School was the designation used for a school or college whose purpose was the training of teachers. Cheney’s Normal School…