Malik Jacob, a BizTech freshman, and Justine Swan, a junior at Renaissance Arts, joke around during a field day during the last day at Marshall Campus.A week has passed since Marshall High campus closed its doors for good.
We put together a big collection of material on Marshall that’s worth checking out. There’s portraits of students in the three academies, Pauling, BizTech and Renaissance Arts, a history and a series of ”lasts.”
Since then, I’ve been looking back at the school’s year to
There’s a quick entry, titled “Goodbye Marshal High School,” by 1973 graduate and blogger Auntie Kimmers. In it she writes about the changes to the school since then: “… it did not look any smaller to me than it did in 1973. But it looked shabby . . . run down, broken and very sad.” Her comments mirror what I’ve often heard from many pre-1980 graduates who remembered the school when it was in its prime.
While other news agencies (I’m looking at you, television) came to school to do their afternoon report, it’s worth checking out the coverage by East Portland reporter, David F. Ashton, who’s been covering the closure since the board made its decision last fall. Doors closing, Marshall High’s ‘last hurrah.’
Also at that June 4 tribute, a handful of yearbooks and bound copies of the newspaper, The Verdict, went missing. The copies were one-of-a-kind relics of the school’s history, and library assistant Jenifer Mittelstadt is not too happy. Last time I spoke with her, she’s missing copies of yearbooks from ’78, ’84 and ’98 along with bound volumes of the newspaper from 67-68 and 68-69. If it’s possible that you grabbed a copy thinking they were giveaways, please shoot her an email at . I’m sure she won’t press charges.
A handful of students at Renaissance Arts Academy try their hand at storytelling during a work with The Moth. Going back a few months, I saw that The Moth, a storytelling radio show, spent some time on the Marshall Campus. The worked with students to tell true stories about change and challenges.
Here’s some of their work.
It’s projects like these that really made the schools special to the students. In this case, the amazingly creative kids at Renaissance Arts Academy told their stories in an honest way that you would be hard-pressed to see in a big school.
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