After 103 years they have closed Granite High School. I have mixed emotions about this. Many members of my family are Granitians. It was the 2nd High School in the Salt Lake Valley.I went to a Good Bye Open House last Friday to have a last look around the school. Not that I have been back since I graduated 31 years ago. Not much had changed. They had bricked up the opening over the entrance in the "S" building. I don't know why. Sometimes when you walked into the "S" building you would get hit by a paper ball or something, but nothing bad. It also let light into the upstairs hall. It was really hot. I remembered the hot days in the fall and spring. It was an old school, there was no air-conditioning and it was ok.
I have many memories because I lived so close to the school. There was open plunge on hot summer days, football games on autumn evenings. My friends and I would ride our bikes around the school and have water fights at the outdoor drinking fountain donated by the class of 1970. It was just a hole in the ground by the time I graduated in 1978. It is no longer there.
When I finally attended Granite High, every morning I was out the front door, down the street, throught the alley, across the student parking lot, down the stairs through the tunnel, up and outside to the "S" building. I had arrived at school and I loved it.
It is always sad to have things in your life leave but I will always have the memories just like The Song of the "G" states!
SONG OF THE "G"
When sight and sound of the campus
Fade in the long, busy years,
Yet will return in our memories,
Echoes of old Songs and Cheers...
You, of the field, track and diamond,
Fighters for clean victory,
You who love the fair, square sport,
You'll hear the song of the "G"!
Fo it Granite! Go it Granite!
Hear the battle cry;
Go it Granite! Go it Granite!
Yours 'til we die...
She will remember,
You'll not forget her,
Though you are far away
She is calling, calling to you ever,
Honor the Grand old "G"!
Sallie in the boys gym in the "A" building
Sallie and Dallas by the seal in the main entrance of the "S" building
Sallie in Sardine Hall of the "S" Building.
Dallas pointing at his Senior year locker #12.
