Anaheim High celebrates 125 years of educating local students this year.
At a campus celebration, alumni, students and community members enjoyed school performances, sang the alma mater, saw a new school logo unveiled and showed their spirit for the oldest of Anaheim Union High School District’s nine campuses and the third oldest high school in Orange County.
People checked out the contents of a 1998 time capsule and other memorabilia from throughout the years. Alumni reminisced and toured the campus.
The community raised $12,500 through a bond measure to purchase the land and construct the original high school building. At the 125th anniversary celebration, Rep. Lou Correa, D-Anaheim, announced $2 million in federal funding had been secured to help restore its William Cook Auditorium.
“This project is personal to me,” Correa said. “As a former student of Anaheim High School, I know first-hand the high-quality education our students can receive — and the opportunities they can be given with the right support from their educators and their government.
“To know that, with this funding, we are going to restore such a jewel of our community — the Cook Auditorium — and uplift thousands of students with interest in the arts makes me more proud than I could ever express.”
The 1,280-thousand-seat auditorium dates back to 1935.
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