Hillview Elementary School
The first school I attended was Hillview Elementary on 4500 South and about 10th East. It is no longer there.
I found this photo on Google Maps. It comes from 2007. The Millcreek Activity Center is now located on this property. The school is no longer there.
Cottonwood Elementary School
The second school I attended was Cottonwood Elementary. It is still in the same place and hasn’t undergone any major renovations.
The new Olympus Junior High School
The next school I attended was Olympus Junior High School. It was located on the Murray-Holladay road (we referred to it as 4800 south) in Holladay. It is still there, but it is completely rebuilt. I can’t find a photo of the original Olympus Junior High School.
Granite Park Junior High School
While Bonneville Junior was being built, I attended a split session school at Granite Park Junior High School. As I recall I switched to Bonneville Junior at the beginning of January.
The interesting this about this is that Kathie attended here as well, about five years after I left. She was in 4th grade when I was here in the 9th grade. When you’re young, age makes a big difference.
Bonneville Junior High School.
The next school I attended was Bonneville Junior High School. It was completed sufficiently until the middle of my 9th grade year, so I attended split session a Granite Park Junior High School for about 3 months. We moved to Parkview during my 9th grade year, but since my parents didn’t want me to switch to yet another school, they arranged to get me to Bonneville Junior High School. SInce they didn’t want to have to run me clear out there, they found one of my teachers who was living on 3900 South just east of Highland Drive. My dad would drop me off at the teacher’s home and I would ride with her to school. I don’t recall how I got home.
Skyline High School
I finished up at Skyline High School (it is being demolished this year – 2024), but I took a photo of it before the reconstruction. This building had issues from the very start. I was the third class to graduate from the new building. When I attended there, they had garbage cans in the halls to catch the water that would leak through the roof. As far as I know, they never got this problem solved. My parents said it was because it was built by a California contractor that didn’t know how to build in Utah. I don’t know whether that was true or not.
Mines Building
When I first started attending the University of Utah, my major was Metallurgical Engineering. That was housed in the Browning Mines Building. It was from this college that Claron Twitchell and I were elected to the Student Assembly. Those were interesting years in the middle of the Viet Nam war era.
My scholarship was a D.C. Jacking Metallurgical Engineering scholarship. I dropped this when I switch to Computer Science as my major.
University of Utah Merrill Engineering Building
After graduating from High School I attended the University of Utah for one year. I had a DC Jackling scholarshiop for Metallurgical Engineering. When I came back from my mission I changed to Computer Science after taking my first organic chemistry class, which I hated.
This was where I spent most of my time as a Computer Science student. This building is still on the University of Utah campus.