441 20th Street, Ogden
Dee School
View of the front of Dee School in Ogden, Utah (left, facing south) and west side (right).
1904
In ____, during a school board meeting, the new school on 20th and Washington was named Dee School, in honor of Thomas D. Dee. Dee was the school board president, and the day the school was named, he was absent. The newspaper says "The ___ took advantage of the ---- to vote on naming the school."
The school was built in just ___ months.
Architect: J. A. Smith
Contractor: C. J. Humphries
Heating & Ventilating: W. E. Newman
View of the front of Dee School in Ogden, Utah (left, facing south) and west side (right).
1970
The Dee School served students in nine grades, primary through eighth. In 1904, the school district was just introducing physical education. An article in The Ogden Standard, 14 May 1970, stated the spring festival program would signal both the end of the school year and of the old Dee Elementary School and again, nodded to the pride of the school curriculum for the past 62 years.
Architect's rendering of the "new" Elim Lutheran Church, provided by Louise Cole.
Students at Dee School participate in the May Pole Dance at the spring festival, 1970.
""The colorful program will complete a long history of educational experiences enjoyed by countless children who have attended the Dee school."
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