PHOTOS FROM THE PAST

 

Wasatch Competes With North Sanpete at Basketball (unknown year)

F.C. Jensen Home ~ Heritage Lives On At Wasatch ~ taken from June 1977 Wasatch Newsletter

Remember When?

Xerxes Battle 

Mt. Pleasant Pyramid, 1948-10-01, Rams Meet Tigers Wednesday at W. A.

Who the ..... was Xerxes?

Who the ..... was Xerxes?

Xerxes I (/ˈzɜːrksiːz/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 x-š-y-a-r-š-a ( Khashayarsha (help·info)) "ruling over heroes",[2] Greek Ξέρξης[ksérksɛːs]; 518–465 BC), called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard.

Xerxes I is most likely the Persian king identified as Ahasuerus (Hebrewאֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ Hebrew pronunciation: [ˀaxaʃveroʃ]) in the biblical Book of Esther.[3][4][5] He is also notable in Western history for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC. Like his predecessor Darius I, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex, although Xerxes I would briefly manage to conquer even more land of mainland Greece than Darius I through the battles at Thermopylae and Artemisium, overrunning Attica, Boeotia, Euboea, Thessaly,[6] and the rest of mainland Greece to the north of the Isthmus of Corinth,[7] until the losses at Salamis and Plataea which reversed these gains and would eventually end the second invasion decisively.

Wasatch Victory

Mt. Pleasant Pyramid, 1948-10-15, Local News

Last of THE MOUNT PLEASANT PRESS

Christmas Shopping With Hilda ~ From Hilda's Scrapbook

Awake I have worried, fussed, fumed and planned.

Asleep, I have sought over sea and  land.

Wherever I went, when I told them the price,

Clerks would smile, show sympathy and try to be nice.

I have been at the Wasatch, The Progress, and Squires

I have looked at all things a human admires.

At Gunderson's, at Biddle's and over at Pete's, too,

I asked to see their goods, both old and new.

I went to Penney's and then to the Sanpete.

I am quite sure I visited all places on Main Street.

I roamed North and South, and up and down,

Almost decided to go to some other town.

At last discouraged and in despair,

I searched mail order catalogs from everywhere.

But whenever I saw an article I thought would do,

I found that aft' their price, there was Uncle Sam's postage too.

I have seen radios, automobiles, blankets and mitts,

But darned if I could find anything for only two bits.

Today I decided on this present  plain and queer.

Here is wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

WA-SAT-KA LODGE Burned by vandals

The Wasatch Lodge was located up Pleasant Creek, east and north of the Mt. Pleasant Power Plant. There was a swinging bridge that crossed the creek from the main road.  Many happy memories of Family Reunions, Campouts, and Wiener Roasts were held there by Wasatch Students, Faculty and townspeople.

Barbara Ann Rasmussen of  Mt Pleasant's Fred Rassmussen  family  won the naming (WA-SAT-KA)  contest for the Lodge and her name may have been carved on an entry way log.  She was probably a freshman at the time or perhaps eight grade 1933 or 34.  lee