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Marc Andreessen class of 1989, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp and Mosaic
Linda Balgord, class of 1976, Broadway actress, Cats (Grizabella)
William H. Barnes, Wisconsin State Representative
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William H. H. Cash, Wisconsin State Representative
Dr. Michael Clark, Founder of Fusionetics
Truman Lowe, class of 1962, sculptor
H. J. Mortensen, Wisconsin State Representative
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Tammy Richmond, Class of 1980, Entrepreneur
Harry E. Siman, class of 1888, member of the Nebraska State Senate
Brian Slater, 4 Time WIAA Wisconsin State Wrestling Champion, 1993-1996
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Dwight A. York, Wisconsin State Representative, was born in New Lisbon
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New Lisbon High School (or NLHS) is a high school in New Lisbon, Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the School District of New Lisbon. The district serves students residing in the City of New Lisbon, Village of Hustler, and the towns of Clearfield, Cutler, Fountain, Germantown, Lisbon, Orange, Clifton, and Oakdale. The school is a member of the Scenic Bluffs Conference and the mascot is the Rockets.
Going down Memory Lane
The first school building in New Lisbon was a slab building, which stood on Bridge Street located on the Hess lot. The first teacher, Mr. Tyler, was as rough as the building itself. When a pupil named Charles Shafer acted up in class, Tyler broke the boy's arm. The school board refused to renew Tyler's contract for a second year and replaced him with Amanda Lawrence, who later became Mrs. H. Norton.
Principal W. S. Johnson was instrumental in organizing the high school and gaining state accreditation in 1877. The first high school graduating class had two members: Nellie Smith Fowler and Dedie Beebe.
New Lisbon grew larger and more room was needed two buildings were erected, one for the grammar school where our current swimming pool is now which held the fifth to the eighth grades and the other a two story building across the street which is now our present New Lisbon Memorial Library lot.
This held the first four grades on the lower floor with the high school on the second floor. Later a kindergarten was built onto this building, which at times housed mere infants, as there was no established school age.
At first there were nine grades besides the kindergarten but this was later changed to eight to conform to other schools in the county.
These buildings after standing for many years were eventually condemned as unsanitary and over-crowded, so in the year 1900 a new brick school house was built on the site where the grammar school stood, the children moved into this school the first part of January 1901.
The old buildings were sold and moved away. These buildings being moved to the center of the city which changed into a store. This building became a fire trap that nearly burned New Lisbon to the ground in 1903. The kindergarten building was saved and set on a new foundation facing north and south instead of east and west, and was used until 1907 when it was abandoned. This was finally sold and moved near the depot where it eventually burned to the ground.
The school burned in 1907.
The school would be quickly rebuilt in 1908 with a beautiful new state-of-the-art facility.
In 1915 the Juneau County Normal was located at New Lisbon and Manual Arts and Music added to the high school course of study. This called for several additional rooms, also our gymnasium was very poor, so plans were made for an addition to the school building which was completed during the summer of 1916, with the County Normal school rooms on the upper floors and new gym on the first floor. The commercial department was added to the high school in 1917. In 1926, the athletic field directly behind the school was purchased by the city. The Manual Art and Domestic Science courses were discontinued in 1930 because of the depression.
In 1970, the new high school would be built resulting in grades 5-8 students moving back to the main building from the Juneau County Teachers College. The JCTC was eventually torn down to make way for the new city swimming pool.
Many changes and additions took place in 2000 with the connection of all school buildings, a brand-new state-of-the-art media center, removing old elementary wing, constructing new elementary addition, and remodeling the high school classrooms.
In 2018, the New Lisbon community passed a referendum to add our new athletic facility began. [article] [referendum passed]
Juneau County Teachers College
Juneau County followed the state's lead recognizing the need to improve the quality of the teachers in its rural schools in the last quarter of the 1800s. High schools were originally established in order to supply teachers for country schools. Any graduate was eligible for the job and females who completed high school were expected to become teachers whether or not they were competent.
This building began in 1908, housing the High School, Elementary Grades, and County Normal. The latter began operation in 1917. A vocational school was organized and housed in this same building when Robert Walker was mayor of New Lisbon. This building served the educational needs of New Lisbon until 1951. A one-story brick building for grades K-3 was built west of the existing building that year. Four more rooms were added to that structure in 1955. There were three rooms on the east end and the other on the west.
Five years later, in 1960, the old building was found to be inadequate for the High School. In that year the electors chose to build a High School building south of and connected to the elementary building. This was ready for occupancy in October of 1961
As the years progressed and space was needed, the voters decided to build a new senior High School building. In 1970, this building was begun to the west of the elementary unit.
In 1972 it was ready for classes. At the time this construction was being done, ad addition was being added to the existing grade school. There were four rooms in the new educational facilities.
The old 1908 building was then used for Junior High classes and some of the grades. Five years later, in 1975 it was torn down and the area used as a playground. At a later date the land was transferred to the city for our beautiful swimming pool.
Another addition was begun in the spring of 1989. It connected the present elementary, junior high, and high school structures. The latest addition occurred in 2000 when a new elementary school was built, junior high remodeled, and additions to the high school as well as a brand new media center.
School Song History
Ever wonder where that came from? The high school band director presents the tune of "College Boy" to his students in 1927. He then asked them to come up with words to go along with the melody. A school wide contest was held. The judges were unable to decide the winner, so they took the first part of one song written by Gordon McNown and the last part of another song written by Dorothy Cole, Alice Christensen, Vera Grown, and Leota Plunmkett to combine into the traditional song we still sing proudly today.
[Taken from Historic New Lisbon by Jayne M. Turner, 2004; Chapter 10 School History]
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