A new reader board has been installed in front of Wenatchee High School and was paid for by donations of the Class of 1963 as a 50th year gift for the school. A total of $18-19,000 was raised.

Dick Black, a WHS alumni and retired brigadier general, led the effort to get the new board installed. He asked school officials what gift would be most useful to WHS and the reader board was at the top of the list.

“Nearly all schools that I have seen have an electronic reader board and I noticed that Wenatchee High School didn’t,” Black said.

Graybeal Signs was hired to place the reader board in front of WHS. The reader board will be used to communicate events, school-related successes, to thank people, and to release more information to the public. WHS installed a Class of ‘63 sign above the board to honor and thank them for their fine efforts in raising the money.

“We really appreciate the class of 1963 for the persistence and hard work they put into this,” Activities Director Brent Grothe said.

A congratulatory ceremony was held on Oct. 8 to thank and commemorate the graduating Class of 1963. “This is a gift to the community when we advertise our school to the public,” Black said at the dedication. “This gift was a wonderful way to improve our school and many thanks were given to the classmates that raised the money to purchase the reader board”

“I’d like to thank our classmates,” another project leader Myron Atwood said. “We are proud to be Panthers.”

The reader board is controlled through a WiFi connection that is loaded to a laptop with a program that allows all school related agenda to be posted. “I can put anything up there as long as they fit the guidelines,” ASB Secretary Tami Walters said.

This reader board will be used to show off are school in a professional and classy way.

“All high school affiliated things will be shown in a classy way to show ourselves,“ Grothe said.