Washington High School (Portland, Oregon)

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Washington High School was oldest high school in Portland, Oregon. Early in the 20th Century, when the Portland Public Schools decided to build another high school in North Portland, the school board decided to use the names of U.S. Presidents and Founding Fathers for high school names. The first three names selected for the soon-to-be three high schools were Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. Portland Public Schools decided to close Washington High School ("Washington-Monroe" by then) in the 1980's.

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Linus Pauling, Two-time Noble Prize winner, awarded his diploma in 1962 45 years after leaving Washington because he was not allowed to take a required course a year early in order to attend Oregon State University.^[1]