Students posing on the original staircase that ascended to the top floor of the academy on the building’s backside. Photo from collection of Newell Hart. On its back it says “Prof Otte with violin – first boy to his right is Orville Neeley. Left to right, fourth girl front, Allabel.”
In 1922, the state of Idaho purchased the Oneida Stake Academy Building from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was getting out of public education, and converted the edifice into a state run high school. That is when it became known as Preston High School. The building was used by the school […]
www.oneidastakeacademy.com Above is a link to the Oneida Stake Academy’s official website. On it you’ll find information on the academy’s move to its present location in Benson Park in the center of Preston City. You’ll also find links to old newspaper articles of the academy’s glory days and past OSAF newsletters.
Frank Gilbert, born in Fairview, Idaho, in 1894, to Daniel and Amelia Gilbert, attended the Oneida Stake Academy and played basketball for the school’s team. Following is the text from an article that appeared in the Box Elder News on March 16, 1911. Gilbert would have been almost 16-years-old, and may have played in this […]
Recently donated to the Oneida Stake Academy Foundation is this teacher’s certificate issued to Dimon Bodily in 1915 by the Franklin County School Superintendent Henry Simpson. Bodily was certified to teach for one year in the areas of reading, language, arithmetic, history and geography.