W. R. Myers High School

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W. R. Myers High School
Address
5511 54th St.
Taber , Alberta , T1G 1L5
Flag of Canada.svg  Canada
Coordinates 49°47′27″N112°08′32″W / 49.79094°N 112.14228°W / 49.79094; -112.14228 Coordinates: 49°47′27″N112°08′32″W / 49.79094°N 112.14228°W / 49.79094; -112.14228
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School type Public, high school
Founded 1950
Principal Ken Pon
Staff approx. 100
Grades 9-12
Language English
Area Taber, Alberta
Mascot Rebel
Team name Rebels
Website wrmyers.horizon.ab.ca

W. R. Myers High School is located in Taber, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1950, it is the town's only public high school. Students at W.R. Myers range from grade 9 to grade 12. Taber's middle school, D.A. Ferguson, shares a Cafeteria and a band room with W.R. Myers. The school has about 480 students and 50 staff members both teachers and others. W.R. Myers has had a large success in Sports and Music, creating a name for itself in Western Canada. The Basketball team and the WR Myers Fighting Rebels Football team has brought much success to the school. The school is widely known for the shooting that took place on April 28, 1999 leaving 1 student dead and a second wounded.

Taber, Alberta Town in Alberta, Canada

Taber is a town in southern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Taber. It is located approximately 51 km (32 mi) east of the City of Lethbridge at the intersection of Highway 3 and Highway 36.

Alberta Province of Canada

Alberta is a western province of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,067,175 as of 2016 census, it is Canada's fourth most populous province and the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Its area is about 660,000 square kilometres (250,000 sq mi). Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1, 1905. The premier has been Rachel Notley since 2015.

Cafeteria food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service

A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S., is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen. Cafeterias are different from coffeehouses, although the English term came from Latin American Spanish, where it had and still has the meaning "coffeehouse".

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History

The new Taber High School opened its doors to students September 1950. Grades 10-12 moved into twenty classrooms equipped with a science lab, Two Home Economics rooms, one for homemaking the other for sewing, and Industrial Arts room with a small theatre, and a cafeteria with a kitchen. The structure, which cost about $200,000 to build, was to house 450 students.

In 1960 a Junior High wing and fine arts room, dubbed the “Lemon Squeezer” was constructed on the north end of the high school. The addition included two large gymnasiums, one for the Junior High grade 7-8 classes and one for the Senior High, a library and an office. At the time the new Junior/Senior High complex was named W.R Myers School in honour of Walter Ray Myers, a 27-Year school trustee. It was at this time that classes in the junior high school became departmentalized with one home room teacher and other individual teacher’s instructing specific courses such as one for Math and one for Social, etc.

For nearly twenty years W.R Myers School saw little change except for a few cosmetic improvements and additions. Two air force hangars were moved just east of the school after World War II. One had three grade one classes in it, the other was the auditorium/gymnasium. Later, the grade one building became the industrial Arts shop. When the new gyms were completed at the Myers complex one of the hangars was moved to Cranford to be used as a community hall. A permanent Industrial Arts wing was added to the high school, and the air force hangar became a maintenance shop for the Taber School Division. Soon a Home Economics wing was added. It ran parallel to the Industrial arts wing. It was two story additions with a library; a visual aids room and business education classrooms. In the early 1970s, an Integrated Occupations Program for Junior and Senior High students was organized to accommodate students wanting to learn a trade rather than go to university. Students were being bussed from out-lying areas and there were many graduates working through their programs. In 1981, the two schools split, the north end becoming Taber Junior High for grades 7-9 and grades 10-12 becoming W.R. Myers High School.

With unexpected death of Junior High Principal, Donald A. Ferguson in 1985, the name was changed to D.A Ferguson Junior High. It was at that time that grade 6 classes were moved from the central school because of overcrowding.

By 1990, the grade 9 classes were moved to the high school and by 1994 D.A Ferguson had become D.A Ferguson Middle School housing grades 6-8, with W.R. Myers housing grades 9-12.

The school got a completely modern look when it underwent renovations. This included adding administration space, new library space that would be used for junior and senior high students, and an enclosed concourse hall along the east side of the school, a new ornamental façade at the entrance, and other changes to better utilize the school’s space. By 2002 courses in multimedia were introduced after cable wiring was installed.

The school gained notoriety after the April 28, 1999 W. R. Myers High School shooting, only eight days after the Columbine High School massacre. A 14-year-old former student of the school entered the school and shot two students, killing one and wounding another. [1]

The W. R. Myers High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on April 28, 1999, at W. R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta, Canada. The gunman, 14-year-old school dropout Todd Cameron Smith, walked into his school and began firing at three students in a hallway, killing one student and wounding another student. It was the first fatal high-school shooting in Canada since the Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting, 24 years earlier.

Columbine High School massacre School shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States on April 20, 1999

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  1. ↑ CBC News. Taber school shooting information
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