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Rediscovering home: Superior school board

by Bruce Moats
| May 22, 2024 12:00 AM

Excuse the pride that surged through my chest as Superintendent Logan Labbe led me through the entry to Superior High School gymnasium. The sign above us read: Lee B. Moats Memorial Gymnasium.

My father was among those who worked hard so that I and my graduating class of 1974,  and all those classes after me, could enjoy a vastly superior (forgive the pun) gym. Dad, who repaired and sharpened the huge saws at the mill, served on the board for 25 straight years, and then served two or three more to fill an unexpired term.

A massive heart attack struck him down while gathering firewood in his beloved mountains in late summer of 1974.  He was 51. 

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