Shasta Union High School District history

The Vice-Principal in 1901 was Verne A. McGeorge, who later went on to found the McGeorge School of Law

Benjamin Macomber was the Principal in 1905, and went on to become the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle

Football began in 1922 and Shasta lost its first game, 34-0 to Chico High School

By 1926, the student enrollment number had grown to over 450, and need for a new campus became clear, as the school building had been built for 250 students.

Shasta College was founded in 1948 as part of the Shasta Union High School District.

In the Centennial year of California and Shasta County (1950), Shasta College opened its doors on Eureka Way in the Fall with 256 day students.

In 1955 the Shasta College Motor Knights Club built a knight with a suit of armor and lance.

Shasta College grew so rapidly that, in 1964, voters approved a bond issue for construction of a 337-acre campus at the current main campus location.

In 1991, Nova High was closed and 9th graders moved back into Shasta High and the other high schools.

A state-of-the-art $1.5 million Early Childhood Education child care center and instructional facility opened on the Redding Campus in the fall of 2005.

In the fall of 2007, a 44,000 square foot Health Sciences and University Center opened in the heart of downtown Redding, which houses the college’s Dental Hygiene and Nursing Programs.

His name is “Oakey Doaks” (named for a popular comic strip character of the time). In 2012, a serious storm destroyed the original Oakey Doaks.