Moorhead High School flaunted Spud spirit proudly with its homecoming parade Friday, Sept. 29 — celebrating not only the schools and students of today, but the school district’s 150th birthday.

Bearing banners proclaiming “Once a Spud — Always a Spud,” marching musical units and contingents of youth represented everything from athletics and debate to student council and elementary classes.

The curbs along 20th Street South were thronged with cheering supporters — there to applaud Spuds of every stripe, but also to collect pocketsful of penny candy. “We’re covered for trick or treaters now,” one young mother exulted.

The weekend’s festivities also included a nostalgic farewell to Moorhead High’s 1968 building on Saturday morning and the annual Hall of Honor banquet. Six Moorhead High graduates were inducted, including Cordelia Blount, 1927; Randall Flick, 1975; Robert Littlefield, 1940; Tom Shimabukuro, 1986; Al Swedberg, who became Moorhead’s first director of special education in 1969; and Chuck Watson, who began teaching social studies in 1961 and in 1964 started the high school hockey program, which he coached until 1972.

(Photos/Nancy Hanson.)