Mark Morris High School
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Mark Morris High School is a public high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 in Cowlitz County
Cowlitz County, Washington
Cowlitz County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2010 census its population was 102,410. It forms the Longview, Washington, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Cowlitz County. The county seat is at Kelso, and its largest city is Longview...

 in Longview, Washington
Longview, Washington
Longview is a city in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. It is the principal city of the "Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area", which encompasses all of Cowlitz County. Longview's population was 36,648 at the time of the 2010 census and is the largest city in Cowlitz County...

 for grades nine through twelve. , it had an enrollment of 1141 students.

The school was built in 1957 and is named for Samuel Mark Morris, the third president of the Long-Bell Lumber Company
Long-Bell Lumber Company
In 1887, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber yard...

. The school has a partially open campus. Students are allowed to leave campus during lunch if they wish.

Sports

The Mark Morris Monarchs compete in a wide variety of sports, including football, basketball, girls' volleyball, soccer, cross country, water polo, wrestling, swimming, baseball, golf, bowling, softball, tennis, and track and field. Local rivals include the R.A. Long High School Lumberjacks and the Kelso Hilanders
Kelso High School (Washington)
-History:In 1905, the first Kelso High School classes began with the first seniors graduating in 1909. Thirteen years later, a new high school was built, known as Kelso High School, in 1922. The first year the high school was accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools was in...

. Mark Morris plays its home football games at Longview Memorial Stadium, which is near the R.A. Long campus. http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=R+A+Long+high+school&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&ll=46.140683,-122.95465&spn=0.011567,0.029268&t=h&iwloc=A

Mark Morris plays rival R.A. Long at least once a year in football in a game called the Civil War.

The Mark Morris gymnasium is named for Ted M. Natt, former editor of The Daily News
The Daily News (Longview)
The Daily News is the primary newspaper of Longview, Kelso, Washington, and Cowlitz County, Washington. It is owned by Lee Enterprises, which acquired the newspaper with its 2002 purchase of Howard Publications. Howard, in turn, had purchased the paper in 1999 from Ted and John Natt, grandsons of...

.

The school has a swimming pool on campus, The Dick Mealy Memorial Pool.

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