Aloha High School Farm was purchased, and in 1966, construction began on a new building. There were construction delays, so in September 1968, the first Aloha High School tenth and eleventh grade students used the former Merle Davies Elementary School and parts of Beaverton High School. The Aloha High School building, though incomplete, held its first classes in 1970. The community of Aloha (pronounced Ah-LO-wa) was likely named for a place in the state of Wisconsin, and not for the Hawaiian word "aloha". The association with Hawaii, however, gives the school its mascot, a Hawaiian warrior, and the design of the school crest,
What Cheer, Iowa the site that would become Providence in 1636, he was greeted by Narragansett Native Americans with "What Cheer, "Netop"". "Netop" was the Narragansett word for "friend", and the Narragansetts had picked up the "what cheer" greeting from English settlers. It is possible that the connection between What Cheer, Iowa and What Cheer, the shibboleth of Rhode Island, was merely coincidental - the entries for these subjects are adjacent but not connected in the 1908 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana. What Cheer has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. Robert Forsyth, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, came to America