Class of 1996 - 30 Year Reunion Photo

Welcome Back, Hawks

Thanks for a wonderful reunion weekend! We look forward to seeing you all at the next one.

Then & Now

Find Your Classmates

Search our alumni directory to reconnect with old friends, teammates, and classmates from the Class of 96.

Share Your Story

What have you been up to since 1996? Log in to update your profile and let everyone know where life has taken you.

Nostalgia Lane

Relive every year of high school with throwback content - music, movies, news, and Alta memories from 1993 to 1996.

This Day in Hawk History

Local & World News
1993 Russian President Yeltsin orders special forces to storm the parliament building.
1994 The ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people in Europe's worst peacetime maritime disaster
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo 2 Accord to transfer West Bank to the PLO (Taba, Egypt)
1995 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization sign the Oslo II Accord, expanding Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank

Business & Economy
1993 The World Bank approves a $1 billion loan for China's infrastructure development.

Pop Culture
1993 The film "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is released by Tim Burton and Disney.
1995 American singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle in Roxbury, Massachusetts; his friend Steven Sealy is killed

Tech
1993 Motorola announces the StarTAC mobile phone, the first true clamshell design.

Sports
1993 The Philadelphia Phillies win Game 2 of the World Series in extra innings.
1995 Dennis Martínez' fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett's jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win

Science
1993 Scientists detect a new class of gamma ray bursts from distant galaxies.

Alta Fun Facts

  • Known as the Home of the Hawks -- Once a hawk, always a hawk.
  • Opened in 1978 around the time that we were born!
  • Originally part of the Jordan School District. Now it is part of Canyons School District.
  • Has one of the largest AP programs in Utah. 
  • Has an award-winning performing arts program.