The Upper Kittitas County Heritage Council grew out of the efforts by Fred Krueger who was teaching Northwest History at the high school in 1970. Recognizing that his students lacked knowledge about their ethnic and community heritage, Mr. Krueger wrote up a Title II Special Purpose Grant which was funded before the 1970-1971 school year. From this grant Mr. Krueger obtained the materials and resource people he needed to involve his students in learning about their community as well as to initiate action preservation projects in the community by his students. The preservation of the history of the County continued with the formation of the Upper Kittitas County Heritage Council.
Frederick Krueger is a retired high school teacher from Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington. Frederick Ernest Krueger was born in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota in 1939. He attended public schools at Sleepy Eye and graduated from the local high school in 1958. From the fall of 1958 until he graduated in the spring of 1962 he studied teaching science and social studies at Mankato State College. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science, he taught at schools in Moville and Keokuk, Iowa. In 1965, Krueger was accepted in the Russian Regional Studies Program at the University of Washington. He left the program in 1967 for a teaching position in social studies at Cle Elum High-Roslyn School. In 1969, Krueger received his Masters degree from the University of Washington. Soon after his arrival in Cle Elum, he launched several student oriented projects to capture the regional history of the Upper Kittitas Valley. His many students became involved in historical community projects, oral history programs and various other activities to preserve the area' rich heritage. The most notable was the Roslyn Cemeteries preservation and documentation project in partnership with the Roslyn Kiwanis Club which he managed from 1974 to 1996. He was one of the founding members of the Upper Kittitas County Heritage Council in 1973 and was very influential in saving the historic Salmon la Sac guard station from destruction in 1977. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study China and Japan from 1988 to 1990. In 1993, Mr. Krueger was recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes Grant that allowed him to study in China for five weeks. Between 1994 and 1995, he was selected by Governor Lowery and the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction to teach in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He retired from teaching in June of 1996. He has collaborated on several state, county and regional history books along with numerous articles in local newspapers.
From the description of How the Upper Kittitas Valley is preserving its heritage, Sept. 26, 1975 / by the Upper Kittitas County Heritage Council. (Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State). WorldCat record id: 433147926
