Alhambra High School - Alhambran Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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oxide was then used for medicinal purposes only New buildings were added as enrollment In creased, and in l924 the Administration Building as we know it today, was dedicated By this time Garvey and San Gabriel students had seen the light and were attending Al- hambra High School. However, even good things can be overdone, and in the late thirties enrollment had reached a point where students were so thick-not mentally, you understand--that staggered classes became necessary. In tact, everyone was staggering around in confusion under the 4200 en- rollment load. lt was then all the good citizens realized the need for another high school. In Febru- ary Mark Keppel, the home of our country cousins, was opened. We students of Alhambra High School are proud of our school and all that it stands for. May its next fifty years bring new laurels to its name. But PLEASE, if you know anyone who has a vacant lot or a part of his back yard which he no longer needs, tell him that we would like to build a new school there. The fire and ambu- lance sirens on Main X 1 Street are exciting, but they certainly do ,,,,f take our minds oft - - our work.

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. . . . . RESOLVED: THAT WE QTHE CITIZENS OF ALHAMBRAJ PROCEED TO TAKE the necessary steps to form a high school district. At Adams Hall March ll, l898, this solemn resolution was made by a representative group of civic-minded Alhambra residents. Perhaps the large families of Mr. A. C. Weeks and Mr. L. B. DeCamp lseven children each? were reason enough to correct the problem of continuing education beyond the elementary level-the necessity of steam train travel to Los Angeles or the dobbin-and-shay trip to Pasadena in order to get more Iarnin. Formal preliminary procedures completed, the problem of a name and location arose. Naturally Alhambra High School would be the school's name, but where would school be conducted? Now it seems that two vacant rooms at Garfield Elementary School were to be had for the asking. Storage space could be found else- where. Without too much fanfare Alhambra High School proudly announced that it was open for business, and some seventeen eager learners re- sponded. That was September of 1898, and the Board of Trustees ap- pointed Mr. A. C. Wheat assistant principal at the fabulous salary of S495 yearly! His teaching responsibilities were divided with one other teacher: his administrative duties were his own. The inadequacy of the first site became evident: and when the county superintendent visited the fast-growing city, he traveled wa-a-ay out Main Street to Atlantic, through deep dust, and im- mediately decided such a site was too far out. Eventually, in 1905, on Main Street between what was then Winsor and Cleveland Streets fThird and Fourth to youl, a new building was prcudly dedicated. Certain irate citizens believed it too large and declared that it should be used as an asylum for the Board of Trustees. l But the Board had other ideas about the use of the building and the campus, and it wasn't long before such things as 4 girls' gym classes were started: black-stockinged, bloomer-suited pretties could be seen playing that rough game of basketball at about the present site of the student store. By l9ll thirty-three proud hopefuls were in the graduating class. It was about this time that Long Beach and Catalina were the ZS lucky hosts to the Easter Week high school crowds. Laguna and Balboa were mere names, and per- liwwq A , L

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