Alhambra High School - Alhambran Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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The Bulletin Goes to Press . . . . . WITH THE BUSINESS WORLD CRYING FOR MORE AND MORE WORKERS, THE Commercial department's importance on our campus has taken on new significance. At first the depart- ment must have felt unwanted and mistreated, for it was transferred from building to building. The original department of one teacher and a handful of students was begun in 1907, in two rooms in an old building on the site of the present Alhambra City Library. After a long period of moving around from one building to another, the department finally came into its own and was proudly installed in our present Commercial Building. Now life at Alhambra would seem incomplete without the many classes offered by the department: typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, salesmanship, business, and many others. Today we salute the department and its many students-the typists, the secretaries, the executives of tomorrow. 161

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Artistic Calm Posed, No Doubt . . . . . OF COURSE YOU'VE NOTICED THE BULLETIN BOARDS THAT LINE THE HALLS of AHS. But you wouldn't if it weren't for the clever posters and illustrations that our art students make to announce forthcoming dances, elections, and other school projects. The department has always offered an abundance of courses, even at the beginning of formal art classes in 1906. At that time, basic courses such as graphic art, still life drawing, and figure drawing were given. In l9l0-l2, when the first annuals appeared in AHS, the department introduced a course in Annual Design. The department has continued throughout the years to work hard and contribute to the success of the annual. Today, new techniques and crafts challenge the most enterprising students of art. The curriculum, which includes costume design, stagecraft, commercial art, and ceramics among others, is varied enough to accommodate all students' interests. The department hopes to have original paintings in every school room. Already many of the rooms have them, some being painted by alumni. This fact alone is prophetic of the next fifty years' growth of the department. U51

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