Eureka High School - Sequoia Yearbook (Eureka, CA)

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24 THE SEQUOIA For three years the paper pursued its course of gradual improvement, auf! then with a sudden bound the Sequoia really became a Sequoia in 1905, with the Senior pictures for tl1e first time, a much better grade of paper, and the doubling of the magazine in sizye. ln the next five years the magazine became better and better. The pic- tures of the Student liody officers, the Faculty and the Executive Committee were added: photographs of the track, football and baseball teams were used and the new departments of School Notes, Dramatics and Debate, and Organizations Lame into being. From 1910 the Sequoia has been one of the best books in the state. VVe want it to always be so. ln the latter part of 1918 work was done on the Sequoia as usual, but it must be remembered that it was during a time when Liberty bonds and war work funds were making a heavy demand on the merchants, and the school decided it was best to put out a little monthly, and abandon the Sequoia to save expense. The flu, however, greatly interfered with the plans, though two issues of the Telescope wlere put out very successfully from a fi- nancial viewpoint. llesides the Telescope there have been two other papers printed by the school-the Sophomore Bee, a monthly issued by the Sophomores, and the Evergreen Qdon't you think it an appropriate name?j put out by the Freshmen. lloth of these papers appeared in 1917, and were in existence for sev- eral months. lfVe are sorry we do not have them now, for we believe that a monthly is a great factor in keeping up school spirit. In March of this year the matter of the Sequoia came up again-this time from outside forces-and when brought before the school it was decided to publish our annual as usual. As we had only eight weeks to do a year's work in, we began work on soliciting ads and gathering material at once, and we have been working ever since, with lack of time as our worst enemy. XVe are glad that there will not be a gap in the history of our Sequoia. We are thankful we were able to put it out as usual, and we fervently hope that the Sequoia will al- ways exist and will continue to increase in size, and improve in quality in tl1e years that are to come.-M. S., '19, Old High School Where Paper Criginated

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. ,Qt f,f f'W'Ms--mea .x.X .. ., inn-..... ' EUREKA HIGH SCHOOL o You Know? O YOU know the history of your school papers? Did it ever occur to you that the Sequoia has not always been in existence ' -that there were two high school papers published beforte it. and that there have been three since? Did you know that the selves? Do you know how many years it has taken to devel. ip type for the first paper was set by the eager students them- W- the Sequoia of today, and do you know what other papers have been printed since the Sequoia came into being? The answers to these questions are ones you ought, to know, for they are not only matters of general interest, but they directly affect the history of your school. Xthen you think of the work and endeavor which the high school stu- dents of yesterday niade to keep their paper alive, and the endieavor we are mak- ing today to put out our book, you cannot help but feel the bond of sympathy between the liureka lligh of the past 211111 our high school of the present. Twenty-four years ago the first lligh School paper was published. The year was 1893, the time when the lligh School was first established and the paper was necessarily printed by the Freshmen. lt was called the School Rc- portcrf' and was a four page paper of three columns printed monthly. All the type setting was done by the students themselves ta terrific job, as anyone who has ever attempted to set type will testlfyl and in 1899 the editor became so dis- gusted with the labors of typesettnig that he sold the outfit to a firm who were to print the paper until the value of the type had been reached. The paper was put in pamphlet form in 1899 and christened the Pacific, but financial conditions were so discouraging that publication was suspended until 1902, when the first Sequoia made its appearance. lt will be hard for you to realize how different the first Sequoia was from the Sequoia we know. It was a very small pamphlet with a light green cover, very cheap paper, and minus all cuts and pictures. There were fivte departments: lfxchanges, Jokes, Athletics, Alumni, and Locals. The editor-in-chief of the first Sequoia was Lloyd llryan, and his business manager, Curtis XVright.

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