San Bernardino High School - Tyro Yearbook (San Bernardino, CA)

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,1,....11 - SBI-IS History Covers Seventy-Six Yea HISTORY OF SAN BERNARDINO HIGH SCHOOL by Roger SmiTh and Randy Briggs David Brainard STurges was a man OT many skills. A graduaTe OT The UniversiTy OT Michigan, he decided To become a CongregaTional preacher. ATTer a Tew years OT This, he decided ThaT he could do more good by Teaching young people Than preaching TO old. He gave up his parsonage and moved To San Bernardino. In l883, he esTablished a privaTe high school, The TirsT one in San Bernardino. IT was called STurges Academy. WiTh The esTablish- menT OT The school, The hisTory OT San Bernardino High School began. Ivlr. STurges mainTained his school, which was IocaTed on The norTh side OT 4Th sTreeT, a shorT disTance easT OT D sTreeT, unTil The ciTy OT San Bern- ardino decided To begin a public high school in l884. The ciTy hired an archiTecT Trom The EasT To come and build The school. NOT knowing anyThing abouT The climaTe OT SouThern CaliTOrnia, The archiTecT builT The school as mosT schools were builT in The EasT. IT was a Tour-sTory brick sTrucTure, designed To keep The heaT in during The cold winTers. RepOr'TedIy, This is exacTIy whaT iT did, buT iT did iT during The hoT summers. The school was builT on The souThwesT corner OT 8Th and E sTreeTs where STurges Junior High School is Today. Mr. STurges was hired by The ciTy To Teach maTh To The sTudenTs OT The new school, which numbered around 40 or 50 sTudenTs. ATTer several years OT devOTing Themselves To The TradiTional idea OT Teaching Their sTudenTs The basic TundamenTaIs OT knowledge, The TaculTy OT l903-O4 per- miTTed The organizaTi-on OT The AssociaTed STudenT Body. The year aTTer ThaT, The school wiTnessed The blossoming TorTh OT several exTra-curricular acTiviTies, such as The beginning OT The Tyro, organizaTion OT debaTe and aThleTic Teams. The Tyro was a quarTerly publicaTiOn, perTorming The combined Task OT yearbook, newspaper and liTerary magazine. OTher acTiviTies ThaT apparenTly had The blessing OT The adminisTraTion OT The school were Those OT Two TraTerniTies and Three sororiTies. AssociaTe ediTor OT The Tyro Tor The year ICIO7 was James A. OuThrie, now ediTor emeriTus OT The San Bern- ardino Sun-Telegram and chairman OT The board OT The Sun Company. His son, James K. GuThrie, now Sun publisher, was also on The Tyro sTaTT when he graduaTed in l93l. AnoTher Tamous graduaTe OT ThaT year was OranT Holcomb, who was sTudenT body presidenT and laTer became mayor OT San Bernardino. His son, OranT Holcomb, Jr., who now works Tor CBS as a news com- menTaTor in Los Angeles, is also an SBHS grad. A Tew years laTer, in l909-IO, while San Bernardino was sporTing an overTlowing sTudenT body OT an even 400, an assembly was arranged Tor The sTudenTs To hear a lecTure ThaT would be impossible Tor sTudenTs Today To hear. The speaker was a genTleman named Dr. Ban- croTT, and his subiecT was The AssassinaTion OT PresidenT Lincoln. As an eyewiTness, he said, I remember iT vividlyfi DeaTh OT Mr. STurges ln I9lO-I I, San Bernardino was a sad school indeed. AT The commencemenT exercises, Mr, STurges, as was cusTomary, was scheduled To address The senior class. As he rose Trom his seaT and mounTed The podium, he was sTruck down by a hearT aTTack. He Tell inTo The arms OT Mr. L. L. Beeman. principal OT The school, and died. The sTudenTs and TaculTy boTh were in a sTaTe OT shock and grieT Tor many days aTTerward. In The years immediaTely beTore The moving OT The high school To iTs presenT siTe, sTudenTs Tormed several new clubs, including The LaT-aLOTs, a dramaTic group and The Torerunner OT The presenT-day Thespians. An- oTher club -was The OSS, or Order -OT The Silver Sword. ITs purpose was To meeT once a week in order To read and sTudy The Bible. Because OT The crowded and nearly unbearable con- CIiTiOns OT The school, The School Board sTarTed acTiOn To geT a new school builT ThaT would have pIenTy OT room To expand. Many siTes were looked over, and Tinally one was decided upon. A large hunk OT cow pasTure IocaTed on The corner OT Two dirT paThs known as I9Th and E sTreeTs was purchased. In lvlarch, l9I5, The cornersTOne OT The main building was laid on The siTe by principal L. L. Beeman. ln his dedicaTion address, Mr. Beeman revealed The greaT plans he had Tor The TuTure OT The school. ATTer The iniTial consTrucTion OT The AdminisTraTion, Science, Classics and Home Ec buildings, Tive more were To be added as soon as possible. They were The bOy's and girl's gymnasium, The caTeTeria as well as agriculTural and commercial buildings. UnTil The caTeTeria could be builT, sTudenTs could eaT in The basemenT OT The Classics building, where The STudenT STore is now IocaTed. The paying OT Taxes, however. has changed very liTTle Trom The good Old days. Harrassed by people who were againsT building a high school in The TirsT place, Mr. Beeman pleaded Tor one more school improvmenT: l wanT To say iT is posiTively criminal To compel The pupils To go Trom one building To anoTher when iT is pouring down rain, geTTing Their cloThes and books drenched, and Thenlhave To remain all day in Their weT cloThing. and TO climb The Two exTra TlighTs OT sTairs when iT can all be avoided by expending a Tew hundred dollars. .Thus began The TiTTy year hisTOry OT San Bernardino High School aT iTs presenT siTe. 1915-1934 Because OT The disTance OT The new high school Trom downTown San Bernardino, many sTudenTs Took The sTreeT car To The end OT The line, Then walked The resT OT The way To school. Some Highland and RialT0 sTudenTs even rode horses To class. Hail, Hail SB High Early in The year OT l9l5-l6, Principal Beeman Offered a prize OT one dollar To The person who wguld Wrife 5 school hymn Tor SBHS. Two boys, Clarence Oreenhood

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as HSBHS Week in San Bernardino Mayors exchanged official documeni' proclaiming Cardinal Ciiy Week. X ir s. 'W -Qlsewfli +1 'K 4 'Mawr E ? ,2 G, Kenneih Dolan, principal: and Congressman Kennedy Memorial service and dedicafion of fhe 9Y'gfLARD'4'o Q 41FPE5l5' 4' 'ig as gffzfei' ci s E CITY OF SAN B INO 'q c' CALIFORNIA NUED nl X EEQQLAMAELQH WHEREAS, San Bernardino High School is justly proud accomplishments and achievements of the young people now or who have attended this educational institution during fifty years, and WHEREAS, the goals of our Nation are being attained because of the education provided by the American system public schools, and of the attending, the past in part of free WHEREAS, the schools of the Nation, State and community offer equal educational opportunities for every child as an essential ingredient for the preservation of freedom, and WHEREAS, the soaring enrollments caused by the population ex- plosion and by break-throughs in many fields of knowledge are chal- lenging the educators in a race against time to keep pace with the rapidly changing world while maintaining the aim for excellence, and WHEREAS, San Bernardino High School is celebrating its Golden Anniversary this year, and is planning a number of outstanding events and activities during the week commencing on March l, l965, NOW, TH REFORE, I, Donald G. Mauldin, Mayor of the City of San Bernardino do hereby proclaim the week of March l through March 5, 1965, as HCARDINAL CITY GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY WEEK,H in the City of San Bernardino, and urge all citizens of this community to acquaint them- selves first-hand with their schools so that all of us may justly evaluate their achievements, wisely provide for their needs, do our part in strengthening understanding and appreciation of the high standards of California's public education and reaffirm our interest in helping to preserve the public schools and their symbols of freedom. 1' A I , f ,V ff Dated this f ay of ,,f94,fg,,A,j , l965. Prepared by. Mm Ci y Attorney Mayor of t e City of San Bernardino

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Span on Three San Bernardino Sites and Clarence Coombes, decided To Try. Soon, They came up wiTh one ThaT everybody liked and even aTTer TiTTy years is srill sung by The sTudenTs OT SBT-lS. The Two boys spliT The reward. l9l5 Turned ouT To be a Tine year Tor sporTs and debaTing. The debaring Team won seven ouT OT nine debaTes, Thereby winning The CiTrus BelT DebaTing League Championship. The Team laTer came in second in The All-STaTe Championship. The baskeTball Team had a new TurnouT and hurriedly won The CBL championship. They, Too, laTer came in second in The All-S-ouThern Championships. The Tollowing year, l9I6, did noT Turn ouT as evenTTul as I9I5. This year a new club was added, The YWCA girl's club. During all previous years, rugby was played aT San Bernardino l-ligh buT in I9l6, The sporT was changed To American TooTball. The baskeTball season mighT have been an excellenT one Tor SBI-IS iT iT hadn'T been Tor The OpposiTion. Five oppOnenTs reTused To play The Cardinals and Thereby TorTeiTed The games. l9I7-I9I9, World War I Years ln The school year OT I9I7, all eyes were Turned Towards World War l. During The year, ThirTeen pa- TrioTic boys decided To drop school in order To TighT Tor Their counTry. The TooTball Team looked hopeTul during Their prac- Tice games, buT when iT came To league play iT was anoTher sTory: The Cards dropped every game. The baskeTball Team would have noThing To do wiTh such a record, however, and prompTly won The CBL. Also, The Tennis Team nabbed The CBL TiTle. ln l9l8, wiTh The growing inTensiTy OT The war, I78 boys decided To guiT school and TighT Tor Their counTry. IT has noT yeT been derermined wheTher The boys were in earnesT when They guiT school or wheTher The original ThirTeen ThaT had dropped school a year earlier had wriTTen back and compared TighTing aT The TronT wiTh sTudying aT school. Through need in The war, Two new clubs were sTarTed, The Junior Girls Surgery Club and The Junior Red Cross Club. This year The baskeTball Team Took home The bacon in The CBL. The Track Team also made a Tine showing by coming in second place in The STaTe Tinals. The nexT Two years were dev-oTed enTirely To The war eTTorT. Two hundred ninTy-Tour boys leTT school Tor acTive duTy. The sTudenTs aT school TelT iT Their duTy To do someThing Tor Those who were TighTing Tor Them so They sTarTed gardens and began war bond drives. AT The war's end in I9l9, 350 persons had war gardens eiTher aT home or on campus. Again in I9l9 and l92O, SBl-TS' baskeTballers won The CBL TiTle, Thus bringing Their winning sTreak To Tour consecuTive years, Mr. E. C. Cline, SBHS' baskeTball menTor, was building Teams ThaT would be known as The Yankees OT The CBL Tor several years. 1 1 CadeTs wi+h MiliTary Band By l92O, a new organizaTion, The CadeT Corps, was charTered as a school acTiviTy. lT now had over Two hundred TiTTy members and had iTs own miliTary band. Over The nexT Three years The baskerball Team won The CBL in T92 l, I922, and I923 bringing The champion- ship To eighT consecuTive seasons. Possibly one OT SBI-TS' mosT Tamous graduaTes aT- Tended Card CiTy in l92l. His name is Dr. Marshall Dimock, The broTher OT SBl-TS vice-principal ElizabeTh Dimock. Dr. Dimock is a proTessor OT poliTical science who has served as AssisTanT SecreTary OT Labor under Franklin D. Ro-osevelT as well as a commissioner OT The lmmigraTion and NaTuralizaTion Service. l-le has also held The posiTion OT consulTanT Tor The UniTed NaTions and NaTural Resources Commission, and many oTher governmenT posiTions. Some OT The gym Teachers decided ThaT a club should be Tormed having The besT leaders and aThleTes Trom each class as members. This club was called The Leaders' Corps. Ernie PinckerT-AThleTic Hero ln sporTs, boTh TooTball and baskeTball SBI-IS copped CBL championships led by perhaps The greaTesT aThleTe ever To have walked The halls OT Cardinal CiTy. l-lis name was Ernie PinckerT. ln his Treshman Through senior years aT SBT-lS H924-27i, he led The Cardinals To Tour sTraighT baskeTball championships. l-le laTer aTTended USC where he became an All-American TooTball sTar and won a Rose Bowl game Tor The Trojans wiTh a lasT- minuTe field goal. ATTer college, he played pro TooTball wiTh The WashingTon Redskins. ln l9'25, The TooTball Tield was permanenTly named STockTon Field in honor OT The Then currenT principal. STockTon Field had a lighTing sysTem, and some OT The home TooTball games were played under The lighTs. ln baskeTball, The SBl-lSers again romped Through The CBL. Two clubs were Tormed wiTh The idea OT promoTing school spiriT, The BoosTer Club and The RooTer Club or girls' pep club. The year T926 Turned ouT To be one OT The besT all- around years in The hisTory OT The school. l-lelping To boosT SBI-TS To many honors was a sTudenT by The name OT Dean Woolridge who won several cups and Trophies Tor being The TasTesT and mosT accuraTe TypisT in SouThern CaliTornia. ln The field OT sporTs, SBHS showed The oTher schools ThaT iT could do almosT anyThing iT puT iTs mind To by winning The CBL in TooTball, baskeTball, lighTweighT baskeTball and Track. The sTudenTs OT The school had a righT To be proud OT The Track Team because iTs capTain, Jimmy Payne held The World InTersch-olasTic record Tor The 220 yard low hurdles aT 23.8 seconds. Also during This year, a new club was Tormed. lTs name was The Baby BeeT Club and was Tormed by boys inTeresTed in raising caTTle. H