Alhambra High School - Alhambran Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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,lawn-N I-4-f MAURICE R. STOKESBARY Superintendent of Alhambra Schools 'il MARGARET BISHOP Secretary To Superinfendent These are iusT The beginnings. Buildings are already Tumbling down around our ears. In Their place will rise a new look, a new audiTorium seaTing TiTTeen hundred people, an expandable gym, a new sTudenT governmenT room where pasT will mingle wiTh The presenT. This is The new look for AHS in 1963. The consTrucTion aT AHS, however, is noT all ThaT The Board of EducaTion has been handling. The elemenTary school disTricT has also been un- der a consTrucTion-rehabiliTaTion program. By Sep- Tember of 1961 The elemenTary schools will be back on regular school Time and in safe, well- equipped classrooms. ln November The Alham- bra Board of EducaTion approved The annexaTion of The MonTerey Hills disTricT. These adminisTra- Tors are conTinually meeTing, and wiTh progress. These concerned adminisTraTors are also look- ing far inTo The TuTure of Alhambra. The possi- biIiTies of having an acTual junior college are noT so far away. Though This is merely in The earliesT sTages, Alhambra is looking ahead. We aT Alhambra High School owe much To Those who guide, advise, and Teach us. We oTTen TorgeT how much sincere help and Time Those nine anxious people render us. Alhambra's re- alizaTion of a new high school would never have maTerialized had noT The Board of EducaTion, Su- perinTendenT Maurice STokesbary, and AssisTanT SuperinTendenTs RoberT F. Gray, Charles Scanlon, and Dr. Elmer Ensz cared abouT The TuTure of Alhambra's children and leaders of Tomorrow. a . ROBERT F. GRAY DR. ELMER ENSZ CHARLES C. SCANLON Special Services Curriculum Business

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