Anderson Union High School - Aurora Yearbook (Anderson, CA)

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and chemistry laboratories, a commercial room, an assembly hall and a gymna- sium. The advantages of such a structure are obvious. The Rio Yista joint Lfnion High School tsee illustration page sevenl, with an enrollment of fifty-seven, enjoys a building which cost 5l349,000, not including architects fees, furnace and other expenses. Among several desir- able features, there is an assembly hall with a seating capacity of 400 and six class-rooms. The bonds for Dixons 360,000 structure were defeated the first time, but by dint of perseverance, carried later. Although the school includes nine grammar districts, the enrollment is but ninety-two. ' Here are offered courses in the classics, sciences, commerce and home economics. The need for newer and better accommodations was so strongly felt at Fair Oaks that no campaign was necessary to secure the bonds for the San Juan Union High School, although the tax-rate was very high, sixty-six cents per one hundred dollars. The San juan Union High School has live teach- ers now and an enrollment of ninety-four, but foresight has been used to the extent of engaging seven teachers for the coming school year, anticipating an increased attendance. XVith the increased faculty and capacity. there have been planned thorough literary, scientihc, domestic, and commercial courses. with a view to meeting the needs of the pupils of the community. The principle involved is that the school is a community institution and should serve the community educationally and socially in every way possible. Besides the evident advantage of the convenience, the pupil gains interest through the fresh, pleasant attractiveness of his surroundings. XVe cannot deny the inHuence of environment, especially on the mind of the young student. X1Vithout doubt, there would be fewer students leaving school in the middle of the term and more new ones entering, it the surroundings were more alluring. ln a Hne, new building, our attendance would be doubled in a year. ls anything but the best good enough for your own boys and girls, and those of your friends,-Oh, ye taxpayers? Do not the present conditions make a mute appeal for something better? Are you going to allow your neighbor counties to call you unprogressive? We leave you to draw your own conclusions. Tlrlli F:XCUlfl'Y. Sunset in Anhvrznit By l:R.fXNClSS M. -lnssex, '16 The golden sun has almost reached his goal, He quickly drops to rest behind the hills, Hut Hings the glory of his march from pole To pole. ,The Heecy clouds in rolls and rills Are brightened mystically with every shade: I look once more, the fairy scene has passed And streaks and veins of gold are deftly laid ln royal clouds of purple hue, all massed: Then night engulfs all but the joy on mem'ry cast. Six

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Anilrrann sinh Anhernnn Halley By L.xt'R.x VVAIJFON, '16. In the upper part of the Sacramento valley, protected by green hills and carpeted by fragrant flowers, stands Anderson, the metropolis of Anderson Valley. This small city of about fourteen hundred population is situated between the forest-covered hills on the west and the calm flowing, limpid Sacramento river on the east. To the north Mount Shasta rears her snow-crowned summit and our thoughts Hy to the words of llyron, tisubstituting Mount Shasta for Mount Blancj : XVe crowned her long ago, Un a throne of rocks, In a robe of clouds, And a diadem of snow. To the east the now famous volcano, Mount Lassen, catches the first rays of the rising sun and bedecks herself with gorgeous colors. When the volcanic ash is thrown into the air the rays of the sun make the clouds look like the terrible Flames from some red hot furnace. The surrounding hills look blue in the distance and as the eye comes nearer to the city the hills change to a deep refreshing green. The cruel. bounding, turbulent Sacramento river of the mountains becomes calm. quiet and beautiful by the time it has reached Anderson. The splash of the red salmon and the scream of the water birds are the only sounds one hears in this peaceful place. Stretching from the river on both sides and extending from the foothills of the Coast Range to the uplands of the Sierras, with the little city in the center, nestle the productive farms grown famous for the luscious fruits which their owners ship all over the continent. The most productive fruits of the foothill country are the blood-red strawberries and the peaches which seem to have taken their color from the gold hidden in the soil where they grow. Here also may be found the olive rivaling in size and color those of the Holy Land. The favorite fruit of the river bottom is the juicy prune, and after dipping and drying, 'carload after carload is shipped to the larger cities where they are distributed in small amounts to the uttermost ends of the earth. The sun-kissed apricot also forms one of Anderson Valleys most profitable crops. They ripen in the early summer and are then packed in crates and shipped north where they are prized more highly than the gold whose color they resemble. In the early fall the grape forms the important crop and bunches weighing four pounds are numerous. Un the river bottom are also grown large quantities of al falfa. We often see cows standing' knee deep in this rich feed and we later drink the foamy milk and eat the yellow butter with delight because we know it is fresh, clean and healthful. The horses, in most communities called farm plugs, are not .farm plugs to us because they are sleek and shiny and hold their Eight