Arcata High School - Advance Yearbook (Arcata, CA)

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--- S THE ADVANCE gg? -if The iew rom ur School f , . , . . ,, aiu Our High School is situated cn a hill just north of Arcata. The main build- ing was built in 1918 and two years later we built our gymnasium. The gymnasium is one of the best in the county and viill seal: approximately eight hundred people, All of the buildings, with the exception of The High School the Manual Arts, are faced on the outside with bricks. About a year after we built our gymnasium we built a new tennis court which is alsc cre of the best in the county. Next year plans are being made to build a new building in place of the present manual arts shopg also our track is to be lengthened to make a quarter-mile track, and the baseball diamond is to be moved off the football field. This will permit the field to be all turf and will make it very much more attractive in appearance besides giving us a better football field. The view from our High TT: 'ff' H T School is very beautiful. To the south lies Humboldt Bay where c ,g. f ififi' 1 1 li! Arcata ships its products, the mostimportant of which is lum- . i.r,y 1 y ber, to all parts of the world. iw, Looking directly west you see a . vast body of water known as the Pacific Ocean. On a stormy day the breaking waves dash upon the beach throwing a spray of water very high, but on a quiet day the deep blue water appears to be a curtain separating the earth from the sky. At the foot of the hill where our school stands, passes the Redwood Highway on which tourists from all over the United States travel in summer time. Looking a little farther out one sees the ranches and many green fields which paint a very beautiful picture. This gives us our second great industry--dairy- ing. To the east lie the rugged Coast Range mountains with their HumlJ0ldf Bay

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THE ADVANCE 4425441 gone much beyond the 200 mark . Seven years have gone by since the foregoing was written and many changes have taken place in that period. The number of teachers has in- creased to eighteen, the enrollment has passed the 350 mark, additional ground has been purchased, and additional buildings erected. The former high school lot was sold, and at the same time the half block adjoining the tract first purchased for the new high school and bordering on 16th street was purchased. Later the Wible house burned, and last year the ground on which it stood was purchased, bringing the total acreage of the site to sixteen. A heating plant and then a gymnasium were built. Plans are now complete to erect a building the coming summer to take care of the shops. and to furnish additional class rooms for band, agriculture, mechan- ical drawing, etc. The purchase of the Wible property has made it possible to lay out a track one-fourth instead of one-fifth mile in length .When the plans for grading are completed, we can have a baseball diamond and a turf football field both--within the area of the track. An important change has been made also in the boundaries of the -high school district. Fourteen elementary districts were added to the original four that made up the first union. The district now extends from the pen- insula up the coast past Trindad, and eastward to the crest of the mcun- tains this side of Redwood Creek. Transportation is furnished by the Arcata and Mad River R.R. and by the three busses operated by the high school. .Ana A logging train near Arcata Union High School

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Nb-gy THE ADVANCE rigid! ----W A Dairy Ranch heavy forests of Redwoods and their white snow peaks. Many deer and other wild game may be found in these mountains. The streams and rivers too are filled with many kinds of fish, which give pleasure to out-door sports. g c c .. Standing out against the slope is i the Humlool-alt Slate Teachers College which is an attrac- tion for Northern California. To the southeast one sees the many houses and large buildings that form the city l l le iii of Arcata. ' City of Arcata Our High 2: p I g School is sit- V W' , A ,l., li V K , uated in the ' very best place available at a point dc-minah ing the hay, and the valley and also afford- ing a good FW' view of the mountains. Humboldt State Teachers College --Louis Pontoni