Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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Www WV, M W' 0' FOREWORD SaluTaTions and congraTulaTions To The graduaTes oT The Anniversary Class oT I938 OT The Beverly T-lills School DisTricT. WhaT magic in The capTion- TwenTy-TiTTh Anniversary! IT connoTes To one ThaT someThing in human endeavor has come To TruiTiong ThaT The rooTs oT organized eTTorT have gone deep inTo The ToundaTion oT Tamily liTe, business inTeresTs, or civic welTare. When one considers The imporT oT The TwenTy-TiTTh anniversary oT marriage, one musT conclude ThaT cerTain aTTribuTes have made such a long period OT companionship en- durable. The TwenTy-TiTTh anniversary oT a business or proTessional organizaTion emphasiz- es The TacT ThaT TundamenTal unswerving principles oT good business have been observed. This year, nineTeen hundred ThirTy-eighT, is The TwenTy-TiTTh anniversary OT The Tounding oT The Beverly l-lills School DisTricT. As a member oT ThaT small civic group oT ciTizens ThaT has made This anniversary possible, may l sTaTe ThaT The iniTial board was composed OT individuals oT unimpeachable characTer and successTul business and proTes- sional experience. They were imbued wiTh The highesT ideals oT The True meaning oT edu- caTion and a deTerminaTion To sTaTT our TirsT school wiTh Teachers oT disTincTion, scholar- ship and civic mindedness. Such graniTe sTandards gave This school disTricT a Tirm Toun- daTion upon which subsecguenT school boards were To expand and sTrengThen. GraduaTes oT The Class oT IQ38: You are now compleTing The TirsT major uniT in The span OT human exisTence. ThaT you may enTer This combaT oT living wiTh inTelli- gence, you have been moulding The armor oT characTer. Upon This shield, Through various media OT discipline, you have engraved honesTy, responsibiliTy, co-operaTion, loy- alTy, and courTesy. As you go TorTh To play your parT upon The sTage oT liTe, use This equipmenT which you have creaTed. Finally when all your yesTerdays are pasT, The lv1asTer oT all good worlcs shall say, You have ToughT a good TighTq you have Tinished The course: enTer Thou inTo The ioy oT Thy Lord. fl

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SETH M. BOND W. STANWOOD FIELD JOSEPHINE H. EITGER JOHN F. STARR EUGENE SWARZWALD PresidenT SSCVSTGVY CECIL D. HARDESTY EDWARD J. HUMMEL AssT. SuperinTendenT SuperinTendenT BEVERLY HILLS BOARD OF EnucATloN HISTORY The year I938 marks The TwenTy-TiTTh anniversary oT The Beverly Hills School DisTricT. The disTricT was creaTed in l9I3 by The CounTy Board oT Supervisors aT The reguesT oT residenTs oT The communiTy. Mrs. Alice O. Hunnewell, who served so eTTecTively Tor many years on The Board oT TrusTees, was largely responsible Tor iTs esTablishmenT. AT ThaT Time Beverly Hills had less Than TiTTy Tamilies. The only school was a one- room building in ColdwaTer Canyon. In IQI4 The HawThorne school siTe was acquired and a building erecTed. ln The TwenTies The growTh oT Beverly Hills was very rapid necessiTaTing The building oT Beverly VisTa School in I924 The EI Rodeo School in T927 The Hugh School The same year builT and operaTed by The Los Angeles board oT EducaTion and The Horace Mann School in l929 Beverly Hills was a parT oT The Los Angeles CiTy Hugh School DisTricT Trom I92I To I935 ln This laTTer year Tollow ing a voTe oT separaTlon by The people oT Beverly Hills The local Board oT EducaTion Took over The lurlsdichon oT The High School ln T936 our elemenTary and high school disTrlcTs were merged inTo The Beverly Hills Unihed School DrsTr1cT The pasT TwenTy Tive years has seen The dlsTrlcT grow in enrollmenT Trom a handTul oT children in a one room school To an enrollmenT oT 2325 in The elemenTary schools and I543 sTu denTs in The hugh school Erom The lncephon oT The d1sTricT To The presenT The highesT educaTional goals have been The obIecTive oT Those enTrusTed wrTh The operahon oT The schools 00

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