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

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NNs PURPOSE During The pasT year, The Normans oT Beverly I-ligh have esTablished Themselves in Their sTrengThened and beauTiTied buildings. Since such an improvemenT has been made in The reconsTrucTion oT The buildings and in The landscaping oT The surrounding grounds, we may pause and survey The wonderTul work which has been carried ouT Tor The beTTermenT oT our school. lT is a TiTTing Time Tor us To do so, because iT is The TwenTy-TiTTh anniversary oT The Tounding oT The Beverly l-lills School SysTem. For our Theme, The sTaTT oT The WaTchTower Tor T938 has chosen To review The TwenTy-Tive years oT ex- isTence oT The School SysTem. PicTorially as well as ediTorially will This Theme be celebraTed ThroughouT The boolc. lvlrs. Alice O. I-lunnewell, a member oT The TirsT Board oT EducaTion oT Beverly l-lills, was chosen To wriTe The Tore- word. She has waTched The growTh oT our ciTy and has seen Tive schools rise To Talce The place oT The one small school which sTood here a guarTer oT a cenTury ago, and she has played an imporTanT parT in helping To build The ToundaTions Tor our presenT sysTem oT educaTion. Mr. Edward J. l-lummel, who has been The superinTen- denT oT The Beverly I-lills School SysTem since I925, has wriTTen Tor us a brieT hisTory oT The sysTem. Since iTs acguisiTion by The Beverly l-lills School SysTem. Beverly l-ligh has made huge sTrides Torward. IT is our earnesT hope and desire ThaT her TirsT TwenTy-Tive years will be as Tull oT success and achievernenT as Those oT her paTer Tamilias -The Beverly l-lills School SysTem! WU, Wm, EDITOR

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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