Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

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Long as there glows a star So long will I love thee, II heaven’s blue dome afar. Mv f’lovordale! (fthrorriiale ONG, long ago, the Indians called Sonoma County “The Valley of the Moon,” and this undoubtedly was a correct description, brief and beautiful, poetic and musical. With his nature- trained mind the Indian could discern the crescent-shaped outline of the county, and then it was easy for him to think of the moon, serene and beautiful, shining over this charming valley. In this highly favored county Cloverdale has an honored place. It is beautiful for situation, the joy and pride of all who dwell there. In “The Valley of the Moon” there are few places, if any, which can surpass Cloverdale for natural beauty. Indeed, travelers tell us that no lovelier spot is to be found in this land or in other lands. The town is situated in a natural park, and to look down upon it from Heald’s Hill seems like looking not upon a closely-built and populous center, but upon beautiful homes nestling peacefully in ample space in a picturesque wooded plateau. With its balmy breezes, its purifying rains, its exemption from fogs, swamps, and malaria, its climate is superb. It is a natural sanitarium. If one is poetical and says, “Give me a draught from the crystal spring When the burning sun is high,” he can obtain his desire without any trouble, for water clear as crystal, pure and refreshing, is conveyed from limpid streams to the homes of the people, while medicinal waters from the mineral springs may very easily be obtained. Fruit grows in abundance, including grapes, peaches, apricots, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, cherries, apples, pears, plums, olives, lemons, pomelos and oranges. Cloverdale is sometimes called “The Orange City,” and with the exception of Oroville, it is said to be the most northerly point in the world where oranges can be grown, thanks being due to its sheltering, well-wooded and ever-attractive hills. The public schools include a Union High School and a graded Grammar School, and they are both in a highly efficient state, with an excellent staff of teachers. Many pupils who have passed through the schools have distinguished themselves in later life and reflected lustre on the Cloverdale schools. The social and intellectual life of the community is well maintained, there being a Woman’s Improvement Club, a Literary and Debating Society, and a free Library, while fraternal societies are well represented. There is also ample room for the citizens to cultivate public worship in the many churches which adorn the town. The Creator has done great things for the people whose good fortune it is to dwell in a vale so fair. God’s finger touched, but did not press, In making Cloverdale. H. A. m

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OUR HILLS (View across the southeast corner ol Cloverdale)

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IParultif... Francis A. White PRINCIPAL B. L. University of California, 1908 Hanna Pierson Ph. M. University of Ottawa, 1905 Berlin University Flora A. Bagley A. B. Stanford, 1912 M. A. Stanford, 1913