David Starr Jordan High School - Trailblazer Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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LONG BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS DAVID STARR JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL SAEO ATLANTIC AVENUE LONG BEACH. CALIFORNIA To the Graduating Class of 1936: Your class has had a most interesting history. One that will probably never be duplicated. You started at Lindbargh in September. 193Q as the first 7-B's. No buildings had yet been erected and the students were farmed out between Grant and Adams. When the new buildings were finished. they were the pride of Long Beach. In 1933 you graduatedg-again in bungalows. The earthquake saw to that. In September, 1933, you started as the first 10-3 of Jordan High. This time in the North Long Beach Y, M, C A, buildings. Pioneering had now become a habit. so that the next two years had no hardships to offer you had not already experienced, In your last year the new units were started at the Jordan site, and the term ended with everybody in bun- galows or permanent structures. Possibly those very handicaps on the physical side gave some social and spiritual compensations that other classes will miss. Undoubtedly your associations with each other and with the faculty have been closer and therefore more undern standing than with other classes. In Jordan you have been seniors for three years; You have made traditions and set the tone of the school, Other classes will thank you for the work you have done You will have regrets at leaving, we will be sorry to see you go But you w'rll also enter upon a larger sphere of activity and we know that you will acquit yourselves well and honorably. We who are left behind will be watching from afar. lending our spiritual aid, Your success will be our happiness. and we shall always gladly welcome you back. JOHN W WILSON, Principal.