Downey High School - Volsung Yearbook (Downey, CA)

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Page 4 Foreword 4 OMING events cast theur shad ows before lt us doubtful however that anyone V except the most optsmustuc Chamber of Commerce booster would have guessed un IOOZ that the shadow cast by the furst buuldung of Downey Hugh School would foretell the comung event un l9S2 of three hugh schools un Downey wuth a total enrollment of 2800 and wuth further expansuon be xond the shadow of a doubt Thus school year l95l 52 marks the begunnung of the second half century ln the hustory of our school Orugunally called Los Nletos Valley Unuon Hugh School ut was establushed August l6 l9Ol and was the eleventh hugh school un Los Angeles County The dustruct was composed of fuve grammar schools wuth one trustee from each school composung the school board Furst board Downey Wulluam Carruthers from Gallatun Sam Adams from Old Ruver and G M Clark from New Ru er ln September l906 New Ruver Dustruct became part of Alameda Dustruct Students outsude the dustruct paud S35 per year tuutuon The faculty ofthe furst school was composed of A E Farungton pruncupal and Muss Gertrude Smuth assocuate teacher The furst graduates were ln the class of l904 and were Adalane Ball Hazel Ralph Oluver Butler and Gray Skudmore We are undebted to Mrs Aprul Morruson of Downey for thus un formatuon of the early days of the school The faculty today number l lO and thus year s graduatung class wull number 235 On the opposute page you see the pucture of the furst Downey Hugh School buuldung loomung out of the shadowy past un the sky above the present admunustratuon buuldung whuch faces Furestone Boulevard The orugunal buuldung faced Church Street almost exactly where the present boys gym us located Your Volsung thus year commemorates the begunnung of thus new half century un the Iufe of our school wuth the beluef that ut foreshadows greater progress and growth to follow 253 . .,. irc 4 f F Q V . 0 u - f ll u s-'CH lg ' ' 1 I I - , - l I , . - 1 members were J. W. Venable from Alameda, A. L. Ball from I I U 1 ' ' .V ' 1 1 . . , I . . I , A . I I I ' I - . , I . . .

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,ff TABLE OF CONTENTS ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY CLASSES CLUBS SPORTS ACTIVITIES ADVERTISING INDEX Page 3

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Past and Present ,A , if A J. ' 335 Senior H igh School