Elk Grove High School - Elk Yearbook (Elk Grove, CA)

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EARLE R. NICHOLLS Music MARTHA PRATHER COM PRICE Commercial Home Economics FACULTY L ANITA RISDON G-LADYS O. SAVAGE Languages Secreiary Freshman Adviser Recorder FLORENCE SUMNER HELEN SWANTNER Science Commercial Sophomore Adviser FRANK TIBBETTS CARL w1N1'5R Vocaiionai Agriculiure Social Science i

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'KT i HERBERT S. BERRY MABLE W. BARRON ALFRED CROFTS Farm Shop English English Public Speaking Journalism Junior Adviser FACULTY HELEN HOUSEHOLDER MAR'ON.M'X Ar, Science Library Home Economics ROBERT T. MCGREGOR ALFRED F. LAWRENCE Boys' Hea ifh Ed ucarion M H1 i' a ema 'Cs Senior Adviser 'F' MYRTLE KLOSS BETH MURpHY Enqiish Girls' Healfh Educafion History

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B. T. BROWN ADOLPH KLOSS P. B. SMITH ARTHUR BUTLER HARVEY CARLISLE MESSAGE FROM THE TRUSTEES The building proiecT Tor The Elk Grove High School is TasT ap- proaching The criTical sTage. The presenT sTrucTure, erecTed in I923 Tor The enrollmenT oT Two hundred and TiTTy pupils, is now Torced To accommodaTe Tour hundred: and a canvas oT The eigh+h grade graduaTes puTs The number Tor nexT year very deTiniTely above ThaT. The Trend oT The Times away Trom The old Tashioned large Tamily, plus The economic condiTions culminaTing iusT now in The depres- sion, has very maTerially checked The raTe oT increase oT The school populaTion. A naTion-wide survey oT school sTaTisTics shows The peak To have been passed in many localiTies. However, California Taces The Tollowing unique condiTions: The dif- TiculTy of making a living has puT The populaTion on The move To an exTenT ThaT has noT been True since early pioneer days: The policy oT The governmenT To Talce people oTT The land ThaT is proved To be on The margin oT culTivaTion7 a climaTe very righTly Tamous and enTicingg Treedom Trom such calamiTies as The dusT sTorms: greaTer elecTriTicaTion Than any oTher sTaTe in The Union: improved irriga- Tion condiTions in The Los Angeles area, cenTral and norThern sec- Tions. These, wiTh oTher condiTions, will prove To The ThoughTTul person ThaT CaliTornia is due Tor a greaT inTlux OT Tamilies, and a consequenT increase OT school enrollmenT. Upon These ToundaTions The Board oT TrusTees is Torced To consider The erecTion of a new building To be paid Tor in a meThod easiesT To be meT by The disTricT. IT is probable ThaT governmenT Tunds will be made available To Tinance such a sTrucTure.