Fullerton Union High School - Pleiades Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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Eehieatiem 'Qin the greater Jfullerton flHniou high Qebool the Staff Iopallp neuirate this issue of the 1BIeiaDes.

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THE GREATER FULLERTON UNION HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE Fullerton Union High School began its career as an institution of learn- ing in the upper rooms of the Fullerton Grammar School building in the year 1893. ln 1906 the school was moved to new quarters on VVest Com- monwealth Avenue. The average daily attendance at this time numbered sixty-five. ln 1911, at the time of the completion of the Manual Arts build- ing, the main edifice was destroyed by fire. The school was moved to its present site in 1912. Its student body at this time numbered less than two hundred. Since 1914 the new garage, polytechnic building, and new domestic science and arts building have been added to the main group. There was not provided, however, a building program adequate to cope with the one hundred per cent increase in enrollment which has occurred every five years since 1906. There are now 735 students enrolled in the High School and 176 in the Fullerton junior College. To make provision for this extraordinary increase, the Board of Trustees has embarked upon an extensive building program that will take care of an enrollment of 1500 students. If the present rate of increase continues, the 1500-mark will be reached in ten years or less. The program provides for: 1. The addition of a library wing to the east side of the study hall, with special rooms for reference work and debat- ing. 2. A wing to the west side of the study hall, in which will be found the student body and the principal's executive and administrative offices, and also rest rooms for boys and for girls. 3. Three south-east classroom buildings to be joined by a series of ten classrooms to the rear. Three south-west buildings to be joined by laboratories and lecture rooms to the rear. 5. An enlargement of the gymnasium to provide sufficient dressing rooms, lockers, showers, and floor space for girls. 6. The remodeling of the present audito- rium into a music department, and the erection of a new auditorium suffi- ciently large to provide for this growth. 7. A swimming pool is also planned as a part of the building program. The architecture will all be of the Spanish mission style. The long archway, now in construction, passing in front of the study hall across the en- tire campus, from the English building on the east to the chemistry building on the west, will be one of the beautiful features of the new building groups. When the whole program is complete, Fullerton Union High School will take its place at the head of the fine high schools of the state. THANKS The editor takes this opportunity to thank all those persons who by their interest and help have aided in making possible this issue of the Pleiades. We wish to express very great appreciation of the kindness of Mr. VVins- low, the Los Angeles architect engaged in the planning of our new build- ings, who contributed the unusually fine drawing of the Greater Fullerton Union High School to be found in the forepart of this Annual. five fig,