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

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t T ' ' . - - ' ■ f f ' ' CLASS ' OF IP ,o SENIOR PLAQUE £ ,VER since the first graduating class in 1896, which consisted of two students, Fulierton hiigh School has kept a record of its graduates under the bronze senior plaques that are embedded in the tile corridor. In June the forty-second senior class of about two hundred seventy students will receive diplomas. H The school was started on the grounds of the East Wilshire Elementary School in the red brick building which was recently torn down. High school was held in this building from 1893 to 1906. In 1906 an imposing building was erected and occupied on the present site of the West Commonwealth Park. That building was destroyed in 1911 by fire, and shortly afterwards a large site was bought in the two hundred block on East Chapman Avenue. Buildings were added to the campus from time to time until at the present time the buildings and grounds represent an invest- ment of over two million dollars. Tj The bronze plaque is not the only remembrance the graduating class leaves to its school. Each year the senior class makes a gift to the student body. One class helped to buy the clock in the tower: another gave the sun dial; others planted trees. This year our class is donating money for the furnishings of a student body room, which will be acquired later on. T] We all wonder what will happen to the senior plaques when the corridors are filled. Maybe they ' ll start a row on the outer edges of the tiles, or maybe they ' ll build more corridors. 30