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

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This school bus, the first bus built in Fulierton, was made in John Gardiner ' s Blacksmith Shop. Fulierton Union High School District was the first district in the United States to have school bus service. We hope that here, within the frame covering the 1958 Annual Pleiades, we have placed a true picture of our school. Included in the picture are some of the school ' s sixty-five years of history. We feel that each member of the stu dent body should learn some of that history, and we hope each will be proud to know it. Therefore, let us view the past. Soon after July 5, 1887, the birthday of Fulierton, a petition was sent to the supervisors of Los Angeles County in order to form a Fulierton School District. The petition granted, school opened in September of that year with Edwin Clark as principal. A daily average of forty students is shown by the annual school report for that year. In 1892 W. R. Carpenter canvassed the homes in North- ern Orange County urging students to continue their secondary education. During the summer of the same year William Starbuck and Alex McDermont surveyed the area in order to determine its educational needs. Consideration of the establishment of a high school for Fulierton was made official in 1893 when elections were held. The first two elections were unsuccessful simply because of a lack of voters at the polls. In the third election, due to the efforts of three men in the community who insured enough votes by hiring men to go to the polls, sixteen votes were cast, and FUHS came into being. The earliest preserved edition of the Weekly Pleiades is the one pic- tured above, published in 1914. It is now bound in a book containing other early editions and is kept in the school library. Pictured above is an announcement of the commencement exercises of Fuller- ton High ' s second graduating class.

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' J ' -.- ' • - This brick building on the corner of Wilshire and Lawrence was the Fullerton Union High School building. first The first FUHS annual, The Lucky Thirteen , was named for the thirteen graduating students of the class- of 1905. It sold for ten cents. The class pin of 1906. The first Orange County Superintendent of Schools, J. P. Greeley. This Fullerton Union School building, built in 1906, was on West Commonwealth where Amerige Park is now located.

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s. ' - H n m -x. In the past 65 years, Fullerton High has devel- oped from a student body of eight housed in one upstairs room of the first elementary school building, pictured at the left (now the site of Wilshire Junior High), to our present high school with a student body of 2500. But our large growth and expansion would not have been possible without the many long hours of work contributed by the school ' s founding fathers and early participants. These people, together with all the students and faculty who have been connected with FUHS, created a tradition that has been enhanced rather than forgotten by the years — the tradition that is Fullerton High School. This tradition belongs to each one of us — it is ours to preserve for the generations to follow. And to our traditions, made of dedi- cated personalities and memorable events, we dedicate the 1958 Annual Pleiades. What could better represent our school and what it stands for than the words of our Alma Mater? We are proud of all thy prowess, Fullerton! And we thy colors bravely bear, We will be thy loyal subjects ever,- Joy and grief we alike will with thee share. We have watched thy progress ever With hearts so full of love for thee; We rejoice that in the years before you Thy future ever brighter still we see. Men of F.H.S., now grasp your standard — Ne ' er let the glorious emblem fall, For our red and white must win the conflict For the honor of the school so dear to all. CHORUS Oh, F.H.S., they name we love, And ever staunch and true you ' ll find us; We ' ll stand by thee through all eternity, The red and white, so true! — written by Lilah Esmay, Class of 1912