George Washington High School - Surveyor Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Proud Beginning GENERAL PLANS, ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE The general plans for Washington called for a main academic unit, shops, an auditorium, boys ' and girls ' gymnasiums, football field, outdoor tennis and basketball courts, a music conser- vatory, a baseball field, a running track and and a swimming pool. Timothy L. Pflueger, architect of George Washington High School, died almost ten years to the day that Washington celebrated its j tenth anniversary. Mr. Pflue- ger was world-famous in his field, having worked on the San Francisco-Oak- land Bay Bridge, and many of the build- Shown above is the cover of the origi- nal dedi cation program held on November 11, 1940. Mayor Angelo J. Rossi spoke and Mr. J. P. Nourse accepted the school as Superintendent of Schools. ings of the Golden Gate In- ternational Expo- sition of 1939. Union Square Garage was designed by Mr. Pflueger in 1942; Alamo and Jefferson grammar schools, and Roosevelt Jun- ior High School were com- pleted by him before 1930. His later projects were George Washington, then Lincoln High School, and the Science building and gymnasium at San Francisco Junior College. Mr. Beniamino Bufano was originally hired to do the frieze located on the wall of the football stadium, but the work was finished by Sargent Johnson. The ideas of both artists are incorporated in the work. 7

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George Washington ' THE BACKGROUND OF GEORGE WASHINGTON The foresight of San Francisco pioneers is reflected in the total investment for a section of the George Washington High School site, as far back as 1861, when 150 x 240 feet was set aside for school purposes under the provisions of the oustide lands act. Out of this nucleus the remainder of the site was purchased by the Board of Education in 1925. The above paragraph, an excerpt from a program of the Ground Breaking Exercises which took place November 4, 1934, at 31st Avenue and Anza Street, shows that our school was considered, planned for, back in the days when the Richmond district was sand dunes, when George Washington High School was a rock quarry. 1961 — cable cars (or their forerun- ners) were pulled by horses, gold strikes were common occurrences, clipper ships sailed the Pacific; and San Franciscans of that day had the vision to provide for schools, and especially for one particular school, located at what is now 32nd Avenue and Anza Street. Seventy-five years later, in 1936, financed partly by a bond issue, partly by the Federal Government, Washington High School was erected at a cost of approximately $2,000,000. The official George Washington ground- breaking ceremony took place on Novem- ber 4, 1934. Shown above is the cover of the original program. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Edwin A. Lee spoke. Presido, Mission, Galileo and Lowell help with cere- mony. 6

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Former Assistant- Principals For Boys MR. WILLIAM A. WEILAND, 1936-1940 Mr. William A. Weiland was George Washington ' s first dean of boys. He attended Oakland High School and then graduated from the University of California. He served as a captain in World War I and stayed in Europe to help set up the Education Program for the army. Upon his return to the United States he went to Mission High as a teacher. He came to Washington as vice-principal when it opened in 1936. He left Washington in 1940 to become principal of Galileo. Mr. Weiland died in 1944 as the result of an injury obtained from fighting a forest fire. MR. GEORGE M. KLINGNER, 1940-1951 Mr. George M. Klingner, who replaced Mr. Weiland in 1940, graduated from the University of Missouri in 1916, when he received an A.B. degree and a B.S. degree in Education. He completed work for his M.A. degree at the University of California in 1927. After spending five years at Continuation, one year in the classroom and four years at the attendance desk, he went to Roosevelt Junior High to teach Math and English for three years. Six years of teaching at Commerce followed until 1940, when he became the second Dean of Boys here at George Washington High School. MR. KENNETH CASTELLINO, 1955-to date Mr. Kenneth Castellino attended Galileo High School. He graduated from the University of California, taught at Horace Mann Junior High School for one year, and then at Mission High School for seven years. There he taught math, English, drama, and Public Speaking. Mr. Castellino came to George Washington High School in 1955. MR. JASPER A. PERINO, 1951-1955 Mr. Jasper A. Perino graduated from the University of California, where he taught as an assistant for one year. He then became an instructor at the Golden Gate Junior College of San Francisco and at Fresno Technical High School. Mr. Perino first came to George Washington in the Fall of 1938 as a Biology, Chemistry, and Physics teacher. He left in the Spring of 1946 to become Head Counselor at Commerce High, and following that became an assistant in the downtown office of the San Francisco Public Schools. After heading the Science Department at Poly High for two years, he returned to George Washington to replace Mr. George M. Klingner as Dean of Boys. He is now principal of Lowell.