Hanford High School - Janus Yearbook (Hanford, CA)

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block Then belonged To The disTricT. A small building was laTer erecTed on The norTh- wesT corner oT The block Tor The accommodaTion of new sTudies. Many minor buT necessary maTTers oT arrangemenT had To be meT as The school grew. A sTable Tor horses had a place on The loT Tor a Time buT laTer was replaced by one on land some disTance easT oT The school premises. When auTomobiles replaced horses in bringing sTudenTs To school, a garage was provided. Even The waTer supply presenTed a problem. During many meeTings The TrusTees con- sidered Tanks, pumps, windmills, engines, and elecTric moTors, and Tinally decided To give a conTracT To a Mr. KurTz Tor Turnishing waTer aT The raTe oT Ten cenTs per I,00O gallons. As The buildings aged and became inadeguaTe, and The need Tor space Tor physical educaTion and aThleTics became acuTe, The demand Tor a new planT and a new locaTion became urgenT. The adopTion ThroughouT The sTaTe oT a new physical educaTion pro- gram was a sTrong TacTor in making The new premises necessary. The TrusTees called an elecTion Tor November I2, I9I9, Tor The purpose OT voTing bonds amounTing To S350,000.00. The bonds carried, and arrangemenTs proceeded Tor The erecTion oT The presenT planT, an adeguaTe TracT oT land having been procured. BeTore The work was compleTed, iT became evidenT ThaT The Tunds would noT be suTTi- cienT, and anoTher issue oT bonds was soughT. On February 3 a proposal To issue bonds in The sum oT Sl50,000.00 was voTed down by a margin oT 48 voTes, buT The TrusTees called a new elecTion To be held on April 8. AT ThaT Time The amounT asked Tor was only 590,000 buT, wiTh a very much heavier poll, The issue Tailed by ISI voTes. No TurTher eTTorT was made To raise The money by bonds, buT The necessary Tunds were obTained Through The regular channels oT revenue and by The sale oT The grounds and The old building, which broughT 530,000 Since The occupaTion oT The main building in I92l, an almosT conTinuous program oT consTrucTion has been necessary. The gymnasium and The main shop building were Tol- lowed by The TirsT uniTs oT The sTorage garage and Haag Hall. FurTher uniTs oT The old sTorage garage were added, and The Tarm mechanics building was consTrucTed. Finally came The new sTorage garage, which is new This year. The laying oT cemenT walks and curbs, The paving oT The sTreeT Through The campus, consTrucTion oT Tennis courTs, and The erecTion oT Tencing have been some oT The numer- ous proiecTs which Tollowed The original grading and landscaping oT The grounds. OUT- sTanding among proiecTs oT This Type was The consTrucTion oT The aThleTic sTadium, which was Tinished in l935. ATTer Principal E. T-T. Walker leTT The school in l908, There was a Ten-year period during which Three diTTerenT men served as principals-l-larry Rode Trom l908 To I9I0, T. J. Roesman Trom I9I0 To I9I3, and Harry ShaTer Trom l9l3 To l9I8. ln l9l8 came Jacob L. Neighbor, The presenT principal. The many accomplishmenTs of The school and iTs unquesTioned high sTanding among schools oT iTs class are due in a large measure To The high caliber oT The men who have been iTs leaders, parTicularly The TirsT and laTesT, boTh oT whom served many years. Grounds of Hanvord Union High School, l92I THU' ut? 52 llllil EE...

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The Town Band, IB96 souTh. The l-lanTord band led To The scene a marching conTingenT in which were rep- resenTed The 6.A.R., The Boys' Brigade, and The pupils oT The school. Clara Viney, on behalf oT The pupils, presenTed a Tlag To The school. A. W. Lane presidenT oT The board of TrusTees, made a speech oT accepTance. America was sung, There was a Tlag saluTe, and David Gamble handed over The lceys To The building. Then Tollowed an address by J. W. Graham, CounTy SuperinTendenT of Schools, and addresses by Franlc Dodge and The Reverend J. L. Blaclc. The school sang LeT The l-lills and Vales Resoundf' and Earle Fisher reciTed Our l-ligh School, a poem by The Reverend l-l. W. WalTz oT Grange- ville. ln January, I896, Miss Phoebe Lee l-losmer was added To The TaculTy, making The Third member. During This period more elemenTary disTricTs were being added To The high school union disTricT, and enrollmenT increased To such an exTenT ThaT addiTional space was needed. WiTh ThaT need in view, The TrusTees purchased Tour more adiacenT loTs and called upon The disTricT To voTe bonds Tor SI0,000 To build an annex. On February l8, l905, The issue was deTeaTed, buT in a second elecTion, April 21, iT carried. l-lowever, The bonds could noT be sold because no elecTion had been held in The Oalcvale DisTricT. ATTer a Third elecTion no buyer could be Tound who would Talce The bonds because The Oalcvale DisTricT had refused To hold an elecTion. The board Then decided To ask The CounTy Supervisors To levy a special Tax Tor build- ing The annex, which was Then badly needed Tor commercial classes. The money was raised in ThaT way, and a dwelling on Elm STreeT was used unTil The annex was compleTed in l909. ln I9IO The loTs Tacing DouTy STreeT were purchased, wiTh The resulT ThaT The enTire Fresh-air Taxi Service of The I92O's

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LIOO OO OO AOO 300 OO Mr. Rode, fhe fhird principal, came fo Hanford from Efna High School. During his sfay fhe original building was being enlarged and fhe old barns were removed from fhe grounds. He assisfed in organizing fhe C.T.A., and was a member of fhaf organizafion's firsl' Council of Educafion. ln Hanford he revived infer-school afhlefics and sfarfed foofball. He also organized fhe firsf class in agriculfure, fhe second in fhe sfafe. Mr. Roesman had had a long experience in fhe profession before coming fo Hanford, and he confinued for many years afferward A newspaper sfafed in l927 fhaf he had fhen been feachung for fhlrfy seven years Mr Shafer came fo Hanford wnfh an impressive scholasfic record Many bug names in educaflon were among his professors af Harvard and Columbia He added manual framing and biology fo fhe curriculum Affer leaving Hanford he became Superunfend enf of Schools af Bakersfield and lafer was Assisfanf Superunfendenf of fhe Los Angeles schools A+ fursf 'rhe course of sfudy involved only fhree years of high school affendance The class of I907 was fhe lasf fo graduafe under fhe fhree year arrangemenf and as a re sulf of fhe change fhe graduafung class of l908 consusfed of only four sfudenfs Throughouf fhe years sublecfs and courses show a sfeady change fo fif fhe changing modes of life Af flrsf fhere was The general academic course sfressing classncal sfudnes buf in fhe second year fhe commercial course was added Vocafional sublecfs came in gradually as did also addnfnonal culfural courses Wufh fhe enormous expansion of fhe physical educaflon program affer fhe War of l9l4 l9l8 fhe curriculum had so de veloped as fo saflsfy all fhe demands placed upon a modern high school A perusal of exisflng records impresses upon fhe reader fhe facl' fhaf Hanford Hugh School has done many fine fhungs fhroughouf fhe years If is a maffer of regref fhaf fhe lumlfaflons of space forbid fhe vlfalxzlng of fhus accounf wufh many scenes of sfudenf acfivufy buf fhe pages of fhis volume fhrough picfures and prnnf malce such refer ence as is possible fo people and evenfs G e C f-'fl 5 OWIVWQ YQGFIY enrollmenf average daily aflendance number of feachers and num er ofgraducxfes from IQI3 fo fhe presenf H G 0 ll eoc er 'X Z1 Egg! ,f-13229 L2'Jx?L'1f 34 Sv-f In! gil 35? 60 TKO EO Wax fall ra ily endian 63 L9 i9I3I11l5 I6 ll I8 I9 EO EI 22 232425 26 2728 Z9303l 32 333435363738 3940 Al 42 QZCWHL This includes The whole force Principal librarian and niqhf school 7 principal, noneofwhom do any Ieachmg S3 The rowlh of The School, l892-W42 - Mr. Neighbor has raouafed 30I4 of These h li ' , ' , la . I 220' I I I3 535' ry d N S 1200 UO 9 E fs' .-B2 fliBiW'55 T Ili '5 ' X mi ffm II -QL 3 M X if u A ' -S ' ' X f, Iwo MD, V5 M3 M 'iss fs' is IOOO 42+ 75 We gg5,fg2 9 1200, I I 'U 3 38 e '32 ,'4fa'4N OO 31,1 5 VH 1.1 ' ,ag f ' ,Fag- s , 800 155: .2 3545835 M 2 .fvlwi I 'E f , .lxmr ffm I OO I 80+ C 'D 707 ni yin ml. ' 'Q X H5 'fu 97,7 700 Tr- ' ' . '12 f 'V dial-f ' Al' W7 riff' f 1' W' u Ftfag fm ,gk FE 9 AV fn ,I GN 7 ,Q -K 600 5' .B iw fs , few er f 42 rj V529 , 1341 - T59 A gif ll' ,ELZD 'ff X424 6 ,bfi V s c0,2f11s f1 f 'Sc' .428 eg I2 12 3947 fsf -3 sg. n Illn + E ff X X 0 2 Brief 256 Vf as f' TW fe ' ' ' - ,ff I 2 4,59 ' ,I 5-3 I ,f ,bg nl lg8x'I70 '- loo 'N' I2 , .