Lemoore High School - Nuntius Yearbook (Lemoore, CA)

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W H REILLY District Superintendent l0ll0eI 5 of the jutufe The San Joaquin Valley was once lightly sprinkled with Spanish outposts and criss crossed with Spanish trolls This Valley is a part of California The Pioneer State The Spanish had the will to try the unknown and the courage to conquer all obstacles in the path of progress The Senior Class is to be commended for selecting a Spanish theme forthe T952 Nuntius The Lemoore High School has attempted to do its share to keep verse deserts and surmount mountains wherein knowledge and trained in telligence must take the place of the water bag and patient oxen We are rightfully proud ofthe great past which is largely responsible for the progress and achievement of the present We should strive to have the faith and courage of the early Spanish explorers to advance the frontiers of freedom and to hold them secure for the future The educational program provides opportunities for the development of leadership scholarship workmanship and creative abilities May the graduates of Lemoore High School have the faith and courage to be pioneers in building a better world alive the pioneer spirit. The pioneers of tomorrow must be equipped to trans-

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,,,.pounv uri'-'13, r1 s LHThO WHH sellMH VWB Dllcd goarc! of 3'bt5fe26 The class of l952 apprecrotes the generous sacrlfrce of tnme and effort on the part of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Lemoore Umon High School In developmg for us an outstanding educational rnstrtutron We realize that through therr voluntary servrce and through their careful delrberatson they have determrned the quality and the extent of the educatron we recerve to make us happy and successful leaders of our communrty The architectural plans of the new Agriculture Burldrng soon to be construct ed are further evrdence of theur efforts toward the realrzatron of the expandrng educatronal program to meet our needs Thus frame stucco burldmg wrll mclude three classrooms, a small laboratory, a Irbrary, and shop areas l l - ', l , wr f 4 ,,, ...., . Q .- -ww' V r -,.,u-..-fx:- ' l ' 2 h . s I-J N '- H, 'I'-'11, ,-. W 'xvfyr-A ' ' . . . msen, . . arris,ChairmangRus , ightower, . . urrows,ClerlcgF. . r bury I - I

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gixiagzrafiongi fo Cagfornia The Spanish with courage and daring braved the dangers of the great unexplor- ed area of Valle de Los Tulles in T776. That year Jose Joaquin Moraga came from Monterey and reached a beautiful river, which he called the San Francisco. His son, Gabriel came in T804-O5, found the river, and renamed it the San Joaquin in honor of his father. I'-le discovered another beautiful river and named it the River of the Holy Kings. In time the valley became known as the San Joaquin and the second river the Kings. These men were here because the Fran- ciscan monks, under the leadership of Juni- pero Serra, chose to establish missions lSan Diego, July 9, l769l and to attempt to convert natives to Christianity. Nearly all the missions were established in a span of thirty years. Q LEONARD R. WARD PRINCIPAL California, over a period of years following the establishment of the missions, con- tinued to be a land of exploration. Adventurers traversed farther south down the length and breadth of the San Joaquin Valley . The trail led to La Tache, now Lemoore, so named for Lovern Lee Moore in l875. Cow- boys disappeared into the grasslands and returned at intervals for supplies, recreation, and companionship. Children played on boxes used by the vaqueros for their card games where our high school now stands, on the original location of La Tache. The Spanish rule of California terminated with the last Spanish governor, Governor Pico, in l845. The some desire for exploration which brought Americans to California under the leadership of Captain Jedediah S. Smith in l828, later brought other Ameri- cans: trappers seeking furs, miners searching for gold, the cattlemen and the sheepmen, then the traders, and finally the permanent settlers, whose vision of an agricultural em- pire in California has become a reality in our State, whose history began over four hun- dred years ago when Fortuno Jimenez, sent out by Cortez, in T533 discovered a new land, which in l539 Captain Francisco de Ullou named California. ! L 'ff' fra ii? -ff F , omg. swf Hld C T A d e Secretory LEFT TO REG'-iT i .a urher, ec ant I R d S yt M R Ily a A o ntcft, Kc' me Northcrner, Secretory to Mr. Ward.