Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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llamesfot Ptipils In Httendance During the Year l908'Q09. Anderson, Harold Barkley, James M. Barkley, Joseph Bonnickson, Iva Bonnickson, Frank Brendt, Leland Cakebread, Vvilliam Chadwick, Edith Collis, Bessie Cook, Zilla E. Crow, Ethel Dainty, Esther Davis, Eva Ellsworth, Ruth Geddes, Marguerite Griswold, Nellie IJ M M Howard, Ellis L. Heck, Edna Helm, Madge Heidorn, Edna Johnson, Jessie Kennedy, May Lemoin, Everett Miller, Rose Moody, John G. Morgans, Willie Murphy, Arthur Murphy, Katie Murphy, William O'Hara, Charles Pemberton, DeWitt Richardson, DeWitt faculty Shafer, Earl B. Shafer, Ray Sheddrick, Arthur D. Sheddrick, Minnie M Siple, Olive Schroder, Morgan Sresovich, Camille Swift, Albert Swift, Byron Swift, Judson Wallace, Robert Wallace. Ray White, Margaret Wristen, Claude VV. W. PETTIT. Principal: Commercial Arithmetic. History MARY BAIRD. Latin, English. ALICE BIXBY, Latin, English, Commercial Branches. MARY NEWBY. Mathematics, Science. German

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES. NAME DISTRICT ADDRESS H. BOXNICKSON.. . . . . . Brentwood Brentwood S. D. JOHNSON.. Byron Byron O C. WRIST!-IN.. Iron House Oakley ANDREW SMITH. Deer Valley Brentwood JOHN A. HOBBS Sand Mound Knlghtsen HENRY MI-JHRTEXS.. . . . . Hot Springs Byron OFFICERS OF NAME JOHN GEDDES.. NYM. DAINTY... FRED HEIDORX. C. P. HORR.. . . C. A, FRENCHN THE BOARD DISTRICT Excelsior Liberty Lcue Tree Oakley Eden Plain H. BONNICKSON, Presldentl C. A. FRENCH. Clerk: ANDREW SMITH. ADDRESS Byron Brentwood Oakley Oakley Knightsex:

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INTFQODUCTORY The Llberty Unlon Hlgh School was established 1902 by the unlon of the several dlstrlcts named on another page, together with Jersey distrlct, which lapsed ln 1908. The hulldlng. now occupied, was erected by the hlgh school dls- trlct ln 1908. The school has made a steady growth from lts organlzatlon. AIM: While the school does not stand elther as a polytechnlc and trade school or as a college preparatory school, it alms to offer lts students such courses of study and such quallty of instruction as wlll prepare them to enter into the unlversltles of the State or to take up thc ordlnary occupations open to them with the best prepara- tlon the Hlgh School can glve them during the time they spend here. Wlth this purpose ln vlew every effort ls made to form right thlnklng, that the actlons repeated may become right hablts and so form a strong character. EQUIPMENT: The School possesses a good and growing equipment ln the shape of an excellent reference llbrary and maps for classlcal, historical, llterary and Sclentltlc studles. a well equlpped chemical laboratory, and expect to have the physical laboratory ready for the com- with desks and the most modern desks for the Commercial lng year. The school owns flve modern typewrlters Department. ENTRANCE: Graduates of the grammar schools of Contra Costa County are admitted without examination. Graduates of other schools of equal rank are admitted upon presentation of satisfactory evidence. Students without satisfactory credentials may be admltfed to full standlng upon acceptably passlng the Hlgh School examlnatlon given just before school opens lu the fall. GRADUATION: Students who acceptahly complete the four Qears course are glven a dlploma of graduation and those graduates who pursue a course of study that is acceptable to the State Unlverslty and whose work ls of sufficiently hlgh quality vtlll be admitted to the University without examination, upon the prlnclpal's recommendatlon. Students vtho leave the school before completing the full course wlll recelve upon request, a certltlcate stating the amount and grade of work they have successfully accom- pllshed. This arrangement ls intended for the henetllt of those who are not able to complete the full course. or who wlsh to take only a short course In Commerlclnl or special studles. EXPENSES: Students are required to furnlsh thelr own text-books, a I-llgh School international Dlctlonary. note-books. scratch books, and penclls. There ls also a small laboratory charge to cover breakage.