Lick Wilmerding High School - Commencement Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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L1W1L LIFE June, 1927 The Founding of the Lick School This is the first of a series of articles that will appear in successive issues of the Life, reviewing historical events and setting forth some heretofore unpublished information re- garding the founding of the Lick and Wilmerding and Lux Schools. Not only should these narratives be of interest to students and graduates of the schools, but they will also be the means of getting into permanent, printed form important information that has come to my knowledge during the thirty years since the supervision of the Lick School was entrusted . to me and private correspondence that has been placed in my hands from time to time by early trustees of the schools and others, now deceased. On September 21, 1875, james Lick executed his now famous deed of trust by which he conveyed to certain trustees a large amount of property for various pur- poses of public benefit, of which the California School of Mechanical Arts was one. The clause with reference to the school prescribed the name for it and its character, named as its first trustees Dr. J. B. D. Stillman, Horace Davis, A. S. Hallidie, John Oscar Eldridge, John O. Earl and Hon. Lorenzo Sawyer, and required them to organize as a corporation. This board of trustees was for the school only and was entirely apart from the trustees to whom the settlement of James Lick's estate was entrusted. The execution of that portion relating to the schools was delayed by prolonged litigation, to determine whether the school should receive interest on its endow- ment from the time when the estate had money with which to pay it. The case was appealed to the supreme court several times, and was finally decided adversely to the school. The school was forced to accept the sum of S540,000, as provided in the deed of trust, and the residuary legatees-the California Academy of Sciences and the Society of California Pioneers -- received the interest on that amount for a period of about fifteen years. For these reasons it was not until January 3, 1895, that the buildings were completed and the school established. Meanwhile the old constitution of California was replaced by a new one, in 1879, and under the new constitution the trustees of the school found it necessary to abandon the proceedings for incorporating the school, which they had formulated soon after Mr. Lick's death, and make a fresh start. Some of the correspondence between the individual trustees in connection with this re-incorporation of the school is now in our possession, and included in it is a letter revealing the name of the person who suggested to James Lick the idea of founding a school of mechanical arts. This letter will be printed in the next article of this series. l:Page 41

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fune, 1927 L1W1L LIFE Faculties GEORGE A. MERRILL, B. S ......... ..................... LICK BRUNO HEYMANN, M. E., DEAN ...................... CLARA BOEKE, Ph. B., M. A ......... STELLA BOULVVARE, A. B ............ RALPH H. BRITTON, A. B .......... PAUL N. CHENOWETH ............. GRACE MENG, A. B ...................... SIDNEY A. TIBBETTS, B. S ................ ANETTA WANSCH, A. B., M. A ........ AIDA B. PATTERSON ..................................................... VVILMERDING ARTHUR H. FRENCH, B. S., DEAN ................ .......... E. R. BOOKER, A. ........... . LESTER S. HOLMES ............................. FRED H. MIGHALL ......... ........Director Mechanical Drawing .....English and Latin ...Freehand Drawing ....................Physics ...........Machine Shop .....English ana' Latin ...............Cheniistry ............Algebra .......Recorder .........General Science ................Geometry ........Cabinet lllaking .................Stonework F. E. PEIFER ............... ........................ ........ . 4 uto Mechanics GEORGE F. WOOD .............................................................. ........................... P lumbing EVELYN M. WOODLAND, B. L., M. L ................................. ........ H istory and English HAROLD N, WRIGHT ........................... .... .......... ............ E l ectrical Work GLADYS F.. BUCK ....... .......... .................. .............. R e c order ' LUX THERESA M. QTTO, B. L., DEAN .......................................................................... English ALMA BOEKE, Ph. B ....................... English, Typing, Store Accounts and Economics MILDRED N. CARROLL ...................................................................... Health and Hygiene ALTA M. CLARK, B. S ................... ........ .......... S c ience and Mathematics MARY L. CRITTENDEN .............................. ............................... D ressmaking VIVIAN M. ELLSWORTH, A. B., M. A ............ ................................................. C hernistry CLARA L. FASSETT .................. Interior Decorating and Furnishing, Commercial Art MARY A. FRASER, A. B ..................... C o-ordinator, lklerchandising and Salesrnanship MARY ELEANOR HUGHES ................................................ Drawing and Commercial Art AMY ISABEL ARMITSTEAD, B. S ........................................................................... Cooking ELEANOR J. JONES ....................... ........ S' owing, Costume Design AUDREY V. MIGUEL .................... ............................... A lillinery EVELYN M. SINCLAIR, B. A .......... ......................................... E nglish GERTA L. WOODRUFF ................... ......... I nstitutional lltfanagernent MARTHA G. WICKERSHAM ........ ... ..........,.................... Recorder fPage 51