Live Oak High School - La Encina Yearbook (Morgan Hill, CA)

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Foreword ln fhis year of I949 we celebrafe fhe cenfennial of fhe rush for gold in California. The l849ers, wifh pick and shovel and hope in fheir hearfs, hunfed for fhis freasure. We. fhe Senior Class. fhe l949ers, sfill have hope in our hearfs: buf our gold is represenfed in fhe oppor- funifies open fo us in our democrafic insfifufion. John Marshall, carpenfer and millwrighf af Suffer's Forf, never realized whaf his discovery of gold would do 'ro fhe developmenf of California s hisfory Wifh visions of riches and wealfh people by 'rhe millions surged wesfward And as people seffled in California fhis sunshine sfafe began fo develop polifically economically and cul furally The Franciscan Friars esTablished fwenfy one missions and reached fhe people educafionally and agriculfurally as well as re ligiously business cenfers like San Francisco and Sacramenfo sprang up mining camps began fo be more like liffle communifres and well known enferfainers like Edwin Boofh appeared in California California enfered The Jnion in I85O and af fhe close of fhe Civil War California experienced an economic developmenf in fhe opening of fhe Union Pacific Railroad Since fhen fhis second largesf sfafe has progressed confinually if has one of fhe finesf educafional sysfems in fhe iafion if is a leading indusfrial and agriculfural sfafe and nfs climafe has helped many individuals fo regain fheir healfh This is fhe fine background which has been handed down fo us Seniors a background of hardship courage unbelievable persisfence in fhe face of frial and of asfon shing elasficify of spirif a background we are righfly proud of and a background fo which we hope as we enfer our individual fields of work we will someday a 14-:X ,bball X . . . . I . i ., ff x 4, A- 1-Ea 4 gl Eff 1, X if

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TABLE CDF CGNTENTS Foreword Deducahon Aclmlnlslrahon and Faculfy Sensors The Classes Orgamzahons Classroom Candlcls Achvlhes Sporls Campus Cu'r ups Adverfisemenls Class l-lis+ory, Will, Prophecy

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in Dedlcahon We ihe Senior Class of +his Cenfennial year of 49 dedicafe La Encina +o Mr. John Francis Soares our class advisor for his friendship and guidance which have given us some of 'rhe hap- piesi' days of our lives. Wm