Los Gatos High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Los Gatos, CA)

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Three years ago our students began the accumulation of a gymnasium fund. When I came there were one hundred twenty-eight dollars in the fund, now there are one hundred seventy. Each year an entertainment is given and the receipts are all applied to it. A consideration of the high school grounds will convince one that the gymnasium is badly needed. We have a fairly good base ball diamond surrounded by a track. The base ball field is the only one in the town and is used by the highschool boys, the grammar school boys and the Los Gatos city team. Even the girls' base ball games are played on it. The girls have a sloping rocky ground in front of the high school on which to practice. In the rear of the building is a quoit court. So far the grounds are eminently satisfactory, but when we turn to the basket ball and tennis courts we find ourselves sadly lacking. For the thirty or more boys and girls who desire to play tennis we have just one court and no place to make another. Our basket ball court was so much in demand by the regular boys' and girls' teams and by others who wanted to play and could not find a suitable place that we tried making a temporary court on the base ball field. It was not a success as the ground was not level, was gravelly, and was being used at the same time as a base ball field. Furthermore basket ball is a winter sport and many times we are unable to play on account of rain. This applies to both home playing and league games. Thus space and cover are serious basket ball needs. These the gymnasium would supply and it can be built on a part of the ground that cannot be used for anything else. This would release the ground now used as a basket ball court and it could be lengthened and made into another tennis court. VVe really need four tennis courts, one of them to be so made that it can be turned into a basket ball part of the time. Some one may suggest, What's the matter with the park? VVhy not use that to make tennis courts, etc. P The chief matter is the Keep off the grass signs, which have been given such prominence that the students do not feel that the park is a part of the grounds at all. Possibly the signs are necessary till the grass is started, but Lawn tennis might satisfy one-third or more of those who desire to play and two such courts can be made in the park. At the pres- ent time we are borrowing the private courts in town to play our tennis games on and to practice on. If we had four courts they would be in use all of the time. Indoor baseball and class gymnastics could also be carried on in the gymnasium. We attempted a musical gymnasium class this year, but the lack of a suitable Hoor space seriously interfered with the plan. Thus while the gymnasium would not meet all our ,wants it would very materially in- crease our facilities and it is one of the really crying needs of the school. A year ago I was invited to address the Home and School Association on The School Plant. In that talk I suggested that for economic reasons as well as educational the high school should begin at the seventh grade. While it would be impossible to house these grades in the high school building, it would be an easy matter to erect a small open air building on the high school grounds, built by the students of the seventh to twelveth year high school under the direction of a competent builder. This would allow the common use of the high school assembly room, the library, the gymnasium, the shop, the domestic science equipment, the play ground, etc., without the necessity of going from one ground to another and without any feeling that the seventh and eighth grades are intruding. During this year the grammar school boys have used the high school grounds by an arrangement made thru the Principal, this being necessary because there is not another place in town where a base ball game can be played. Of the many things that might be considered, these two Views Ahead represent the ones that seem to me to demand immediate attention. If this is your opinion, and I am convinced that it is the opinion of those students and patrons who have considered the matter, it remains for us only to act, PROF. WALTON. 8

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1 Views Ahead Bayard Taylor once wrote a book describing things he had seen and called it Views Afoot. I am writing of things I should like to see so I call it Views Ahead. The article is a new departure for the Wild Cat and is introduced at the invitation of the editorial staff who gave me carte Blanche as to my subject. It is addressed to both patrons and students since the views here expressed can be realized only if serious consideration is given them by both. I shall suggest two things as the most immediate needs of the high school. Last fall we opened the high school shop, fitting it at an expense of about one hundred fifty dollars. VVe thot, perhaps, one-fourth of the boys would be interested in the course offered. It proved much more popular than We cal- culated and students we thot would not care for it have entered and continued for the year. As two periods are required for a credit it cannot be contended that it was taken because of being easy. Whenever a practical problem has been given, such as building a room for the domestic science department, members of the class have asked for theprivilege of doing it. While many boys of the school are preparing for college, there are many, also, who call insistently for industrial and commercial studies. The latter have little inter- est in the academic subjects, but are as much entitled to the training for citi- zenship which the high school affords as the former. The Harvard investiga- tion as to the value of certain studies, such as mathematics, left these subjects with so little to stand upon that the advocates of the practical subjects have had a much better chance to present the value of these workaday doings. As- sociation is probably the greatest power in the high school to develop character and call forth ability, and association can be had only if the student is held in school. That his association may be of the right kind he must be kept at some interesting work. Hence, the extension of practical subjects to include more shop work, the construction of ONE well equipped shop for use of both grammar and high schools, the broadening of the course to include building of small farm buildings and farm equipment. the organization of a practical course in fruit raising, dairying, animal husbandry and general farm manage- ment is one of the really pressing needs of the high school. Such a course is altogether practicable and could be conducted by one good man. The shop can be constructed and equipped by the boys, the small amount of machinery necessary installed by them and the park offers ample means for elementary agricultural demonstration. To a large extent the park can be cared for by the students. It might not be so pretty but it would be more useful. This is no dream, it is just what has been accomplished in other schools under my supervision. In one such school the boys built a practical blacksmith shop, making many of the tools and installing forges for twelve boys where prac- tical work was continually going on. Farm horses were shod, neck yokes and double trees made, and one boy, who was lost in academic subjects, made a hay derrick, hewing every piece of timber and forging every piece of iron in it. and it worked successfully on a large farm. The same class built an open air school for a primary room of forty children at an expense of three hundred dollars, one-half the probable cost by contract, and it is still in use. If this work had been going on in our high school for the last few years several boys who have voluntarily dropped out to pursue a shifting course of unskilled labor or went elsewhere to seek the desired training would still be at homg with us, to their advantage and ours. 7

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