Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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DECEMBER, 1926 The RED E99 WHITE CLASSES GRADUATES PUBLICATIONS ORGANIZATRJNS R. O. T. C. BOYS' SPORTS GIRLS, SPURTS LITERARY - HUMOR PAGES 9 17 35 43 63 67 89 97 107

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The RED E99 WHITE Ni DECEMBER, 1926 4 4 l 1 The memorable date which marks the founding of our nation commemorates also an event dear to the hearts of San Franciscans. The establishment of a Spanish mission and presidio on a marsh-covered peninsula in 1776 laid the foundations of that great and enterprising city Which now claims Lowell High School as one of its foremost institutions of learning. San Francisco has pro- gressed amazingly since those early days. lt has become the commercial and industrial center of the Vwlest. Still, there clings to our heart a love of those ro- mantic days when tolling mission bells called the lndians to prayer, and gay Span- ish caballeros sang and danced in the public squares which are now bustling thoroughfares. And so, on this sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of our city, We have endeavored to make this journal commemorative of San Francisco's early life. We sincerely hope that our efforts will meet with approval and will serve as a remembrance of happy days at Lowell. if

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The RED E99 WHITE DECEMBER, 1926 THE HI T089 01' l0VIElL HGH The Union Grammar School was established in San Francisco in 1856. This was really a secondary school and its students were destined to form the nucleus of the Lowell. The pupils were eighty in all, and were chosen from the most advanced classes of the grammar schools. lt was under the direction of Principal Ellis H. Holmes of Massachusetts that the subjects mathematics, science, history, Latin, and Greek were taught. On June 8, 1858, the Union Grammar School was reorganized into the San Francisco High School, and at the same time its curriculum was increased. In the meantime the Board of Education purchased a building on Powell Street between Sacramento and Clay, and equipped it for a modern high school. The 6th of September, 1860, the San Francisco High School was formally dedi- cated: the Rev, Thomas Starr King was principal speaker of the day. Again in June, 1864, a change occurred in the organization of the school. The boys and girls were separated: the girls were transferred to a new building at Stockton and Bush streets, while the boys remained in the original building, now renamed the Boys' High School. Mr. Minns, a former fellow student of James Russell Lowell at Harvard, was now made principal of the Boys' High School. Because of increasing members, the Boys' High School was transferred, in 1875, from Powell Street to Sutter Street, between Gough and Octavia. Then, in 1887, since the classical languages which were necessary for admission to the university had been discontinued in the Girls' High School, girls were admitted to the Boys' High School. During the same year the school was renamed Lowell High School. Finally, in 1912, after repeated reorganization, our present build- ing was dedicated, retaining the name of Lowell. During the following years, under the guidance of Mr. Frank Morton, who had succeeded Mr. Minns, Lowell made rapid progress in her scholastic and ath- letic standards. The curriculum was also altered so that four years was required of the students instead of three. Very early in Lowel1's existence publications were edited, the first being The Lowell, in 1898, a journal of school life and activities. At the same time the Athletic Association organized. Mr. Morton was succeeded by Mr. Clark, who was a pupil at Boys' High School, and was also for many years teacher at Lowell. The name Lowell interprets: Loyalty, Opportunity, Energy, and Love for fellow students. 161