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

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J. E. WALLACE STERLING Graduates of Lowell High School have a fine record of achievement at Stanford University, and I am happy to have this opportunity to extend greetings to the student body and to alumni and other friends of the school. At the present time there are 70 undergraduate students enrolled at Stanford from Lowell, which has ranked among the principal con- tributors to Stanford's freshman classes over the years. The student body and faculty of Stanford University join me in extending Stanford's best wishes to Lowell High School on its 'hundredth anniversary. j. E. WALLACE STERLING Prerident, Stanford U fziveryity Congratulations to Lowell High School From 1 Stanford University and the University of California Lowell High School is not only the oldest high school on the Pacific Coast. It is also among the oldest of educational institutions of all types in the area, including colleges. Even more important, it has over the years judging by the record of its graduates at the University of California, done a consistently good job of teaching and guidance for young people. For example, only four high schools in the State have, since 1950, sent more graduates to the University of California, and the record of these students, in spite of their number, has been markedly above the average for all high school matriculants. This is a record which is worthy of centennial congratulations, and of which the students as well as the teaching staff and administration of Lowell High School may well be proud. ROBERT G. SPROUL Prefidefzt, U fziverfity of California ROBERT G. SPROUL

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Superintendentis Message This year Lowell High School can look back one hundred years-almost as far back as can the city of San Francisco itself. The history of the one has not merely paralleled that of the other, the two have been intertwined and interdependent. The public support that the city gave to her first high school has come back in multiple returns down through the years. As San Francisco grew, so did the public school sys- tem on which the advancing city was so dependent. And in a true sense Lowell divided and subdivided as new high schools were established to serve the expan- sion of the city into its many corners. And in turn the mother school has had the satisfaction of seeing her high standards carried into school after school over the city. As proud as she may be of her past, Lowell's real glory may well rest in the years ahead. The situation that faces our nation in her recently acquired position of world leadership is one to tax the educational in- genuity of any high school, regardless of its past record. There is every indication 'that Lowell's next hundred years will 'be as significant as her past hundred. HAROLD SPEARS SIlPE1'fl7167Z6l'E7ll' of San Fmnfirm Public Srlaoolr J. A. PERINO HAROLD SPEARS Principals Message I am extremely proud to be associated with an educational institution that has served genera- tions of San Franciscans so well for one hundred years. Thousands of Lowellites have figured prominently in the growth and development of our great City by the Golden Gate. Future gen- erations of Lowellites will continue to bring honor upon themselves, their school, and their community. They will continue to develop a beautiful city as they live their lives and bequeath upon succeeding generations a challenge to greater things. You will agree with me, I am sure, that the journalism class and the instructor, Mr. Robert Buckley, have prepared a Centennial Yearbook that is a masterpiece. Lowell wishes to recog- nize them and to thank them deeply for their superb and prodigious effort. May the Alumni always look back over the years to the old school house, to their teachers, and to their schoolmates with the pleasant feel- ing of many happy memories. These are the mo- ments that bind Lowellites together. May the old grads and young grads always remain faith- ful and loyal to their old alma mater and to each other. J. A. PERINO Principal!

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ames Russell Lowell Lowell High School is proud to be named after such a distinguished American poet, educator, and diplomat as james Russell Lowell, Lowell was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1819 the descendant of a lon line 1 i , 8 of notable ancestors, and he was reared in surroundings favorable to the development of his gifts of intellectual power and high ideals of manhood. Lowell spent his childhood on his father's country estate, Elmwood on the Charles River. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar at the age of 21. After the death of his wife in 1853, Lowell became professor of literature and modern languages at Harvard and held this position for over 20 years. During this time he was editor of the Allantir Monthly and joint editor of the North American Review. In 1875 Lowell resigned from Harvard to accept the position of Minister to Spain and in 1880 was transferred to London. He held this position until 1885. Through his poems and prose, especially the Bigelow papers, Lowell exerted a tre- mendous influence against the evils of slavery and as a literary critic he had few equals. Lowell died in 1891 at the age of 73.