Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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young is an event of hut little less importance that the founding of a state. Every school for higher learning is a moral as well as an intel- lectual achievement. In 1911 the student body numbered 1024, and the faculty reached a total of 56. The number of students had increased to 3,300 at the be- ginning of the fall term of 1922, and the faculty to 120 members. The total number of students who had graduated by 1922 was 3317. As a result of the growth in number of pupils and instructors, a notable ad- dition to the school was made in 1922 by the erection of a new building, known as Setiior Hall. Other recent additions are an automol)ile sho j and a complete printing plant. Dr. Wilson, Miss Dole, Mrs. Farnum, and Mrs. Trummer are the only remaining instructors who started with the school in 1910. Frotn the beginning Manual Arts has endeavored to be a cosmopoli- tan high school. It has endeavored to justify its name by devoting much time and effort to manual arts, as well as to tiie academic subjects. TWENTY.FOUR

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These Ten Years By Dorothy Smith and Winifred Smith When the Los Angeles Board of Education decided on an innovation in liit;li scliool courses and planned to give insruction in tlie niainial arts, it carefully selected a site, drew plans for a building and elected a princi- pal. The first students of the institution saw the significance of the event and assisted in getting a corner stone tliat would he an endnring granite memorial. They saw that upon the corner stone of instruction in all of our schools rested the future welfare of our whole nation. It is significant that the principal ' s and vice-principals ' offices of Manual Arts High School rest on a corner stone which stands as a symbol for the enthusiasm of youth for progress in America. In 1910 an increase in the population of the city of Los Angeles necessitated the erection of a new high school. Funds were raised and land purchased upon which now stands our school. Probably no one person had more influence in bringing about the realization of the dream ' of Manual than did Mr. J. M. Guinn, then the president of the Board of Education. In June, 1910, the Arts, Science, and Shop buildings were under construction. By September nine hundred pupils had enrolled in the Olive Street High School, the beginning of Manral Arts. That was ' o be their temporary home until the buildings at 42nd and Vermont were completed. While the students were still in the old Olive Street school they had anticipated laying the corner stone of their new home, having raised funds for that purpose. A copper box, made by the art metal classes, was used as a lining for the hollow granite stone. Into the box were placed copies of the school paper, the constitution of the Student Body Organization, a paper bearing the signature of every student and teacher in the school that year, an olive branch, the school pennant, a copy of the school songs and yells, and a few samples of American money of that date. As Mr. Guinn slowly lowered the granite stone to its mortar bi e, carrying with it the copper box and its contents, wild, enthusiastic cheers arose from the two thousand spectators. In his speech following the event, Mr. Guinn said. The Manual Arts High School is the most costly and one of the most commodious high schools in Southern California, if not in the entire state. The found- ing of a school for the moral, intellectual, and industrial training of the TM ' EXTY-THREE

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