Mission High School - Mission Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Mita Vid. V l Vi?V'Vl ' l M31 Mt ,wwe r fs Mlrff tf WU, . J J in A W MPvTfDr'VgliVJ7f'iVli A as 27' whfiigaunylir SVYJJ ss l ' If ose responsible forjjme successful be nning o ion ' g , an integral part of this school for over thirizy yeigs. e ' i r teaching career in 1896, amid many ' veniences, sbgfwas h of the History Department a d position of Dean of Girls. 5 . A far-seeing person with thosesterling qualiti make h n I' inspirgtion to those withwhomushe comes in co ct, ith . 1 ' ,V . . . has- set manyja student on tljgb' road to success. Her etermmation i fro, compleikviateyff she begins has also had its influence upon her fellow ass iat . V A icture o thi- ' 4 ersona e seated at her seemin l over- j P S . S Y size sk, always yvilling to give adrsye vwhxen it is needed, will ever r ' imin th! minds of those Missio it bvhose privilege it was to be . ,i ong hkr studentsf K bvxji I J v ,Jv t ng' . N., t Q 1 . . X J fl X . Mr. Louis Conlan, the present principal, was appointed his successor. However he was then serving with the U.S. Navy. Therefore Mr. joseph Newman, who had joined the faculty in 1923, was appointed acting principal until Mr. Conlan's release from the Navy in 1944. At this time Mr. Conlan became active head of the school while Mr. Newman resumed his post as Dean of Boys and Vice Principal. NEW BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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f v 1 Miss Ada Goldsmith, who graduated from Girls High School, was the tirst teacher at Mission and a member of its faculty for thirty years. During this time she held many positions, including those of history teacher, head of the history department, vice-principal. and dean of girls. Since her retirement and during her years of teaching. Miss Goldsmith has done considerable traveling which has taken her to many of the other countries, though she is still a resident of San Fran- cisco ,her native city. Drew tield became part of Mission on November 5, 1958, after Mr. Drew, the principal, had circulated petitions throughout the city in an attempt to obtain an athletic field for his school. In 1916 Mr. joseph O'Connor retired from the school of which he had been principal since 1896, when it began, except for a two year period when he was appointed to the Board of Education .ind Mr. Wailter O. Smith acted as head of Mission. He was suc- ceeded by Mr, lf. H. Clark who was transfered to Lowell High in 1919. Mr. William Drew became principal, a position he retained until his retirement in 1945. BREAKING OF GROUND FoR NEW BUILDING, i-in

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W PAGE EIGHT Y IOSEPH O'CONNER joseph 0'Conner, one of the founders and the first principal of Mission High School, received his appoint- ment as principal in 1897. He remains in the memories of those who knew him as a jine teacher, a strict dis- ciplinarian, a just and kind man. He was an athlete as well as a scholar and held the distinction of heing the prst man to swim the Golden Gate. FREDERICK H. CLARK Frederick H. Clark succeeded Mr. 0' Conner as principal in 1916 and held the position until 1919. A quiet, scholarly man, he was himself a Mission boy. During his hrief tenure he carried on Mr. O'Conner's work and did considerable planning forthe proposed new additions to the school building and future courses of instruction, Mr. Clark's quiet and unassuming lead- ership was a godsend in those panicky days of World War I.