Montebello High School - Golden Key Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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ADMINISTRATION UP FROM THE JUNGLE 'f HE ROMANCE OF MONTEBELLO-that, we are told, 7 ' . is the motive of this, the fifth volume of the uGolden Key . M f Turn for a moment to sketches of old adobe mansions and X Spanish vaqueros submitted by members of the art class, f . . . . . . A and you will be convinced that our beautiful little city is 1 . the child of a romantic past. ' , 'I Without any doubt, it was oil that made the present Z Montebello, Floraculture, together with more or less diver- sified agriculture, has helped. The clay deposits of South Montebello from which millions of bricks are annually made has also played a part. - But prior to all this Montebello has had an exceedingly interesting history. Ask Miss Cox to show you the petrified clam shells picked up by biology students in the Repetto hills just north of the city. That means that these hills were once an old shore line, a barrier through which the San Gabriel river cut a channel to empty its flood waters into a great inland bay, building up with silt and clay the very ground on which your school now stands. Then, huge elephants or mammoths roamed through the tropical jungles that covered the hills and valleys of the surrounding country. These in turn were preyed upon by the ferocious saber-toothed tiger. If you doubt this, go to the museum at Exposition Park and see the skeletons of these animals exhumed from deposits Within an hour's ride of Montebello. Such has been the history of your city. Once the bottom of the sea, then the jungle, then the deposits of clay for bricks and soil for flowers. Then Page Sixteen

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H ON MONTEBELLO5 HNLLS .- ' FLOCKS OF SHEEP GRAZED UNTIL REPETTGS RANCH WAS SUBDHVIDED AND TOWN OF NEWMARK 1899 fig? Z QXA 46? f I ff N! It N91 I un,- Xxx I iff, ' 59,4 JL- 1 FRANCES DETMER5 Page Fifteen

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came the Indian followed by the Spaniard and the Mission Fathers. Then oil and industry, and coiincident with them, good roads, churches, libraries, parks and schools. All this is interesting and yet the most important chapter in the history of Montebello remains to be written. Events move forward at tremendous speed these days. Who dares look forward even twenty years and say what the history of Montebello will be? And yet-and right there is the whole purpose of this message-whatever that history proves to be, the boys and girls now in school are destined to be the authors and creators. For them is reserved the very climax of a hundred thousand years of progress-up from the jungle. What a responsibility! MARK R. IACOBS, Principal. A MESSAGE FROM THE SCHOOL TRUSTEES No one can reach the seats of the Mighty in these modern days unless he be one who knows: for the one who knows is ever master of them that remain in ignorance. Knowledge is power: but ignorance must forever be the fruitful origin of weakness and fear. About ignorance and fear cluster the whole brood of follies and vices, with their many crimes. This is a day for great thanksgiving and a feast in life's calendar. You boys and girls of this high school are indeed fortunateg you have the oppor- tunity of being those who know: and we congratulate you. This board of trustees wishes you success and happiness in all your future undertakings, with the grace of God. H. A. MERICKEL, School Trustee. Page Seventeen