Mount Diablo High School - Diablo Yearbook (Concord, CA)

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FOREWORD ... iSOMBRAS SOLO Y . . . NADA MAS! El Cuervo — Poe Only shadows and nothing more. In the minds of the present day residents of Contra Costa County, its colorful past seems legendary rather than historical. Few realize that the walnut and fruit orchards which enhance the beauty of the county and the nomenclature of our streets — Salvio, Galindo, Pacheco — are echoes of the Spaniards that came before us. Much of the folklore of this region which we read and hear about today is factual. The romantic tale concerning the naming of Mt. Diablo — the mountain of the devil — is true and so are many other stories of like nature. The heritage of Contra Costa County is as rich as the soil which first attracted settlers. We have tried to bring out the character of that heritage — the vast cattle domains, the fiestas, the gracious living. These authentic actions and events experienced by real people have been pictorially presented in this yearbook in an attempt to coordinate historical fact with the legendary past.

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DEDICATION . . . In this new land of California where almost everyone has come recently from some other place, we have an exception in our charming Miss Galindo, whose forefathers were among the first Europeans to come to this valley. In the romantic past when the campus was an oak-covered meadow, there came Don Salvio Pacheco, grandson of Jaun Salvio Pacheco, (a member of the Anza Expedition), and built his home in what is now Concord. It was Salvio Pacheco and Francisco Galindo who laid out the town of Todos Santos, now Concord, and gave the Plaza to the village. Miss Galindo's father, Fredrick C., was the son of Jaun Crisostomo Galindo and Marina Amador de Ga- lindo (grand-daughter cf Don Salvio). With this background it is natural that Miss Galindo should major in Spanish at the University of California and return to Diablo to teach the language of her ancestors and to direct the Department of Foreign Languages. As a student at Diablo Miss Galindo was a leader and was graduated with honors. As a teacher she has renewed her interests in activities and is now director of our chapter of the California Scholarship Federation. Her influence in maintaining high scholastic standards has been widely felt; her patience and understanding have endeared her to the student body. It is with grateful appreciation that we, the Students of Mt. Diablo High School, dedicate this, Our Yearbook, to MISS RUTH GALINDO.