Mountain View Union High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Mountain View, CA)

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1.1. f. T Q Mr. Albert L. Dornberger occupied the principal's chair for the following three years, 1906-09. From the class of '07 only two Seniors were graduated. The class of '08 brought forth nine graduates, making the largest number of students hitherto graduated at one time. Mr. Edwin L. Zahn was principal for the next seven years, his term ending the spring of '16, Before his coming to Mountain View, what was then called the high school was composed of only four rooms, and the office, besides a low one-story building which was used for the chemistry and physics laboratories. The school had so grown in attendance that more room was absolutely imperative, the situation being a good deal as it is now. Bonds to the amount of 510,000 were voted, and the part now forming the Assembly Hall, the basement below, and the upstairs above it, was built. This addition was made in the year 1910. The school had so grown that new subject matter was added to the curriculum. Do- mestic Science was offered to the girls and Manual Training to the boys. The present Bungalow on the High School grounds is the result of a 54,000 bond issue. Miss Lois Peers was the first instructor in that department. The Bungalow was built in the year 1913. The present Manual Training building was built by the members of that department in the year 1915, although shopwork was offered to the boys about the same time as Domestic Science was to the girls, and was con'- ducted in a low one-story building greatly inferior to the present shop. Later the curriculum was further expanded to include arts and crafts, leather- work, basketry, and metal art work. Miss Wolfenbarger was the first teacher in these subjects. Mr. 1. Martin came as principal in the fall term of '16. In the summer of 1917 he died, and with the fall term Mr. W. E. Hester replaced him, and has served as the principal of the Mountain View High School up to the present time, 1923. He has seen this High School grow to such a prodigious extent that at the present the building is no longer adequate to the needs and requirements of an enrollment of two hundred pupils or more. The present High School Board of Trustees is composed of Mr. Wm. Bubb, Mr. B. W. Folk, Mr. C. F. Awalt, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. H. E. Nuhn. These good people have been responsible for the material changes of this high school of late years, though in an indirect way, and have aided the High School financially whenever it has been expedient and necessary. But the faithful little old High School has served its purpose while it has been in a position to do so for the past twenty-one years. In these twenty-one years of service it has prepared its share of young men and women for the higher walks of life. Now as an old decrepit person Qif it is permissible to describe it as suchl, it must surrender its noble task, which has become a burden to it, to the younger and more fully equipped High School of Mountain View. We, the class of '23, will probably be the last class to leave its sacred halls. It is like parting with an old well-known friend, aye, even sadder, for the ties formed with inanimate things are something sure to last, and hardly ever broken. While in the future younger generations of students continue their activities within new walls, we of '23 will always look to the Old High School as the place of our toils, our victories, and our friendships. ANTHONY TAORNIINA, '23. C51 v. rs. L

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I-Iigh School History SMALL, seemingly insignificant incident brought about the existence of the lVlountain View High School. ln the year 1901, while lVIrs. Carrie R. Beverly, wife of the late Justice F. T. Beverly of Mountain View, was visiting a relative at Campbell, she remarked to him that even though the town of Campbell was a much smaller community than Mountain View, the former had a high school, but Mountain View did not. Her relative kindly suggested to her to start things going at Mountain View. Immediately upon her ar- rival home she wrote an article on the proposition of creating a high school district in Mountain View and had it published in the Leader, the local paper of that time. This was the means of setting public thought along the lines of establishing a high school. Mrs. Beverly's son, Howard Beverly Cdeceasedb, who was attending the San Jose high school, was persuaded by his mother to stay in Mountain View for the sake of helping the new high school along. He did all that his mother suggested, despite the fact that he was well entered into the high school life at San Jose. He began all his activities anew and helped to start, as well as keep up the interest in the Mountain View high school, even though he was making an unequal fight against tuberculosis. On August 31, 1901, an election was held to decide whether or not Mountain View should be organized as a high school district and whether the bonds amount- ing to 317,000 should be sold for the purpose of erecting a high school building. The vote stood in favor of the high school. ln April 1902 Mr. S. P. McCrea was engaged as principal, and Miss Alice Willston as assistant. On September 1, 1902 the school was opened with an en- rollment of 26. Of this number, two were Juniors, five were Sophomores, and nineteen were Freshmen. ln 1904 there were enrolled 31 members, two were Seniors, three were Juniors, fifteen were Sophomores, and eleven were Freshmen. The first Senior class to be graduated had for its members Howard Beverly, the first editor of the Blue and Gray, and Edward Green. One of these boys was a Northerner and the other was a Southerner, and as at the time of the Civil War the Southern army's uniforms were gray and the Northern army's blue, the Student Body saw that it was only proper and fitting that the school annual should he named in honor of its first graduates. Consequently, the name The Blue an-1: Gray was given to the yearly school production. That name has existed to ilu day and, we hope, will continue to exist. The class of 1905 had two graduates, Edna Higgins, deceased, and Alice Whit- tamore, now married and residing in this city. ln the fall of 1904 the principalship of the high school was given to Mr. Herbert Lee, who oiiiciated in that capacity till 1906. In 1904 the commercial department was started with four typewriters and nineteen students enrolled. There were forty-three students enrolled in the entire school year, 1904-05. John Budd was Manager, and Victor Weigle was Editor of the Blue and Gray. L51

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jfanultp W. E. HESTER, B. S. Principal. Athletics Qbaseballj. Favorite occupation: Rounding 'em up.' LOUISE G. SCHMLDT, A. M. Vice-Principal. English. Librarian. Favorite occupation: Chaperoning. NIABEL BARNARD, B. M. Drawing, Arts and Crafts, Music. Girls' Athletics. , Favorite occupation: Riding with Bud KAT1-1ER1NE MCKELVEY, A. B. English, History, Spanish. Favorite occupation: Making friends. E71