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

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ARTIST'S MODEL OF THE NEXV MOUNTAIN VIEW UNION HIGH SCHOOL Twenty acres of land, centrally located, was purchased as the site the th s wonderful, new high school building is .H HE creation of of the High School campus. of this The people adjustment to new conditions. result of social orrow will and tom day to of the children w institution He this In hool and Sc gh Hi ve long felt their utter need of a new ha mmunity C0 ental and In eir h t US ed for developi be provid Call hat receive the best t an institution iS It DCS. ho heir t Of alization T9 is the ructure St iS th erect- The nnal product of the labor now engaged in physical being. ed e four hundr In S0 struction, rin fo L boson its IO gin takin of capable being proud of, something Worth fice will be surely i ed this new S in y of architecture, it ut ea b its tion. In of the younger genera students is among it, for it of ud F0 district can truly feel p gh school hi and the archi- In h the general surroundings of Nature. perfectly wit blends the State. the best of High Schools in OHS all indicati by ch day, whi he to the style of t IS forn tecture it con A word should be said about the honorable Board of Trustees and Being provided with modern bids fair to be of no short duration. connection Professor W. E. Hester, principal of the High School, in a vast improve- is it aching facilities, I6 o-date -t UD and ment uip eq directly and in- h bot e people were, QS Th ool. Sch W High the Ne with ool. Sch gh Hi affair-the Old tinder-box over the inadequate, ment bu ld- of the .-u directly, instrumental in securing the design and plan SCVQH' are There S165 0001 The bare building alone costs about el'- ch ong ll ea id all hieving aC lin el W d quite de C068 S11 have ing, and e is, el' Th ministrative sections. ad he oft elusive BX class rooms 'teen The members of the Board ished by the people of Mountain View. rest room, a nurse's room, a dining room, u 8. addition a library, in erkg C. F. Wm. Bubb, President, B. W. Folk, Cl are rustees T of theater, an inner court, lavatories, and overlooking a spacious small .I Nuhn. E. J Taylor, and A. Awalt, J. seven hundred fifty persons. seating auditorium all here is ge, t Sta 3

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Q Behiration Jfor the notetnorthp reason that the pear 1923 marks the beginning of the existence of the netn Mountain View ibigh Srhool anh ronsequentlp the relinquishment of the olo Mountain View Zlaigh brhoolz we, the Stuhents of the mountain View Zbigh School, oo oeoirate this number of the Blue uno gray to the Glo ant to the jlietn.

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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