Palo Alto High School - Madrono Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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DEDICATION To the founders of Palo Alto High School, who made possible the graduation of the first class in 1897, we, the fiftieth, dedicate this yearbook. The Palo Alto of the 1890's was a very small town. If we were to see it as it was then, we should be able to recognize it only by “el Palo Alto,” the tall tree. However, those early pioneers, imbued with a zeal for higher education, provided the opportunities and instilled the desire for finer living which has characterized Palo Alto since the first high school opened in a wooden frame building on Channing Avenue. We are humbly grateful to those men and women through whose foresight, resourcefulness, and sacrifice our enlarged curriculum and beautiful campus and building are available today. To single out any person, or group of persons, would seem inadequate; accordingly, we prefer to pay tribute to all who made our happy days at Paly possible.

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iy Mel | WISE FoREWORD The ““Madrono” this year is designed to be a lasting realization of the memories of school days of 1947 and to recall, in so far as this yearbook permits, the highlights of fifty years of Palo Alto’s educational growth. In Paly’s infancy the ‘““Madrono” was a monthly publi- cation, a continuation of a monthly paper, ‘Red and Green.” It is explained that the name change was peculiarly apt in that the small native shrub ‘“‘madrone’’ has a deep red bark and shiny green leaves. After the “Campanile” was started during World War I, ‘““Madrono”’ became the class annual. In keeping with the traditional high standards of the past, the staff of 1947 has earnestly endeavored to publish a beautiful and complete yearbook, one which will be permanently commemorative of the years 1897-1947.