Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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it CAERULBKZ5 A DECADE OF PROGRESS Jeanette Willcuts '23 Rome was not built in a day. Nor was Poly high, with its 3800 students and its many buildings, constructed over night. Yet a little over a decade has marked the progress of the school from noth- ing to the present state. In lllarch, 1910, S240,000 in bonds was voted, with 358,000 of which a fifteen-acre site on Atlantic Avenue was purchased. The original Polytechnic High School, consisting of the Central, Science, and Nlanual Arts buildings, was completed in September, 1911. During 1912 the cafeteria, the O. D. study hall, the lunch room and the girls, gymnasium were added. Later still, a small bungalow was built for use as a classroom. For a time it was used as an R. O. T. C. arsenal, then for the art classes, for an annex to the girls' gym, and finally as a tool-house. Originally the Central building was used for the academic and commercial departments, the Science building for natural science, home decoration, and art, and the Manual Arts for the metal work and pottery of the art department, and for the mechanical classes. A little later the entire art department was moved to the lllanual Arts building. The Liberal Arts building, for English, history, art, music, and study hall, was built in the year, 1920-21, with the money from a bond issue voted in October, 1919. 6B435,000 in bonds was voted in June, 1921, for high school use. Last September, the Practical Arts, for commercial, home economics, and study hall classes, a new T671

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Serene and calm and fair you stand l VVith pillars stately, tall, and gray, You rise above the shifting sand VVhereon youthls Waves advance and play Gloriiied, you grow more dear As change is made to new from old, For with each swift, progressive year Even more the nationls hope you hold. No greater praise be given you By us who leave your friendly door Than that We shall be loyal, true To Alma Mater everinore. Ethyl VVade '23

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CABRULEK25 girls' gy1n, a swimming pool, with a laundry and heating plant in the same building, and a new boys' gym containing R. O. T. C. head- quarters and a band and orchestra room were opened. During the summer the former girls' gym was made into quarters for the print shop, the student body store and store-room, and High Life oflice. The old student body store was remodeled for a cafeteria office, the old hand-out was made into thc student dining room, and the former student dining room into the faculty dining room. A soda fountain was installed in the store. Lots on the corner of Fifteenth Street and Atlantic Avenue were made into school tennis courts, while agricultural grounds were furnished by a recent purchase of land at Seventeenth and California. A new brick building, housing the general school sto1'e-room and rcpair shop, and a store-room made from the former boys' gym are on these lots also. Student body money financed many of the additions, namely, the bleachers, the equipment and soda fountain in the store, the grading and curbing of the track, and the tennis courts. The Administration building put on a , - new front that was in the style of the Liberal Arts and Practical Arts buildings, during the fall of 1922. The driveway was removed, new walks in front and a lawn and shrubbery, furnished by the student body, were put in. VVooden policemen, made in the wood work and a1't departments, guarded the new lawns. 1911-1200 students and three build- ings, 1923--3800 students and nine build- ings. The history of Poly High! 5 ' . N ' ' 2 el. ,.... i.'....-. t . 'M Q . - :A S if .wi f .-. lflllw , ' W1 3 iq.. ,,... 3 5 f .... Eleven