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

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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

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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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'l'HE'II'lDOSSIBIfE'lf0I1EBAClC O, Joe, it's impossible for any horse to come back. Absolutelyeimpossiblef' - But a thoroughbred, a real thoroughbred, I mean. Charley, I know that a real horse, a horse with a heart, can come back. 'LYou5ll find you're wrong, Joe. Charley Bennet, owner of America's greatest racing stables l as well as of some of the world's finest and fastest horseiiesh, smiled patronizingly and shrugged his shoulders. A shake of the head as if he were firmly convinced that Bennet was wrong was Joefs only answer for the famous turfman's conclud- ing .state1nent. Then Joe seemed to slip into a deeply thoughtful mood. Bennet picked up one of the books that were so plentiful in his vast library and began to read. Joseph VVorral had been Joe's name when he had won temporary fame and fortune for himself and his two animals by winning racc after race ten yea1's before. He had maintained for two years an almost unbroken string of victories. Then his two horses started on the down grade. They wanted to run, but they had about spent the number of races that we1'e in them. VVOl'1'3l,S fortune was spent on laying bets on his horses, who now lost in practically every race. But Joe kept on with the hope of one last chance, of one of his thorough- breds taking a big stake. The chance, as usually happens, didn't come. Then Bert Foote, the older of Joels two horses, died. A bad heart caused by the strain of continual racing had caused the death of the great horse. Joe knew it and for a month he mourned the death of the animal, for a month he was actually sick over the thought that he had run his horse to death. Finally he came out of his worry,, counted his resources, and determined to get a job and settle down with his remaining horse, the Ace of Spades. Charley Bennet, hearing of this determination of Joe's, had hired him as general manager of the well known Bennet stables. VVhen- ever Bennet wanted advice he called on Joe to give it. The two were 711067116