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

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ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS 17 Among ' the thousands who have played their part in the history of Long Beach Polytechnic High School there are many who have reached high attainment. Caerulea, with the student body of Poly, feels the greatest pride in these former students. It is therefore with extreme pleasure that we present anniversary greetings and reminiscences from a few representatives of this honored group. We regret only that time did not permit our hearing from many more. EUGENE I. FISHER 02 Eugene Fisher, member of the board of education and prominent Long- Beach lawyer, is. as his message attests, one of our earliest alumni and possessor of a wealth of pleasant memories concerning early days at the high school and of Caerulea, to which he was a contributor. Happy indeed is the alumnus who can look back upon high school days in such an institution as Long Beach High School. He must surely have gained something noble in the way of ideals and ambitions from such associations and friendships both with members of the faculty and fellow students. When I entered in 1898 Professor Howard L. Lunt, now an instructor in the University of Southern California, supervised the entire school system of the city of Long Beach in addition to being principal of the high school. The high school faculty consisted of three other teachers: E. W. Frew, heading the mathematics department; Miss Jane Harnett, teaching history, civics, and English; and Miss Louise Callow, who resigned a year later and was replaced by Miss Katherine Mosher, then completing her course at Stanford University. Miss Callow taught Latin, Greek, and German. I am glad to pay tin ' s personal tribute to .Miss Harnett, now deceased, who was a teacher of remarkable ability and rare personality, greatly beloved by students and faculty associates. I shall always be grateful to her and to those other men and women who served the Long Beach High School so excellently in the earlier days and who were a constant inspiration to me throughout my high school career and later years. I am glad of this opportunity to express my appreciation for the fine service Mr. David Bureham has rendered the high school as principal during the years of his administration. I am frank to say that our high school annual, which was launched durin ■■ my time at the school and christened Caerulea by Miss Katherine Mosher, has made some progress typographically and otherwise since those halcyon days ; but