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

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Disfinguished Graduafes This lisf, fhough incomplefe, indicales +he achievemenls of Poly graduaies in many fields, ranging from en+er+ainmen'l 'lo research and from business +o public service. 1 Allen, Sara Van Alsfyne-Poel, essayisf I Anderson, Edward W., Brigadier General+Eigh+h Air Force 8 Baker Kenny Tenor moving pic+ures, radio Bemoff Vic+or Hugo Research scienlish asfronomy, seis- mology Burke Julia Dolan Birkley and D. B. Olsen,-Auihorg ficlion I 5 BrrH'on Barbara Adress: moving picfures 9 Brooks Mildred Bryan?-Ariish efcher, prinl-maker Brown Leland Banker financial adviser for nafional proiecis Craig John D Capfain-Au+hor, diver, leciurer Day Laralne Aciress moving piciures Denebrmk Francis Rear Admiral-Uniied S+a+es Navy I0 Doyle Clyde Represenfaiiveg Unired Siales Congress Drury, Morley-All American l926-273 foofball Hawks, Frank-Avialor I2 Heflin, Van-Acforg moving piclures 6 'Henderson, Richard G.-Assisianf surgeon Public Healih Service: research in lropical diseases 1 Il Hicks, Belly-Naiional Women's Champion, I944 All-Ameri- can Open Champion: golf 0 s fa-.0 is 'Y 7

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Polytechnic High School-1895 to 1945 The first public high school classes organized in Long Beach were started in the old Tabernacle Building at Third and Locust in l895. The principal of that school, which was composed of both elementary .and high school grades, was Walter S. Bailey. Mrs. Katharine Mosher Campbell, who still resides in Long Beach, was for e short time a student in this school and did some cadet teaching, having charge of the class in Latin. She later entered Stanford, and afterward became the regular teacher of Latin here. lt is notable in this connection, that it was she who first suggested that the new high school annual which appeared first in i903 should be named Caerulea a name taken from Virgil's Aeneid and meaning deep blue sea . lt seems that the high school classes started in the Tabernacle. were later transferred to a store building on Pine Avenue, before being moved to the new high school building at Eighth and American Avenue in lB98. The new school at Eighth and American opened with an enrollment of 43 pupils. The faculty consisted of two teachers and the principal. The first graduate from Long Beach High School was Ernest Shaul who finished his .course in IB97. There were five graduates in the class the next year and fifteen in the Class of '99, The enroll- ment of the high school grew rapidly and in ten years had increased to 643. Miss Jane Harnett, for whom the Harnett Memorial Fund was nameu, was a teacher in the first high school. She attained distinction in her field as a teacher of history. She early became head of her department, a position which she held until her death in I9l8. Miss Harnett tool: an active interest in student affairs and was chiefly instrumental in organizing the student-body and later in changing the form of government to the commission form. Two important considerations now gave rise to an urgent demand that a new high school of the polytechnic type should be built. These considerations were lil to provide ample room for the large and growing enrollment: l2l to provide opportunity for a greatly ex- panded and diversified curriculum. This movement culminated in the voting of bonds in the spring of l9I0, in the amount of S240,000 for a new high school plant. The site finally selected was located at Sixteenth and Atlantic, where thirteen acres were acquired at a cost of Sl3,000. The building plans adopted by the Board of Education called for a central Administration Building, a Science Building, and a Mechanic Arts Building, besides a small cafeteria. The cornerstone of the Administration Building was laid with fitting ceremonies in December, l9I0. The entire group of buildings was completed and made ready for occupancy with thelopening of school in September, l9I I. The curriculum was now expanded to include, beside the regular aca- demic courses which had previously been offered, such practical sub- iects as woodshop, machine shop, welding, auto shop, and mechanical drawing, as well as many of the homemaking subiects for girls, such as foods, clothing, and millinery. The courses in music, art, commerce, science, drematics, and physical education were greatly expanded and improved at this time. Following close upon this expansion of school facilities and subiect offerings came a five-year period of development and expansion of student activities, which was perhaps never equaled in any similar period of the school's history. This period, I9I2-l9l'l, saw the complete reorganization of the student-body government. It was changed from the traditional form with a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. assisted by an advisory board composed of student and faculty members. to the Commission form of government. This tl school has maintained with only minor changes from that time dov to the present. The five-year period referred to above also saw tl establishment' of the Honor Scholarship Society which, so far as known, was the first of its kind in the state and the parent society W the California Scholarship Federation in the organization of which Lol Beach played a leading part. This notable period also brought us o Student Store: our first weekly school paper, High Life: the Gif League: the Junior Chamber of Commerce: and our first military orgar ration. known as the Student Cadet Corps, which was later supersedl by the ROTC. It will be remembered by the alumni and many of tl faculty that it was in l9l5 that the famous Long Beach Pageant w produced by the faculty and students of Polytechnic High Schoi The Pageant was staged in Bixby Park, with nearly a thousand studen participating in the production. Though there was e good admissii charge, the performances continued nightly over an entire week befo capacity audiences of townspeople and visitors from surrounding citis This pageant had much educational and historical value in relatii to this area from the time it was occupied by the Indians precedil the landing of Cabrillo in San Pedro down to modern days. Oth important developments in this period included the presentation of tl first Christmas Concert, a beautiful sacred production which has bei repeated annually ever since and has attracted wide attention. ln tl spring of l9I7 our first opera, The Mikado , was presented by an a high school cast in the school auditorium. lt should be noted that many years before this time and even whi the school was still on the site at Eighth Street and American Avenu student activities began to assume considerable importance thoui limited at first to athletics and debating and a class play from tir to time. Athletics were carried on chiefly under student initiative al direction and with practically no equipment or supplies except su as might be provided by the players themselves or by interesti citizens, with now and than a little help from the Board of Educatic Lockers were built by the team boys themselves in the basement the school building after they had done' the necessary excavating provide room. Materials for the lockers were dry goods boxes an such other lumber as the boys could gather. Padlocks were provid by the users themselves. The showerbath after games had to wi till the boys reached their homes as there were no such luxuries pn vided by the school. Yet, in spite of such difficulties and obstacl athletics went forward from the first, particularly baseball, footb and track, in all of which interscholastic competition with some of 'I Los Angeles high schools, Pasadena, Santa Ana, and others 1 successfully maintained. In the early years of the school. girls' bask' ball was a prominent activity and attracted much interest. Lo Beach held high rank in this sport and in i908 played Lowell Hi of San Francisco for the state championship and won. As the years went by and the high school was moved to the new s at Sixteenth and Atlantic, where there was ample room and faciliti and the student-body was able to finance student activities, t whole program was expanded and took on new importance. Athlet began to provide considerable student revenue after the constructi of a fence around the field so that admission to the games could collected. This fence was built in l9ll-I2 largely by student a teacher labor. In the course of the school's history, Long Beach has achieved hi