Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Student Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

 - Class of 1929

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Thirty-four years ago a commercial depart- ment was instituted in the Los Angeles High School, with W. H. Wagner, still a member of our faculty, the first teacher appointed. One hundred and ten pupils comprised the enroll- ment. In 1896 the de- partment was placed un- der the supervision of Mr. John H. Francis, and was transferred to the second floor of the California Street School building, located back of the old L. A. High School on North Hill Street. Two years were required to complete the course, which included bookkeeping, arithme- tic, English, spelling, stenography, typewrit- ing, commercial geog- raphy, and penmanship. Six boys and six girls were in the first class graduated from this de- partment. Attendance in this commercial department increased rapidly and in 1901 a special building was erected on Hill Street opposite L. A. High. This building cost $10,000 and accommodated 600 students. It was filled to capacity from the first. The course was extended to three years, and Spanish, drawing, and civics added. Among the fifteen members of the faculty Mr. Wagner, Mr. Faithfull, Mr. Twining, and Mr. Locke are still teaching at Polytechnic. Miss Kate Smith and Miss Bertha Sanborn, who left only a year or two ago, also taught in this school. In the beginning the citizens of Los Angeles considered the Commercial High School only an experiment. But under the leadership of Mr. Francis, a man of broad vision, a dreamer of dreams that come true, the little school so developed that in 1904 the Administration Building 414]H-

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