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

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InM emoriam The memory of John H. Francis is enshrined at Polytechnic High School, for he was one of those rare leaders who combine great power and ideals with great sympathy and tenderness. Education and life must be brought close together, was his slogan. He saw that the old classical high school served the needs only of the few; so he developed a curriculum which would foster skills other than academic, side by side with academic learning. He saw that many young people lost interest in education between the eighth grade and high school; so he estab- lished junior high schools to bridge the gap. These two contributions to educational ideas give Mr. Francis a high place in the minds of those who study educational tends and develop- ments. But his place in the hearts of those who were privileged to study or teach with him was created by personal qualities. Vital, robust in mind and body, interested in everything, un- derstanding everybody, old or young, he was a daily and hourly inspiration to his associates. Adele Humphrey JOHN H. FRANCIS 2

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Mrs. Seyler Mrs. Shator Mrs. Shisley Mrs. Smith Miss Smith Mrs. Snyder Miss Steinberg Mr. Sundberg Mr. Siinderhn Miss Swain Miss Teskey Mr. Thurman Miss Todd Mr. Trevorrow Mrs. Tyndall Mr. Valgamore Mrs. Vandenhondt Mrs. Vaughan Mr. Wagner Mr. Waldorf Mr. Warmuth Miss Walters Mrs. White Mrs. White Mr. Winterburn Mr. Wisler Miss Wood Mr. York Mrs. L .Louise Wood Seyler, Occupational Unit Mrs. Esther Shafor, Head, Mathematics Mrs Vesta Davenport Shisley, Clerk Mrs. Dorothy Fear Smith, Physical Education Miss Julia Smith, Music Mrs. Sadie Bridges Snyder, English , , .. Miss Florence Steinberg, Occupational Unit Mr. Ernst A. Sundberg, Mathematics Mr. Ralph J. Sunderlin, Science Miss Ethel Swain, Americanization Miss Myrtle Te skey. Art Mr. William Thurman, Physical Education Miss Grace Todd, Home Economics Mr. William J. Trevorrow, Mechanic Arts Mrs. Helen Tyndall, Social Studies Mr. I. R. Valgamore, Commerce Mrs. Ruth Crouch Vandenhoudt, Home Economics Mrs. Ann Mason Vaughan, Clerk Mr. W. H. Wagner, Commerce Mr. Creighton O. Waldorf, Science Mr. Kaspai Warmuth, Occupational Unit Miss Maude Watters, Home Economics Mrs. Nada B. White, History Mrs. Rutha M. White, Blind Mr. George T. Winterburn, Head, Art Mr. Lewis A. Wisler, Mechanic Arts Miss Caroline C. Wood, Art Mr. Frederick R. York, Science 1 9 FACULTY 1935

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John H. Francis, founder and first principal of Poly- technic High School; superintendent of city schools; founder of junior high schools. Died July 9, 1934. 2 1 JOHN H. FRANCIS