San Diego Academy - Lighthouse Yearbook (National City, CA)

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1 in courage and faith. They determined to have Christian education for their children. An empty store building at 17th and K streets was rented for S10 a month. There were windows at only one end of the building. Desks were home-made and old books were pur- chased from public schools for texts. School opened with seventeen pupils and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sanders from Healdsburg as teachers. That year Dr. T, S. Whitelock arrived to open a sanitar- ium at Paradise Valley. He too, was interested in the youth and felt that a better location should be found for a school. A little cottage was arranged for across from the G-Street Church and partitions removed to make one room. Elder Healy's sister, Mrs. Harris, became the instructor. It was the year 1906 that a large two-story structure on 16th Street, between Market and G was purchased for a school, and factory-made desks graced the classroom. The teacher, Mr. Morrison, and his family lived upstairs. School continued here two years. Then a lot was purchased on 18th street south of Market and a building erected. A long table across the rear of the room, with shelves above, and two small tables with drawers to shove under the long table, a three-burner gas stove with a small oven that could be set over one burner, were the equip- ment for Domestic Science. Here the girls learned to make soup and entrees and even apple pies QMrs. Whitlock being especially summoned to teach the last artl. In 1910 another Church School was started in a room of the old North Park Church. The first teacher was Mr. Knapp who drove to and from school in an express wagon. In 1918 the building on 18th street was sold, and with the money a 100 x 100 foot lot purchased on the north-west corner of 30th and G. A one room building was constructed on this site. Soon another room was added. Then a second little building. A Home and School was organized which gave benefit din- ners and socials to raise money for school equipment. Broth- er C. M. Hugeley, a dynamic character, came on the board and began asking such pertinent questions as: Why does not the church progress and hold its members? Because people want more than eighth-grade Christian education for their children and they move where they can get it. Why are we having dimculty holding teachers? Because we don't pay enough for them to eat properly or live comfortably or dress becominglyf' Dr. Charles Giddings, Dr. Wesley Smith, and Dr. J. W. Erkenbeck and other board members worked tire- lessly. The first year of the school the ninth grade was added: the next year the tenth. Twelve grades were offered in 1931. School at 30th and G 1-'adn' Q21-..-K . School on 18th, south of Market In 1932, the Kayless property be- tween G and Market and 30th and 31st was bought, the building moved there, and by 1932, there stood a new Academy building. The Academic enrollment was 50. Professor Richard Lewis, now head of the English department of Pacific Union College, was principal. Mr. Paul Adams, now a dentist at Redlands, built up the science and woodwork departments. Mrs. Belle Carr outfitted the Cafeteria at per- sonal expense. Elder Robert Kitto, now associate Pastor of Glendale Church, was Bible teacher. The school grew antl equipment improved and rooms were added. In 1946, this school plant was sold, and the fall of 1947 found us in a new un- Hnished in the 2700 block on 4th street in Paradise Valley. Building is still in progress. The school is growing. This year finds an enrollment of approximately 300 in the elementary grades and 110 in the Academy. Twenty teachers are em- ployed. The set of the sail: the har- monious development of the physical, mental and Spiritual powers of the youth of the Church. C. M. Hugeley School on G , between 30th and 31st x A 1

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' h ir- l 1 hi 'fx I! Q dl ni iltl I1 ni Htl wil Fir street S.D.A. Churc an Diego , il- its is 4' I! lr Ill' IB ll!! W W 411 g st 5 D A school building at Battle Creek Michigan The Centenial of Education The Seventh-day Adventist educational systems began at Bucks Bridge New York a century ago in the parlor of Henry Hilliard xsith nineteen-year-old Martha Byington presiding over a group of fifteen youngsters. The first regularly organized school under the auspices of the General and Mrs T. S. Whitelock Two-story structure on 16th, between Market and G 1 2 pl Conference Committee was opened in Battle Creek in 1872, with Professor A. H. Bell as head master. The school was an immediate success: Christian education became a vitalizing force in the Advent Movement. In the far West in 1882 Healdsburg College opened in a ten-room house. This was California's only school until 1899, when a Church School was started in San Pasqual Valley. In that same year San Diego had but one church located at 18th and G streets, with Elder W. M. Healy as pastor. There were 48 members, six of whom were men. They were poor in earthly goods but rich CD I C3 - . .- I:--Us- ' :Z-E , x I I - i I 11' gg-AT-41: -tht 4 A 1l.,. lui Z -.. 4 145 'A'-N ,. . X K-Hhlftlllm, u ,Q ' , .-' f - A I I . . - 'I ' , I if- f Q. , I .- I I L 'ell v livin ' pl I i . I' A A 3.1 pl 1 lllr M if ll H, lx . as i I, ' , ' 4 V ,lllhfj I 1 l, l 1 'F 1 i 'kr X . l ll 5 1 . - y f . I ss . A . . F I, iv ' ' I ' ilf..J 'il 'l I Cottage school house at 16th and G'

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