San Jose High School - Bell Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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my Mr. Bowen pitched in at once to make a success of his new duties. He soon came to the attention of the area's teachers, and, at the September, 1863, convention of the Bay Counties' Teachers Institute in San Jose, he was elect- ed assistant secretary ot that organization, the Sept. 16 Patriot reported. Then commenced a knock-'em-down, drag-'em out election campaign to pass a 525,000 bond issue to provide adequate school facilities forthe 1,000 school-age children the Rev. Mr. Hamilton said there were at the time. Current school rooms could house only 250, he lamented. On Dec. 1, 1863, clerk Moody wrote in the ornately- lettered school board minutes, lt was moved and carried that a committee of tour be appointed to memorialize the Legislature to pass an act allowing the City to issue bonds not to exceed 525,000 for the purpose. of erecting a school house, subiect to a vote ot the people in accordance with the City Charterf: Mr. Moody, Dr. Cobb, Mr. Quinby, and Mr. Pomeroy comprised the committee. This was the entrance to the administration wing of the 1908 campus. The wooden sign now stands adjacent to Bulldog Boulevard facing 74111 'Street on the present campus, which opened in 1952. --.ix K S CLASS OF 1911 JUNE Anderson, Georgia Antrim, Pearl Austin, Florence Atkinson, Roland Argall, Frank Ball, Lillian Ball, Hazel Beeks, Hazel Bell, Alice Bisson, Laura Bland, Reba Blomdahl, Meta Blois, Camelia Blum, Marguerite Bloom, Paul Bogalsky, Dolores Burns, Eugenia Burk, Clara Buzzo, Mariory Brown. Sewall Beattie, Ernest Canelo, Carolina Carroll, Mary Laura Clark, Clayton, Hazel Colley, Frances Colombet, Anita Conger, Mabel Crossley, Elizabeth Cureton, Marguerite Campbell, Frank Canelo, Adolph Crook. Ernest Coyle, Albert Crossley, Hall Deterle, Josephine Douglas, Ruth Downs, Winifred Di Fiore, Joseph Dinsmore, Welbv Enstrand, Fred Falk, Cleola Fammatre, Albertine Franklin, Stella Green. Naomi Grove, Evelyn Griffin, Graydon Harrison, Edith Hale, Edith Hannibal. Edna Hardy, Lucile Hecox, Jay Hunn, Florence Hutton, Laurel Hayes, Elystus Higgins, Preston Indra, Mollie Jones, Ralph Kennedy, Margaret Kinney, Ruth Kinnear, Lloyd Kusama, Acer Laughlin, Roberta Lassere, Adrian Lewis, Ira Lesser, Nathan Lyon, William Maingueneau, Eugenie Marshall, Margaret Marshall, Mary Mason, Grace Mock, Earla Nesbitt, Fannie McPherson, Kenneth Melvin, Edwin Miano, Rinaldo Miller, Phil Nakaya, Fusa Paull, Louisa Pearce, Clarence x. Phillips, Gladys Fierce, Harold Popp, Theodora Quigley, Eva Rathburn, lleene Rayburn, Irma Roedstrum, Lillian Richards, Alva Rice, Guy Righetti, Alfred Roberts, Joseph Rogers, Frank Sargent, Harriett Sawyer, Alpha Schellbach, Geneviev Shannon, Ann Shatto, Kate Shearer, Grace Shields, Maybelle Slatore, Blanche Snow, Alice Standley, Helen Stevens, Ruth Storie, Jessie Scott, Buron Stafford, Harlowe Stevens, Thaddeus Tilden, Leil Tognazzini, Elizabeth Tognazzini, Mary Teller, Chas. Townsend, Thomas Vennum, Cleo Weaver, Bessie Wheeler, Nora Wilcox, Edna Willoughby, Olive Williamson, Helen Willson, Ella Worley, Mary Wright, Eliza Whitman, Walter Wilson, Paul CLASS OF 1912 FEBRUARY Alloggi, Linda Anderson, Hilda Ashbrook, Elinor Asselin, George Barrett, Lenore Boesch, Claribel Botsford, Arline Boos, Frank Bonninksen, Frank Buell, Gertrude Carolyon, Ethel Clark, Wayne Conant, Ernest Culbertson, Laverne Dinnes, Bert Eastey, Lillian Faulds, John Ferrell, Frances Flower, Chas. Hazeltine, Mathew Hardgrove, Lloyd Jeantrout, Marie Kaler, James Kohl, Geo. Krause, Freyda Kusama, Yoshio Lorquin, Adele Lynn, Geo. McArthur, John McArthur, Robert Mecklem, Zoe Quinlan, Marion Rinn, Jane Rogers, Tessie Schmid, Anna Shields, Lola Springett, Fay Sprung, Stanley Terwilliger, Eva Thornton, Walter Trevorrow, Kate Vestal, Logan Walker, Rae Williams, Dorothy Williams, Raymond CLASS OF 1912 JUNE Adams, Earl Anderson, Hazel Argall, Charles Armstrong, Ethan e Arthur, Gladys Atkinson, Walter Aylesworth, Gilbert Bacon, Gladys Bane, Bernice Bauman, Lillian Beam, Ralph Bennett, Ruth Boulware, Helen Boulware, Sue Bryant, Berenice Burbank, Freeman Burkett, Fannie Campbell, Edith Campbell, Alice Carlson, Hildegarde Carrere, Leo Casley, Gertie Caswell, Cora Caton, Eva Chamboya, Elmer Chace, Derrol Coats, Eunice Coe, Harry Comer, Edwin Darke, Fred Davy, Dorothy Davy, Donald Dawes, Dolly Draper, Dave Eley, Marion Estabrook, Winifred Fletcher, Harriet French, Abbie Galbreth, Ethel Gardiser, Vivian Gattuccio, Bartholomew Graham, George Gross, Wilmer Gubiotti, Roland Hamilton, Olive, Hanson, Albert Hapgood, Harold Harker, Helene Hatch, Warde Hollmann, Esther Holmes, Ray Jenney, Ina Johnson, Arthur Jongeneel, Catherine Judkins, Myrtle Kennedy, Myrtle Ke'chen, Zora Kleemeyer, Albert Knowles, Lorine Landels, Edith Landels, William Lantz, Lyman Leake, Edith Leake, Florence McCaustland, Bessie Maclean, Gordon ' Maloy, Arthur Mercadier, May Needham, Roy Nicholson, George O'Donnell, Isabel Palmer, Frederick Palmer, Grace Peterson, Clara Plummer, Frank

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Beckwith, Ruth Bowden, Lawrence Brohaska, Catherine Campbell, Ward Cambers, Lelah Desirnone, Elsie Du Brutz, Frances English, Emma Fisk, Stella Field, Bernice Gale, Helen Garcelon, Hazel Geary, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Florence Ingalls, Lloyd Johnson, Harriet Keith, May Lawrence, Eugene Lucas, Florence Miller, Grace Osgood, Marion Parkhurst, Veda Pemberton, May CLASS OF 1905 FEBRUARY Borchers, Frank Brown, Mabel Cline, Willis Crane, Floy Cunningham, Lawrenc Ellis, William Folger, Walter Fouch, Lulu Franklin, Alexander Hill, Henrie Horne, Genevieve Koch, Hilda Lisle, Howard McLellan, Gussie Menker, Edith Menker, Erle Mockbee, Henry Moffatt, George Proctor, Eva Reid, Lea Rogers, Herbert Schultz, Sadie Scott, Zoella Shaw, Mary Sinnamon, Frank Sulau, Christine Swickard, James Thompson, Roy Watson, Zoe CLASS OF 1905 JUNE sd Ahern, Frances 457' Qlahern, Mary Baker, lda Baker, Olympia Baylor, Eugenia Baker, Pearl Bronson, Crevola . Clark, Eldred Crawford, James Cunningham, Gladys Davenport, Ruth Donlon, Nellie Douglas, Charles Douglas, Katherine Dyer, Mabel Evans, Grace Flannery, Robert Gagliardo, John Granger, Edith Haines, Frank Higby, Hazel Hobson, Beniamin Hopkins, Ernest Houghland, Janet Hudson, Charles Johnson, James Johnson, John Keesling, Hector Kleemeyer, Elise Lamb, Elizabeth Lewis, Grace Lilley, Georgia Main, Gilbert Maloy, Marv McGregor, Arthur Montgomery, Eleanore Moore. Grace Nicholson, Lillie Ogden, Elizabeth O'Neale, Lila Palmer, Frederick Phillips, Luciana Proctor, Clara Roberts, Adelaide Roberts, Ruberta Rosenthal, Phyllis Rotermund, Georgia Rucker, George Schmidt, Charles Smitherum, Sara Spedden, Mabel Thomas, lva Thornton, Ray Tripp, Russell Tully, Genevieve Tully, John Turner. Lucy Waldo, June Wayland, Clyde Weaver, Emma Whitmire, Marion Wilkin, Ava Wilkin. Carl Williams, Lillian Wiltz, Lena CLASS OF 1906 FEBRUARY Cameron, Hugh De Wit, Rosalie Douglas, Ethel Ernst, Mabel Fentem, Bessie Fraser, Herbert Hebert, Louis Hoenes, Margaret Klein, Ottilia Long, Grace McCracken, Cala Morford, Myra Poore, Shiley -Roberts, Alice Rogers, Julia. ,Sh,ayv, Rena l Shumate, Anna Stull, Floyd Traill, George Vestal, Marguerite Wetmore, Clyde Williamson, Eilleen CLASS OF 1906 JUNE Barker. Earle Bayley, Ada Bevens, lvadelle Bradt, Vida Brown, Frank Burgess, Olive Butler, Nevada Croly, Sibyl Carroll, Charles Croly, Sibyl Cunha, Allen Davies, Henry Dill, Leslie Douglas, Constance Drew, Vivian Durst, Harold Edwards, Mary Franklin, Minnie Fraser, Martha Fulkerth, Alice Ganyon, Eleanor Green, Inez Hammon, Edith Harris, Grace Hartwig, Mary Healy, Ailene Hill, Andrew Hill, Frank Jones, Paul Gilmore, Ralph Kirtland, Howard Lentest, Blossom McKee, Abbie Miller, Lura Murphy, George Nims, Helen Ethel Offield, O'Neil, Cecelia Maude Pardoe. Pardoe, Reuben Peckham, Arthur Pfau, Fred Powell, Nellie Price, Odis . Preisker, William Reeve, Mabel Rinn, Ida Sacry, Ethel Shelton, Errett Sigurd, Hazel Stone, Laura Stull, Karl Swafford, Henry Treanor, Charlotte Warner, Marv Whitmire, Hazel Wigmore, Leslie Williamson, Adelaide Wilson, Edward CLASS OF 1907 FEBRUARY Abraham, Edna Boomhower, Saide Barre, Hazel Beverson, Meta Biel, Louise Boone, Esma Boyd, Harold Cadman, Gordon Clute, Robin Colley, Jeanette Crichton, Leslie DeHart, Dana lt- vert, Irma F Ying, Robert flaritton, Murie'l V Harter, MOFFISNVF r ' ., 's X Hayward, Gladys Hebert, Walter Hunt, Walter Johnson, Bessie Luchsinger, Jessie Lyth, Leola McLellan, Alice Marsh, Camellia Peckham, Ignatius , Reynolds, Truman Rowland, Clark Smitherum, Harrison Spedden, Percv Stern, Elenore Tupper, Ralph Waternman, Herbert Wolleson, Helen CLASS OF 1907 JUNE Bachrodt, Walter Beam, Sadie Bland, Lotta Boomhower, Lenorr: Bozarth, Bessie Budlong, Ethel le-we--R it - Q 151: 'IT A i '- si t . ' tg .l fi s fs .: f it ,,yeit'ad,ei if -tj . Q S , in The old Lincoln School at 408 Almaden Ave., later the central office of the San Jose Unified School District for many years, provided a temporary home for San lose High School from the earthquake until the 1908 building was completed. In 1863 the school board was busily occupied with meeting the problems ot keeping the several small school buildings in repair. Money was a growing problem. The schools earlier had been the stepchildren ot the authorities. For example, in 1794, under the rule ofthe Spanish, Bandini reports in his History ot California, there were no books in use, but primers were provided. Writing, paper was furnished by the military authorities and had to be returned when a child was through so it might be used in making cart- . ridges. School was tor boys only. The instructor in charge of the San Jose school in the previously mentioned gran- ary was a retired sergeant ot the Spanish army. Teachers knew little about teaching and parents didn't force the students to go to school. The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, who was school board presi- f dent from Nov. 3, 1862, to'Nov. 14, 1864, was deter- mined that the schools would be supported adequately. The tirst state constitution provided tor a common school system supported by money from the sale ot public lands. It also instructed that schools be a year. The 1863 minutes note time operated tive months a year. 1 In the minutes ot the June 30, 1863, school board meeting, at which it was decided to levy a tax on property to raise 54,500 tor the support of the schools, the name ot iJ. J. Bowen is listed, apparently tor the first time. He was one ot tive applicants for the position ot principal and teacher. The school district had been divided into north and south sections in 1858, and Mr. Bowen won over C. Morton, W. C. Hart, A. D. Fuller and T. W. J. Hol- brook as principal ot District 2. D. B. Moody, clerk pro tem of the board, reported Mr. Holbrook was chosen as prin- cipal ot District 1. Although the Civil War, which was destined to result in the Emancipation Proclamation and subsequent declar- ations of the equality ot all men, was then going on, seg- regation was the practice at that time, it might be noted. The school board on Aug. 5, 1863, determined that S50 a month be appropriated tor support ot a school in this kept open three months that the schools at that

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Q Ji Reed, Aileen Reeve, Russie Reiser, Sadie Richards, Thomasyne Rogers, Stella Rowley, Lavilla Russell, William Scott, Parke Shaw, Earle Shephard, Edith Shew, Lynne Shew, George Stevens, Elizabeth Stocklmeier, Louis Stull, Robert Sunzeri, Tony Tarleton, Eber Thomas, Arthur Tonkin, Chester Topham, Roy Von Dorsten, June Wagner, Ruth Waternman, Frank Welch, Merle Wells, Blanche Wheeler, Leila Worcester, Howard CLASS OF T913 FEBRUARY Ayres, Clarence Bateman, Nellie Church, Eudora Dixon, Vida Dodd, Ormal- Fowler, Sidney Halloran, Amy Hunn, Herbert Hutchinson, Clara Lake, Rafael McLeod, Ethel Menzel, Marie Nelson, Ferne Nelson, Olga Owen, Mary Oppenheimer, Ralph Parnell, Harold Pearce, Edna Penny, Iris Plunkett, Marian Reed, Imogene Russell, Lawrence Saylor, Bertha Schumann, Harry Shannon, Marguerite Sicotte, Genevieve Smith, Gilbert Stebbins, Chester Stuart, Earl Terwilliger, Lela Thornton, Grace Trenear, Lois Volkers, Aileen Wallace, Ethel Wells, Clinton Werner, Marian Whitman, Evelyn CLASS OF 'l9'l3 JUNE Adams, John Adoraddio, Angeline Bacon, Ruth Bailey, Curtis Bailey, Wilber Barnhart, Reuby Barnwell, Dora Baumgartner, Frank Beach, Rofena Beatty, Henrietta Beiter, Emma Beuck, Henry Bishop, Esther Blodgett, Eleanor Bowden, James Brooks, Ruth Brown, Mildred Broz, Maybelle Buchser, Mary Burch, Myrtle Byers, Wealty Carlson, Carl Carmichael, John Campbell, Louise Canelo, Clarence Case, Ethel Casley, Alice Clark, Frances Clevenger, Evelyn Clifton, Sabina Coffin, Lelah Col, Louis Combatalade, Aimee Cooley, Hazel Costa, Narma Cowger, Harold Cronin, Mary Cykler, Aloys Daily, Lawrence Davis, Hazel Denhart, Vivian Desimone, Felix Dew, Helen Drew, Waldron Driscoll, Adela Doyle, Marguerite Elder, Fern Elmer, Erle English, Floyd Erskine, Nellie Farnsworth, Gladys Field, Sadie Firmstone, Dorothea Fisher, Mariory Fitch, Margaret Frost, William Gagliardo, Gladys Gandrup, Pearl Garlinger, Marshall Garlinger, Mildred Garoflo, Samuel Goodwin, Lillian Granger, Fannie Greer, Ruth Guidotti, Wm. Hamliton, Mildred Hamrnon, Joseph Harvey, Christine Hasting, James Helwig, Eleanor Hibbs, Alfred Hibs, Gertrude Humphrey, Winifred Hunter, Florence Johnson, Nora Johnston, Frank Kemble, Lucile Kilpatrick, Elora Kleemeyer, Adelaide Kluge, Cornelia Kammerer, Kathryn Kratt, Carl Lake, Elizabeth Laughlin, Reginald Leaf, Glenn Linton, Alma Lorquin, Herbert Luck, Hertha Ludlum, George Mace, Marie McCausland, Harriett McClay, Ora McCracken, Bessie McEwen, Mildred McMurray, Edith Millard, Bryant Mitchell, Almira Morss, Zelda Mott, Rodney Murphy, Howard Murray, Gladys Naas, Hazel Nielson, Alvin Oliver, Oscar Popp, William Payne, James Perry, Raymond Pryor, Lola Ray, Alpheus Regnart, Maiorie Richardson, Ruth Rhodes, Loring Rikert, Ola Richmond, Pauline Roberts, Earl Rockwell, Marian Rodgers, Teresa Ryan, Marguerite Sansone, John Schmalenberger, Henry Scorsur, Nicholas Schwartze, Eleanore Seal, Opal Shambaugh, Dorothy Shaw, Mary Sherburne, Alexander Shields, Marshall Smtih, lrba Smith, Mariorie Smith, Vinnie Stacy, Dorothy Steiger, Kathryn Stewart, Alice Stewart, Floyd Stocklmeier, Adelaide Storie, Averie Stand, Freda Sweigert, Cloyd Tourtellot, Eleanor Tuthill, Gertrude Weld, Alice White, Claudius Williams, Donald Williams, Ernest Wilson, Robert Wood, Margaret CLASS OF T914 FEBRUARY Ashton, Harold Baer, Charles Ball, Dorotha Banta, Mercedes Bennett, Emma Boyd, George Burk, Florence Carden, Olive Chase, Edith Chesnutt, Anna Clark, Paul Col, Raymond Cook, Lurene Cottrell, Clifton Cowling, Harold Decker, Mervilyn Deutschmann, Elsie Dick, June Edmond,s Dorothy Erbentraut, Edwin Fayard, Jenny Feidler, Merle Fisher, Gross, Haven, Hauss, Inman, Jensen, Johnson Johnson, Kel logg, Kirtland Lindsay, Helen Agnes Belle Bertha Orrel Elmer , Dagmar Hilding Ruth , Helen Allan Mathews, Etta Mae This view of the front eloister of tlze 1908 lnzilzling, looking east, is from tlie lzanclsome, although partially incomplete lnro- chure containing The History of San Jose lligli School, written by judge P. F. Goslzey, tlzen .S'CllU0l lloard presirlent. Tlze book- let, An House of Learning by N for the People of San jose California A.D. MCMVIll, was issued in 1908 at tlze time the new school was cleclieated. Only a few copies remain. The town was torn by section feelings at this time, during the height of the Civil War, City Historian Arbuckle recounts today. Some residents were for the South and others were for the North. The school bond issue provided an added chance for divisiveness to express itself. Some religious groups were against it. The Rev. Mr. Hamilton's Presbyterian flock, of course, supported him and the bond proposal. Feelings on many issues, such as politics, were so high that the local paper, The Tribune, violently anti-administration and owned by Mr. George O'Doherty, had been suppressed, for the second time, in September of l863. This was by order of Brig. Gen. George Wright, Pacific commandant of President Abraham Lincoln's Union forces. The Tribune ceased publication on Sept. ll and was sold to Mr. Francis B. Murdoch, who issued it under the name, The San Jose Patriot, starting on Sept. lo. We have never seen so much interest manifested in an election as was exhibited on Monday lMarch 7, l864D, Mr. Murdoch editorialized in the Patriot of Wednesday, March 9. Little boys distributed election literature and ladies urged their husbands to support it, he continued. Catholic and secession groups opposed the bond issue, he reported. Of the 5lO votes cast, there were 295 for and 2l5 against, a majority of 80. I6 a...... . . 4... -