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

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Praising the passage of the bonds as our glorious victory, Mr. Murdoch explained that the people had okayed a central school edifice for the use of the high school. This provides concrete evidence of the campaign the Rev. Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Bowen had been waging for recognition of an advanced school. The minister had spoken energetically and enthusiastically during the winter campaign. The new school, which was not destined to go into use until Jan. l, 1868, would bring together advanced students from all over the township, not merely from District l or District 2. Steps toward formalizing the high school program had been taken at the board meeting which convened at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, l863. Mr. Bowen was obviously already coaching his brighter students in work of more difficulty, apparently with the encouragement of the board presi- dent, but some official authorization was needed. Thus it was that the following resolution was penned by Mr. Moody: Resolved that we establish a graded school. The resolution was adopted and it was moved that a suitable room for the grammar department be rented. The following Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1863, Mr. Quinby reported a room could be rented on the upper floor of Mr. Peck's brick building for S20 per month. Mr. Miles, who was present at the meeting, said he'd be happy to make the Rankin Double Desk for 55.50 each, and a motion authorized hiring him to make 30 at that rate for our grammar school. Mr. Quinby was named to prepare the room for the advanced students. The sturdy construction of the classical cloistcf' of the 1908 lmilrling gives clear eurdcnce that the-boarcl lzrrrl no intention of allowing un crirtlzquuke to clestrou San jose High School rr second time. ' T7 Mayne, Howard Mayne, Mary Meyer, Luther Nathanson, Joseph Patterson, Catherine Peterson, Hildur Reeve, Vernon Reid, Inez Reiser, Sidney Rhoads, Earl Ryan, Sidney Schad, Alma Sedgwick, Darrell Shatto, Nellie Shattuck, Mabel Simpson, Helen St. John, Bayles Tovtlle, Mildred Wagner, Clarence Walter, Edwin Willson, Stanley Wilson, Frances CLASS OF 1914 JULY Adamson, Lilburn Asselin, Homer Baer, William Baxter, Hubert Beall, Albert Belknap, Julius Berdrow, Hazel Binkley, Elizabeth Binkley, Robert Blabon, Ethel Blackwell, Lucy Bocks, Charles Bocks, Marion Brake, Anna Brake, Constance Brokenshire, Mark Buck, Keith Caldwell, Helena Carlson, Edna Cassin, Kathryn Chapman, Eleanor Clute, Hilda Coleman, Blanche Cooley, Velma Cozzens, Robert Crobaugh, Mervyn Crowell, Edith Cykler, Louise Dana, Harry Dalesandro, Mary de Wit, Alice Edwards, Eunice Elliot, Ruth Empie, Pansy Erich, Ezra Ewing, Eldred Fernandez, Urilda Field, Roy Fraser, Dorothy Finch, Helen Franklin, Lyman Freeman, Elmer Freer, Aileen Frost, Cyril Fukurnoto, June Gabbs, Ada Luella Gardiser, Gertrude Gardner, Pauline Goff, Marie Gray, Clifford Greer, Margaret Guldborg, Maude Haley, Virgil Hanner, Beulah Harmon, Marion Hastings, Ruby Hemphill, Faith Heron, Edith Hielm, Ethel Holmes, Anna James, Stanley Johns, Gladys Johnson, Joy, Eva Mary Kelley, Hazel Kerr, Mildred Ketchem, Opal Knobel, Elsie Langford, Sadie Lauriston, Martha Leavitt, Gordon Letsom, Elsie Lotz, Wesley Lueddem ann, Hillman Lund, Henry Lundy, Byron Lundy, R BTTIOUB Maciel, Mary Madsen, Maggini, Herbert Ida McCracken, Margaret McMasters, Lera McMillan, Doris McNary, McNary, James Sara McPherson, James Mercadier, Hazel Meynier, Emma Miller, Neva Morrison, Lily Mosher, Motsch, Harold Albert Olson, Mabel O'Neill, Palmiter, Paull, G Ruth Donald ladys Paull, Helen Peck, Eldon Pehrson, Pelton, Phillips, Putman, Richter, Ritchie, Rogers, Elmer Esther lva Gertrude Olive Doris Margaret Rouse, Edith Rowley, Olive Rucker, Jerome Schilling, Florence Scott, Eudora Shepard, Shepard, Shields, Ora Ruby Will Shambaugh, Helen Sims, Alta Sims, Rochester Smith, Gladys Sorenson, Einar Sparkes, Stalker, Stanton, Emily Sybil Elva Stebbins, Irma Storie, Dorothy Swall, Grace Tarleton, Lloyd Taylor, Leo Tesche, William Texeira, Tiner, Es Anthony ther Utter, Berenice Wagner, Paul Walker, Donald Walker, Weaver, Wells, Fe Wheeler, Williams, Williams, Williams, Willson, James Lola rn Rey Caroline Lora Ruth Pearl Wise, Margaret Worley, Wright, Elgin William

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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... -

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CLASS OF 'I915 FEBRUARY Ayer, Emily Bailey, Carol Bean, James Beaudikofer, Ernest Belknap, Forrest Boehme, Rudolph Breeden, Robert Brokenshire, John Cambers, Adarhyle Carmichael, Lloyd Cerruti, Vanita Coats, Bernice Col, Mervyn Cook, Clyde Fiske, Louie Foster, Eva Gonzales, Francisco Hall, Bryan Handlos, Hazel Hill, Russell Holmes, Fannie Hoover, May Huckaby, Any Jenkinson, Frank Johnson, Martha Kelley, Frances Kenville, Walter Kesling, Ernest Knapp, Helen Leigh, Huanna Marchisio, Lelia Mayhew, Clotilde Merithew, Frances Owen, Keith Pash, Madeline Pratt, Arthur Rider, John Riffe, Clarai Riley, Herbert Ross, Gladys Say, Elgie Singleton, Paul Stelling, John Sulau, Clara Theman, Ruth Towle, Mariory Trevorrow, Cora Trone, Hazel Tullar, Don Warren, Arthur Weirich, Fredrick Westlake, Alonzo Wilson, Oulton CLASS OF 1915 JUNE Adams, Bryan Ames, Estella Anderson, Edith Andrews, Jemima Angier, Helen Argall, Clarence Argall, Claud Baer, Lyla Bailey, Emeline Barker, Kathryn Barnhart, Carra Barson, Mollie Bauer, Anthony Bauman, Clara Bays, Gage Bell, Gladys Berger, Mirian Brittell, Albert Broderick, Elma Brown, Clements Burrell, Chester Campbell, Allister Cantelow, David Carden, Arthur Cartwright, Reva Christopher, Victor Cornell, Ruth Covill, Lulu Cowling, Florence Craig, Lucille Crobaugh, Julian Crossley, John Day, May Desimone, Athene Dickhaut, Marion Dismukes, Ethleen Donald, Miriam Donaldson, Nellie Dorr, Arthur Dorsam, Ruby Dykmas, Wilhelmina Ekstrand, Walter Elmer, Raymond Emmons, William Everton, GwendolYn Farmer, Clarence Fillmore, Glorian Firmstone, William Freeman, Cecil Gandrup, Myrtle Griffin, Esther Gunsolus, Gladys Gunsolus, Ruth Hageman, Glee Hall, Ethel Hall, Spencer Hanchett, Frederick Hatch, Raymond Hensill, Dorothy Horne, Cletus Humphry, Eldon Kilburn, Richard Kinnear, Helen Kleis, Myrtle Kocher, George Kyle, Colin Lannin, Francis Larsen, Marguerite Laskey, Lillie Laughlin, Gladys Lenfest, Bessie Long, Thomas Lynch, Charles McKown, Helen McArthur, William McLaren, James McNeil, Sybil Madsen, Alfred Malloch, Walter Miller, Evelyn Miller, Grandin Moody, Willey Moor,.Philip Nelson, Ina Nelson, Norman Null, Louis Ogden, Irma O'Keefe, Gertrude Patterson, Edith Pearce, Clarence Pelton, Ruth Petree, Neil Phillpis, Beulah Plunkett, Clara Portal, Emile Price, Edgar Prussia, Leland Richter, Olga Ridley, Irma Riordan, Anita Rix, Ruth Robertson, Ethel Scott, Clarisse Seely, Veva Sharman, Anna Sharman, Harriet Sheehy, Ella Sherburne, Edith Shottenhiemer, Cyril Slatore, Lee K . A dominant feature af the main central builcfng between the two towers of the 1908 building was this spacious assembly hall, shown before the upper and lower balconies were aclclccl, according to the comment of one current faculty member. A report on page 3 of Mr. Murdoch's Patriot for Jan. 6, l864, makes clear the import of the Dec. 30 meeting and is reprinted here with the publisher's own grammar and capitalization. The Board of Education have lsicl resolved to grade the schools and place the most advanced scholars in both schools in a district school under the immediate charge of Mr. J. J. Bowen, a gentleman who has shown himself to be eminently qualified for the important duties of the position. This school will be a high school lthe words high school were in italicsl -the high school of our San Jose Common School system. Mr. Murdoch then went on to report the Rev. Mr. Hamilton had urged a central location for the school and added that a room was even then being fitted out for the purpose. The present writer has devoted this space to the account of the found- ing of the secondary school system in San Jose, perhaps at the expense of space for more recent and more easily accessible data, to clearly substan- tiate the year 1863-64 as the date of the inauguration of the forerunner of San Jose High School. This date is not new - the program issued when the present school was dedicated in November, l952, clearly listed i863 as the date when secondary school instruction was instituted in the San Jose public school system. However, this fact has been lost sight of from time to time over the years. The high school paper, The Herald, in l9l4 and again in i941 listed i865 as the date of the founding of the high school, and Mr. Gosbey in his i908 history makes no reference to a high school prior to 1865. That date has also been mentioned in popularized newspaper accounts of previous years. Never before has such a volume of authentic material been gathered, with the help of those to be cited in a later acknowledgment, from a num- ber of scattered sources and published in one sequence. It can be said, therefore, that these few humble pages constitute an unique and defin- itive account bringing this school's first days to life - an account that will not be scoffed at in later years by more knowledgeable historians.