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

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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.

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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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THE FIRST SCHOOL OUTING It wasn't all work and no play that first year of San Jose High School. The impulse to go out on a warm spring afternoon and enioy the gentle breezes is a strong one, and Mr. Bowen acceded to it, on Saturday afternoon, April 30, 1864. A paragraph at the bottom of the first column of page 2 of the 7-column Patriot, issued Wadnesday, May 4, gives this account: The Alum Rock Picnic - The scholars attending the High School, under charge of Mr. Bowen, and quite a num- ber also from the other public schools, had a pleasant time on Saturday last amidst the grand and beautiful scenery to be seen in the gorge through which Penetenciary creek forces its way into the valley. We are obliged to Mr. Bowen for an invitation to partake ,of the pleasures of the day, but on Saturday we are always compelled to be occupied with more unpleasant work. This, then, was the new high school's first press notice. lt might be noted, parenthetically, that there was a private school at the time in the community, the San Jose Insti- tute, which advertised in the local paper. The Patriot, on June l5, reported the San Jose Institute, primary, gram- mar, and high school departments, examinations would be held Tuesday, Jan. 21. Plans were going forward that spring of 1864 for the new 525,000 building. The board, on March 4, three days before the successful election, had passed a resolution assuring the public that the new school would be solidly built. lt read, in part: Whereas we deem it of the utmost importance that the building proposed shall be built in the most substan- tial manner, giving, even to our posterity the evidence of our interest and zeal, in our own, and their educational welfare - therefore, be it resolved that the Board of Education will not consent that said building shall be constructed of other than the most lasting material. x.. X . 'ifbcg it 5. Ragga! X ,N . N.. ML Thr' uf,lUI'0ll,QIif f'Ifllf171IClID treo-start! SCif'llCl' lmilrlittg llUlI.S'l'll Ihr' biology, jIII!lSLU,Ql'lljJliif, clu't1ii.s'h'y and pltysitzs' c'lri.s-srrmiii.s- and Iulmratorics. Smith, Bessie . Sohm, Ella Sorensen, Mabel Spreckens, Mildred Stacy, Kenneth Steele, Rufus Stephenson, Nellie Stocklmier, Alfonso Thompson, Roland Van Gundy, Ross Wagner, Florence Watson, Muriel Whiteing, Marie Wilkins, Raymond Wirz, Edna Wise, Helen Wise, Herman Witten, Alice Witten, Winifred Wright, Eleanor Wurtsbaugh, Harold Younger, Hazel CLASS OF 1916 FEBRUARY Adams, Leland Anderson, Hobson Berrar, Arline Billings, Maybelle Bradford, Margaret Brownlee, Carl Byron, Dorothy Castro, Elvina Chesnutt, Eliza Clark, Helen De Carli, Elvira Dwight, Mariorie Edwards, Neville Freelyn, Ora Gaffney, Grace Garlinger, May George, Arthur Gondrign, John Hall, Evans Hall, Gladys Hanson, Mabel Innes, Lydia Jacobs, Harold Johnson, Elsie Johnson, Lois Kapp, Spencer Keeble, Pearl Keesling, George Kegg, Rela Larmour, Ivy Laughlin, Elsie Lord, Helen Manchester, Alice Marten, Berg McCollom, Norman McGinnis, Viola Mitchell, Anabel Nielsen, Effie Ninnis, George Nugent, Helen Peckham, Ethel Possenbacher, Elise Presho, Nellie Raymer, Madge Rikert, Myrtle Shaw, Elton Thompson, Margery Thornton, Emmaretta Troyan, Hilda Wehner, Harold Whipple, Carl Williams, Robert CLASS OF 1916 JUNE Anderson, Rebecca Appleten, Louis Archibald, Catherine Barker, Johanna Bassette, Louise Benson, Efmer Bishop, Carolyn Bishop, Isabel Bisson, Evelyn Bodley, Miriam Bowden, Jerome Brake, Clement Brodie, Roy Browningi, William Bryant, Mariorie Burlingame, Mariorie Burlingame, Ruth Burrell, Clyde Butts, Harold Eadwallader, Emma andee, Helen Canelo, Harry Cauch, Wilbur Christopher, Walter Church, Dell Collamore, Thelma Conkling, Marceille Conner, Jay Commbs, Bessie Crobaugh, Maizie Culligan, Olive Cutts, Wilbur Deacon, Alva De Carli, Adeline de la Roza, Ruth Dew, Winifred Dinapoli, Domenick Down, Ellen Dugdale, Alice Elvey, Donald Farren, Alice Finley, Myrtle Fisher, Elise Fleming, Mildred Gough, Ruth Haley, Melvin Hanchett, Arthur Hannon, Gertrude Harker, Charles Hart, Eaid Harvey, Urla Harrington, Alice Hedrick, Marion Heid, Evan Heinsen, Grace Hemphill, Marguerite Hielm, Ella Johnston, Russell Jopson, Ida Keesling, Mary Knobel, Olga Knowles, Raymond Lear, Bettie Lewis, Deskie Linton, Ethel Lotz, Mary . Lownsberry, Eleth Lundy, Bessie Lynn, Josephine McLachlan, Agnes McNary, Margaret Mahanna, Mabelle Martin, Donald Martin, James Martin, Helen Mathews, Hazel Maynard, Merlin Meads, Norma Meyer, Lois Miller, Gertrude Miner, Elliott Mitchell, Harry Montgomery, James Montgomery, Robert Morrison, Ruth Naokes, Muriel Orr, Newtan Otis, Faye Owen, Sophia Page, Milton Phillips, Andrew Phillips, Lillian Pitt ,Helen Porter, Frances Power, Annie Randall, Edgar, Jr. Rea, Mabel Reese, Merle Reinhardt, Everett Richards, Celia Roberts, Nola Rogers, Robert Rupert, Fernald Russell, Margaret Scott, Margaret Schilling, Dorothy Smith, Burton Smith, Edith Smith, Evylen Spitzer, Doris Spooner, Ethel Stanley, Harriet Stelling, Emma Sterne, Mildred Stevens, Henry Stewart, Emmett Swank, William Tenney, George Thornton, Grace Tomlinson, Mildred Toney, Kenneth Tuthill, Mary Utter, Lulu Vining, Edith Voyle, Ethel Walker, Willard Wallace, Kenneth Wayland, Charles Weaver, Ralph West, Leona Williams, Louise Wilson, Ray Winke, Leyton Woolley, Albert Worley, Mildred Wright, Irving Zietz, Olive CLASS OF T917 FEBRUARY Ahlman, Olga Anderson, May Baker, Albert Batchelor, Jessie Bell, Charlotte Bradford, Lawrence Burk, Raymond Costabel, Violette Davis, Vesta Devenpeck, Glenn Farley, James Ferguson, Allyn Fink, Charles Gemmell, William Hale, January Hall, Loren Hanner, John Hansen, Botilda Heple, Georgia Holthouse, Tessie Hopkins, lone Johnson, Alice Kluge, Kathryn Kleemeyer, Henry Lake, Helen Landstrom, Ethel Macdonald, Eualia McKown, Louis Manhire, Edna Mansfield, Delos Maynard, Harry Melbye, Louis Mitchell, Clarisse Moore, Ruth