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

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Murphy, Merritt Nelson, Lucille Post, Asenath Price, Muriel Sanford, Phelps Sater, Edna Schein, Hazel Slavich, Mae Spooner, Ida Stewart, Wanda Summers, Esther Tonascia, Ellen Trembath, George Willson, Helen Wilkins, Ralph Waite, Pearl CLASS OF 'l9'l7 JUNE Agnew, Irma Anderson, Alice Anthes, Eva Ayer, Adeline Barraza, Manuel Baughman, Ora Bell, Helen Bertholeau, Henrietta Birk, Glen Bishop, Jessie Bogert, Charles Branch, Kathryn Brown, Berniece Bullitt, Elizabeth Burk, Leroy Butts, Lisle Byrnes, Walter Carmichael, Jake Chesnutt, Katharyn Coats, Doris Compton, Ethel Connaughton, Alma Cooley, Sedgwick Cope, Alan Cowger, Winslow Crever, Dorothy Dana, Mabel Decker, Catharine Delaney, Edward Doyle, Dorothea Doyle, Honora Driscoll, Catherine Durfee, Olive Durksen, Laura Ellis, May Ellis, Tina Fisher, Florence Fitts, Catherine Frirkinger, Clifton Freeman, Gladys Gerlach, Fred Grable, Goss Graves, Carrie C'oesbeck, Earl Gustafson, Edwin Hall, Mable Hamlin, Howard Harker, Edgar Hartley, Mary Henningsen, Louise Hewitt, Mary Hight, lnez Hopkins, Margaret Hubbard, Dorothy Johnson, Alica Johnson, Pearl Johnston, Dorothy Jurgenson, Ellen Kilburn, Gregg Kirk, Barette, Kirkpatrick, Jesse Knapp, Carol Kuehn, Emmelie La Macchia, Pasquale Lendels, Edward Landels, John Lawson, Mabel Le Mieux, Earl Letsom, Veronica Lewis, Echo Lindblom, Zelda Lyman, Georgia McAllister, Erford McArthur, Mary McClintic, Stanley McKellips, Grace Macdonald, Eileen Marshall, Wilkinson Mathewson, Georgia Maurer, Catherine Mayne, Elmer Meh, William Meyenberg, Werner Moltzen, Mariorie Murphy, Bessie Nathanson, Norman Olsen, Anna Osburn, Henrietta Otter, Gladys Parrent, Chas. Pearl, Grace Pearson, Elmer, Rathbun, Florence Reid, Doris Rosenberg, Rose Saunders, Lenawee Schellbach, Neil Scheuver, Suzanna Schein, Stella Scott, Bertha Simons, Aileen Sohm, Carl Starsnich, Helen Stern, Harold Terry, Roberta Therien, Isabel Tweedie, Walter Townsend, Arthur Wagnitz, Edith Wallace, Charles Wallace, Whittier Walter, Katherine Wedmore, Ruth Wesintzer, Elsa Westerfield, Lillian Wilde, Paul Williams, Edson Winsor, Grace Wright, Elsie Yamamota, Ai Zahn, Ruby Zcitz, Louisa CLASS OF 1918 FEBRUARY Argall, Marsden Arnerich, Pauline Ballou, George Beatty, Malva Blackie, Helen Casey, Raymond Conway, Dorothy Dougherty, Helen Duff, Frances Elmer, Wilbur Gray, Dorothy Harney, Ysabel Hathaway, Paul Hayes, Gordon Ingram, Sterling Knowles, Evadne Kortum, Mina Lillick, Vivien Longworth, Hattye Lopin, Anna Marshall, Elizabeth Metzger, Bernice Newell, Oscar Nicholls, Elsinore Olsen, Evelyn Osenbaugh, Merril Penniman, Lucinda Phillips, Charles Pieper, Marciele Putman, Harry Ricca, Mary Richards, Norman Shelvock, Myrtle Sloss, John Smith, Clara Snvder, Myrtle Trinkler, Elizabeth Wood, Marie Woolley, Bessie Wright, Gertrude Wright, Robert CLASS OF T918 JUNE Alexander, Herbert Amori, Joseph Anderson, Albert Anderson, Ruth Andrews, Sibyl Antrim, Grace Archer, Gladys Eaer, George Bailey, Helen Baker, Elwin Baughman, Goldie Beattie, Helen Socks, Lester Boden, lvy 1: Bolton, Mabel Bramkamp, Paul Brancato, Samuel Bridges, Thelma Buckley, Ellen Buchser, Anna Buchser, Emil Burlingame, Donald Caillaud, Zoe Calice, May Campbell, Ralph Campbell, Lyle Campbell, Victoria Carroll, Paul Cassin, Charles Chesbro, Lois Clarke, Bonita Claypool, Charles . Climo, Sylva Conway, Birdine Cook, Veva Culbertson, Chester Curley, Mary Curtis, Viola Cutts, Albert DeMeza, Loueva Dias, Alece Dorsey, Clarence Eitzert, Florence Ellis, Clara Erich, Reuben Fehren, Frederick Ferrell, James Fisher, Gilbert Fleming, Beatrice Fraser, Christina Freitas, Joseph Goldsmith, Mary Graham, Claribel Gustafson, Elmer Hauch, Grace Haven, Clarence Hayes, Abraham Hayes, Jan, Jr. Hayes, Florence Henderson, Ynez Hofeditz, LaVerne Honsberger, Lloyd Hopkins, Elridge lrons, Wesley Johnson, Carl S This pleasant vista greeted the student or other pedestrian walking east on San Fernando Street toward 7th Street past the 1908 San jose H :gh School campus. Advertising for architects' plans for a brick schoolhouse containing four study rooms and entry rooms was author- ized by the board on March 9, T864, iust two days after the bond election. lt was estimated that space for 375 to 450 students should be provided, despite the Rev. Mr. Hamilton's estimate of December, l863, that the school age population of San Jose was about l,OOO - with space for only 250 in the schools then. Where would the handsome new building be located? On April 6, the board first considered, then reiected mo- tions asking the city's Common Council to donate land for a schoolhouse, either in the center of Washington Square or on Market Square. Politicking was a fine art even then. An anonymous letter, signed The Architect, appeared in the Patriot, suggesting possible locations for the school. The writer, perhaps Mr. Murdoch, the publisher himself, or perhaps the Rev. Mr. Hamilton who so preferred a central location, advocated a Washington Square site in preference to a Market Square location. An architect, Mr. B. MacKay, of Santa Clara and 2nd Streets, was chosen April l3, and he agreed any expenses beyond S20,000 for the new building would be borne by him. The board on May T9 ordered published for two weeks in the Mercury an invitation to contractors to sub- mit bids by June 2. His first term as a high school principal and teacher concluded, Mr. Bowen on July 9, T864, petitioned the board to raise the teaching pay. This was on a Saturday. The board notified him on Monday that it had reiected his request. He presumably startled the board by submitting his resignation that very day. The next day, the board minutes diplomatically note, the members accepted plans for the withdrawal of Mr. Bowen's resignation as principal of the Grammar School.

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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

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The school hanlc, first set up in 1912 in a room in the tower of the 1908 structure, moved to the eannnereial building when that structure, shown ahrwe, was azlrlerl in 1914. The new ten-roam east aclrlition was formally opened an April 17, 1914. The new cafeteria apenerl three :lays earlier when a large raaf was equipperl sa students lllljlllf enjoy meals in the open air. Anatlx-er arlclitian at that time was an athletic field between 5th and 6th and Martha and Virginia streets. Below, many ,QI'lI!1ll!lfL'S remernher walking clown this .s-hazly lane of the 1908-1952 campus. 2l Jchnson, Edward Jury, John Kapp, Russell Koehler, Ava Kunze, Karolus Kyte, Luella Latta, Frances Leaf, Eunice Leibe, Sumner Levy, Bluma Loveioy, Helen Luckhardt, Mary Ludford, Grace McCarthy, Elsie McClay, Florence McGinnis, Sumner McKellips, Robert McKenna, Frances Madsen, Dorthea Marshman, Harold Mills, Dwight Minshall, Francis Monferino, Theresa Moore, Gladys Nichols, Jennie Osen, George Otto, Gene Owen, Chester Page, Robert Parker, George Parton, Ada Pelton, Ida Penny, Jane Pigott, Chetwynd Pitman, Hayden Plummer, William Porter, Robert Price, Oser Rayner, Ruth Riley, Zelma Roberts, Samuel Rugg, Isabella Scettrini, Ernest Scorsur, Andrew Seiverson, Leslie Shannon, William Shatto, Dewey Sherriffs, Maude Schumacher, Helen Slatore, Edna Smith, Chauncey Sohm, Florence Soracco, Orletta Spurway, Ernest Stevens, Myrle Stowell, John Taft, Mabel Thomas, Frances Travis, Keith Vodiansky, Emily Watson, Beatrice Williams, Saidie Wilson, Gerard Winebrener, John Witten, Muriel Worden, Lionel Wright, Frances Wright, Milton Zook, Mabel CLASS OF l9l9 FEBRUARY Albertson, Ermyl Amerine, Margaret Anderson, Edward Benedett, Lillian Benton, Elinor Berggren, Eva Bradford, Bryan Briscoe, Laverne Brown, Avelyn Burdick, Donald Carey, Genevieve Carmichael, Pierce Carroll, Mildred Carroll, Helen Chrisman, Herman Coles, George Crouser, Clarence Fink, Georgine Freeman, Lillian Goss, Elden Goudy, Clyde Gray, Laura Gray, Mariorie Hall, Beulah Hallaux, James Holdredge, Julia Hollingsworth, Lytle Lindgren, Adla Lord, Ralph McElroy, Joseph Miller, Jessie Morrison, lda Murphy, Eugene Murphy, Ruth Paull, Mary Prindiville, Lauretta Richards, Arthur Ridley, Daniel Roberts, Thelma Sanders, Esther Say, Luther Schieser, Orma Soderstrom, Ernest Sturges, Edward Summers, Frances Teresi, Joseph Tomlinson, Warren Volkers, Lillian Wasson, Virginia West, Clara West, Mabel Zanker, Curtner CLASS OF 1919 JUNE Adams, Catherine Bauman, Verona Beal, Mae Bean, Alice Bean, Edith Bonham, Harriet Bramhall, Phyllis Burch, Lois Bullitt, Louis Byl, Donald Campbell, Irene Cappa, Victor Carter, Wilda Childers, Leland Christmas, Voryl Christopher, Hazel Crozier, Etta Crow, Amy Crump, Ross Davis, Letcher Davison, Martha Dickinson, Hazel Eachus, Franklin Estabrook, Edith Fine, Anita Fisher, Adelaide Fox, Frances Fox, Sydney Gagliardo, Albert Ganshirt, Ralph Gates, Phyllis Gillhamm, Dorothy Goldman, Jacob Goodenough, Helen Gray, Muriel Hancock, Velda Harrell, John Hayes, Dorynda Henderson, Irene Hewitt, Evelyn Howell, James