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

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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

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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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lnnes, Stanley Johnson, Alice Jopson, Frank Knapp, Edna Lathrop, Ruth Leibe, Clarice Limerick, Grace Lotz, Robert McCoy, Helen McLeod, Kenneth Maciel, Frances Maloney, Pearl Madsen, Minna Jean Miller, William Stanley Moon, Rhoda Catherine Moon, Ruth Northrup, Helen O'Keefe, Mariorie Pash, Joseph Patterson, Charles Paul, Ethel Pelton, Ella Peterson, Oscar Praetorius, George Rich, Sarah Rogers, Josephine Scherf, Elmer Shafsky, Verah Slatore, Pearl Shepard, Orson Smith, Charles Steding, Mabel Stewart, Helen Stray, George Sturges, Marian Sumner, Maurice Sweigert, Jeannette Thorp, Lillian Thureson, Henry Timpany, Charles Tupper, Muriel Tustin, Wayne Tuthill, David Ulsh, Earle Van Patten, Ellsworth Von Christierson, Frank Wagner, Doris Wagner, Vincent Wagnitz, Gladys Waterhouse, Dorothy Waterman, Gertrude Watson, Harold White, Hazel Wildhagen, Ernest Williams, Martha Winsor, Ruth Zanker, Pearl Zeitz, Ruth CLASS OF 1920 FEBRUARY Ames, Robert Anderson, Samuel Arnold, Edward Baer, Beulah Biorklund, Doris Bradley, Oscar Bryan, Paul Buckner, Eunice Burk, Dorothy Bums, Bradley Conkling, Donald Craig, Buford Cunningham, McDowell Danna, Charles Dixon, Aileen Douglas, Chesley Durksen, Arnold Elvey, Dwight Finley, William Finnemore, Amelia Fowler, Ruth Gates, Doris Gaylord, George Goss, Mildred Greenleaf, Katharine Griswold, Laurence Haas, Thelma Haley, Cecil Heiden, Marian Horton, Lois Holmes, Goldie Holstein, Sim Jordan, Maiy Kennedy, Robert La Fleur, Marie La Spada, Lavinia Livingston, Marion McArthur, Ralph McCracken, Gertrude McElligott, Merian McKenzie, Jennie Mac Quarrie, Lelia Mahoney, Bernice Marshall, Caroline Milbury, Edith Moore, Fred Nice, Madeline O'Donnell, Ellen Overfelt, Dorothy Osburn, Edna Paviso, Catherine Penney, Oril Penny, Ruth Ratz, Genevieve Ray, Melvin Rea, Harold Rhodes, Bernice Rhyne, Harold Richter, Della Richardson, Donald Ridley, Vienna Rose, Lois Rulon, Phillip Say, Ferol Scales, Tom Shepard, Stella Sigsby, Kathleen Sohm, Martha Spoon, Edward Stanley, Georgia Streeter, Morgan Sutherland, Mildred Sutton, Bernice Teixeira, George Washburn, Raymond Ward, Norma Waterman, Joseph Webster, Donald Wilkins, Roy Wright, Gladys CLASS OF 1920 JUNE Allegrini, Emma Anderson, Eunice Argall, Lillian Benson, Anna Benson, Mabel Brown, Ivor Berner, Dorothy Carkner, Edith Carmichael, George Carter, Joel Cavanaugh, Mildred Chase, Margaret Coburn, Florence Coburn, Margaret Conant, Mabel Crever, Mildred Culp, Howard Cureton, Edward Cunningham, Alice Doltin, Mildred Dillon, Evelyn Durham, Iva Farley, Mabel Ferguson, lrene get.. . , , .K Q H--sun-,.. - ,.....3l-. Vinta V6 0 this Jhoto 0 main entrance to thc S175 000 building dedicated Sept 9 19 A f 1 f ' U ' , ' . , -08 can he guessed from auto in right foregrmmrl. The three archwuys led to the mam entrance, from which three double doorways opened into the auditorium, which IIIUKISIITLII 97 by 112 feet and could seat 1,200 persons in opera chairs. Five hundred of the chairs had tablet arm rests for use in study periods. SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL, 1865l?1- 1868 Just when the high school scholars left their second-floor home is not clear. Mr. Orbon sold his flour store, and it was presumably occupied by another business. In perhaps the fall of 1864 or of 1865, the high school was moved to the one-room 58,000 structure on Washington Square which had been built in 1857. The school was near the 4th Street side of the 17-acre square, facing west, on San Antonio Street. Earlier, on Aug. 17, 1864, the board had voted to hire an assistant teacher, Mr. Mipes Skinner Dickinson, for Mr. Bowen's' faculty. On Sept. 5 it was proposed that the public schools be supplied with water. A contract for a full supply was awarded on Over, 21. Orythat same date, the salaries for teachers were raised to S60 a month. - ff' .- '. .. A The new home of the schooll -the one-room 1857 building, was definitely occupied by the fall of. 1865. On Dec: 1-2, ,,1865, the board ordered five chairs for use in the high'-sQjfJol,builoling. Flere the words used were high school rather thanb'fgrammar.schoo'l, and- this gave rise to several accounts declaring thisytobe the first mention' of ,the high school in the board minutes. ln fact, young and imaginativqwriters of an earlier era lumped to the conclusion that the school had jUst been founded, since chairs were needed. Judge Gosbey's 1908 account declared this entry merely the first mention in the minutes, and conceded that the exact begin- ning of the school could not be stated. Young Harry Farrel, then a Herald school paper reporter and now political writer for the Mercury and News, wrote a series of articles for the Herald in 1941. ln his first article, he declared the Washington Square building the first San Jose High School, ln his second artice he admitlted that the school may have existed elsewhere earlier. The grammar and high school sessions were set by the board on Aug. 17, 1866, as 9 to 10:30 a.m.,1O:-45 a.m. to 12 noon, 1 to 2:30 p.m., and 2:45 to 4 p.m. CNarrative continues on page 25.1