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

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if ft-1+ 'f' . , ' A -0-'M' MZ Srtuctts .ff-Just AUDlTORlUM BURNED! 'lllllllIlllllllllIllIlIllllllllllllllIllIIIIIIllIllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllll WHEN THE AUDITORIUM BURNED lt was early Thursday morning iMarch l4, l935D ,and l was home listening to my crystal set, Mr. James Hood, then a San Jose High School student and now mathematics department chairman, recalls. My father phoned from downtown to say the school was on fire. I hopped on my bicycle and pedaled over to the school. There was a big crowd there already, and we formed a bucket brigade. The musical instruments were in a little room off the side balcony. Some of the fellows got up there and started tossing them down to the people below to save them, but there were three times as many people tossing as there were people catching, so some of the instruments were wrecked, Mr. Hood added. The staff of the school paper, The Herald, which had already been made up for issuance that day, revised the dummy to provide a full Csix-columnj banner, Auditorium Demolished by Fire, and borrowed the photo reproduced below from the San Jose News. The lead story, by Clar- ence Brunhouse, reported the damage to the school was estimated at 575,000 by the superintendent, Mr. Walter L. Bachrodt, and he noted the loss was covered by insurance. The fire, the story related, was discovered at 4:57 a.m., and it was ll a.m. before it was completely under control. Commented one former faculty member this year, in recalling what he had said on that day, Well, it's the first time the lower balconieswere, ever warm. lllllIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllIIIIIlIIIIIlllllllllIIllllllIlllIIIllllllllllIIlIIlIlIIllllIllllIIIIIlllIIIIIIIlllIlllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllll Frary, Lucille Gallup, Cornelius Garibaldi, Elvira Geissman, Margaret Harris, Ruth Huntley, Harriet Husted, Laverne Larsens, Atwel Leitch, Mariorie Lundy, Clarence McCoy, Ray McKee, Margaret McKenzie, Joseph Mason, Mildred Moody, lrwin Nugent, Donald Parkinson, Frances Payne, Charles Phelps, Marshall Provan, Francis Reese, Charles Riley, Myrtha Rose, Carl Sarzin, Alfred Saxe, Arthur Spring, Carl Singleton, Herbert Stalker, Alice Stoppelworth, Elsie Tarp, Frederick Ulm, Helen Whealen, Alice Willes, Ethel WilIiams,'Trevor Willson, Dorothy CLASS OF T921 FEBRUARY Arnerich, Vivian Baughman, Rolla Becchetti, James Berberich, Johanna Berg, Ebba Bluett, Albert Bonfantini, Evalyn Bordman, Robert Concklin, Mildred Cummings, Doris Curtner, Alberta Curtner, Dorothy Dauberg, Helen Derby, Thomas Dodds, Alice Dose, Albert Durksen, Theodore Eachus, Edith Elliott, Maxine Earman, Rowena Fisher, Diana Francis, Mildred Gillespie, Grace Goodenough, Theodore Gordon, Alma Graham, Leah Graham, Lucille Griffin, Robert Hinkle, Evelyn Johnson, Elsa' Keeley, Margaret Kemp, Hazel Kinnear, Arthur Knowles, Florence Koehler, Mariorie Lang, Richard Lanotti, Livia Latta, Willis Livingston, Charles McCartney, Helen McCracken, Thelma Melone, Ruth Meyer, Bertram Millard, Roger Nelson, Esther Ochsner, Mabel Paine, Sebra Parcell, James Parkinson, Elizabeth Paterson, Douglas Pennington, Thelma Peter, Erna Pye, Thomas Reichmuth, Anton Richmond, Velma Saveker, Mariorie Saxe, Alfred Sharp, Robert Silver, Charles Snitier, William Stone, Marion Stoppleworth, Mabel Sumner, William Tarleton, Edward Therien, Josephine Valine, Adalene Van Gundy, Kenneth Van Gundy, Zelma Voss, Roy White, Evelyn Wildhagen, Emily Wilson, Maude Wood, Maurice CLASS OF 1921 JUNE Aitken, Gladys Anderson, Ruby Bailey, James Biebrach, Wilna Bolei, William Borchers, Walter Broderick, Harold Brokenshire, Wesley Brolly, Archibald Brooks, Phillip Brown, Mariorie Brubaker, Betty Callison, Robert Carmichael, William Carter, Julia Chamney, Alice Chase, Howard Christmas, Geneva Christopher, Lena Coe, Helen Crever, Fred Crobaugh, Alva Crummey, Elizabeth Curtner, Margaret D'Anna, Joseph Decker, Ethel Dias, Paul Dorsy, Davis Doty, Paul Down, Alice Driscoll, John Durfee, Florence Fancher, Gladys Farnsworth, Ruth Ferreira, Marie Finley, Anna Fisher, Beatrice Foster, Marion Fox, Elizabeth Frary, Ramona Freeman, Russell Gerig, William Goddard, Ruby Goldberg, Frances Greer, William Grimmer, Lula Griner, Donald Hampsch, Dorothy Hanson, Reginald Hartley, Ollie Hallman, Naomi Hatzfeld, Beatrice Howe, Fola Humburg, Paull Irwin, Angie Jennings, Ida Jorgensen, Ida Keaton, Harriett Keeble, Edward Keesling, Wana Kemp, Lousie Knobel, Harriet Loomis, Ruth Loper, George Luckhardt, Charles McCollum, Charlie Marks, Doris Miller, Esther Mitchell, Roberta Moore, Robert Morgan, Grace Morrison, Albert Myrick, Thelma Nelson, Carl Nisonger, Newton Olsen, Arlie Olsen, Dorothy Overfelt, Harlod Owen, Evelyn Pace, Glenn Patterson, Florence Perry, Doris Ramer, Rex Reynolds, Vesta Rumbek, Lucile Samuelsen, Mildred Sanguinetti, Paul Saulcy, William Schneider, Vivian Shank, Elroy Shultz, Myrtle Solari, Louis Still, Ernest Stockton, Gladys Sutton, Arnold Taylor, Earle Teel, Leta Tonkin, Helen Tree, Warren Usinger, Dorothy Weir, Jewel Whitaker, Andrew Wight, Mae Wilcutt, Bessie Williams, Harry Williams, John Wright, Ralph Wuhrman, Henry Zimmermann, Mary CLASS OF 1922 FEBRUARY Achilles, Theodore Acosta, Lillian Baker, Bliss Bean, Charles Beatty, Edith Belloli, Ruth Bell, Bertha Bridges, Lois Buchanan, Duncan Burchell, Vivian Butzbach, Arthur Carey, Walton Clarke, James Collvier, Harriett Cozzens, Bradley Crossley, Keith Crump, Margaret Curtis, Dorothy Cykler, Edmund David, Helen Davis, Roland Davis, George Dubois, William Fair, Dorothy Fancher, Claude Farman, Carl Fetzer, August Fonda, Ralph

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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

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Gandrup, Vernon Goodenough, Eva Graves, Hardinia Groesbeck, William Grose, Myrtle Halstead, Mariorie Harrington, Ruth Harter, Leah Hayes, Margaret Hilton, Fred Hines, Don Howell, Glenn Keast, Gladys llehl, Joseph Kesling, Marcia Kimball, Willard Koehler, Leota Kooser, Wardwell Lindblom, Vincent Lisle, Beatrice McMurray, Raymond Mitchell, Pierce Monferino, Louis, Jr. Moore, Robert Musick, Emily Naas, Alwlida Neel, lrene Northup, Eldred Oteri, Jane Park, Virginia Perovich, Mary Perovich, Paul Ponica, Dominic Pond, Charles Raggio, Genevieve Roberts, Dorothy Rohrbacher, Alan Rondoni, Lena Schoen, Arthur Schoenheit, Helen Schwitzgebel, Alice Schwartze, Karl Smith, Teresa Sorracco, Susan Storie, William Still, Ellen Thies, William Toy, Clarence Voss, lna Walker, Harold West, Mildred Willson, Arthur Wilson, Harold Winter, Eva Wright, Dorothy CLASS OF 1922 JUNE Adam, Opal Bailey, Ruth Bayle, Augustin Bequette, Alfred Bolei,CIara Boyes,Joseph Busch, Mildred Busiaeger, Anna Chope, Harold Combatalade, Celine Crist, Margaret Croney, Oliver Crummey, Faith Curtner, Helen Davis, Elva Dickinson, Vivian Donald, Charles Downing, Lois Eardley, George Farley, Laura Ferreira, Elizabeth Frasse, Irvin Fry, Druscilla Fuller, Grace Goostree, Frances Greenleaf, Esther Gritfen, Leela Griffin, Gertrude Grigg, Cavie Guilbault, Margaret Hablutzel, Charles Harris, Lottie Hawes, Harry Heath, Helen Helm, Madeleine Hotchkiss, Donald Howell, Helen Hunter, Raymond Johnson,Ebba Johnson, Evelyn Johnson, Kenneth Johnson, Melvin Johnson, Selma A. Johnson, Selma Betty Jones, Edward Kelley, Vera Knapp, Thelma Lindstrom, Alvin Knopp, Cleoria Lake, Genevieve Langley, Rolland Lathrop, Helen Lawrence, Maybelle Lewis, Ray Lighttoot,Vera Lindblorn, Eugene Lundy, Herman McCain, Thomas McChesney, Carol McDougall, Kenneth MacLean, Dorothy MacLean, Elsie Mathews, Gladys Meinecke, Edna Michell, Joseph Miller, Marguerite Moak, Loren Moore, Laura Moore, Mildred Murison, Edwin Nelson, Helen Nelson, Verda Nicholson, Marion Olsen, lone Pace, Marie Palm, Juanita Park, Wayne Provan, Katherine Reiff, Emilie Rhodes, Marian Ridley, Minnie Riesberg, Hazel Rubino, James Russell, Elwood Sanders, John Scott, Franziska Shannon, Mary Sonniksen, Helen Souders, Helen Stengel, Mildred Stewart, Dorothy Truscott, Priscilla Vogt, Erncst Wilt, Kenneth Zingheim, Victoria CLASS OF 1923 FEBRUARY Adam, Bertha Allen, Eveleen Anderson, John Armetta, Ruth Atkinson, Charlotte Barker, Dorothy Barnwell, Thelma Barr, Dorothy Bennetts, Robert Benson, Florence Berner, Hubert Bettinger, Juliet Blanchard, Miriam Bliss, George Bowden, Elise Brancato, Paul Bridges, Shirley Brister, Ruth Brooks, Alice Brooks, Esther Brown, Charles Bryant, Howard Buchanan, Mercedes Buchser, Emma Buck, Lee Bunting, Alice Byl, Frederick Caldwell, Arthur Carmichael, Arthur Chase, Margaret Chiappino, Lawrence Christianson, Blanche Clark, Harold del-legy, Fairis DeLaCruz, Cecilia DeVincenzi, George DuCavic, Rhea Eaton, Frances Edsinger, Mabel Engelhardt, Ruth Ent, Caroline Fallon, Claire Fehren, Richard ' Fisher, Joseph Fleming, Evelyn Florey, Royal Foley, Thomas French, Mildred Frost, Margaret Fuhrman, Elizabeth Gerlach, Alice Grigg, Edith Haas, Norma Hargreaves, Odeal Harris, Leah Hassler, Lucille Heple, Helen Herschbach, Roberta Hough, Caryl Jaca, Antonio Jaca, Martin Jackson, Ellsworth Jett, Finis Johnson, Samuel Johnston, Helen Kesling, Eileen Knowles, Marian Koeck, Josephine LaDine, Hazel Langfield, Alvin LaSpada, Aurora Lean, Elizabeth Levin, Bertha Lotz, Nell Martin, Nellie Mathews, Ellen Mathewson, Kathryn Maxey, Elizabeth Maynard, Frederick McDonald, Clyde McKean, Floyd Meyer, Herbert Miller, Edward Minor, Rhodes Moore, Myra O'Neil, Agnes Owen, Eleanor Parkinson, Helen Pavely, Anne Pigott, Gwenneth Puck, Emerson Pyle, Florence Reed, Charles Reynolds, Lois Robb, Gladys An archway provides a frame for the dramatic photo above of one end of the sturdy building which housed San lose High School from 1908 to 1952. The school board, in providing for the thick walls and arched cloisters, modeled the building after the Franciscan missions which so successfully withstood the weathering of the years, the heat and rain of the California climate, and the earthquakes which sometimes rattled the countryside. Mr. F. S. Allen, Pasadena architect, remembered the claims that had been made for the 1898 building and what the 1906 earthquake did to it, in assuring that the catastrophe would not be repeated. What nature and the 1935 auditorium fire could not do, the needs of the expanding San lose State College for space succeeded in doing. The state, which had given the high school permission, by act of the State Legislature, to build on the state college land, withdrew its hospitality and ordered the school razed. Below, where students once trod, the wreckers' trucks roll. I ,. --W 4-.- , ' ' ,ff , ' , 'i , 'A . I , ' A but at q,mw,,,, nl JH ,f