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

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SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL, 1868-'I898 During 1867 the school board, acting in coniunction with the mayor and the Common Council, bobght six lots on the north side of Santa Clara Street between 6th and 7th streets for 53,250 The new 520,000 building, fi- nanced bythe 1864 525,000 bond issue and subsequently called Horace Mann School, opened on Jan. 1, 1868. iSee earlier photo.l Both the high school and grammar school used the eight-room, three-story brick and stone building, with high school classes primarily on the second floor, former State Sen. Herbert C. Jones of the class of '98 re- calls. A shack in back was also used, and chemistry labora- tory facilities were in the basement, with some high school classes on the third floor, students recall. The building was too crowded, however, for the growing population. Evidence of the community's growth was the mounting list of alumni, who organized in 1879. SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL, 1898-1906 The story of one of the finest high schools in the state has been told in part in captions beneath photos earlier in this volume. Ground was broken in 1897, and the school was dedicated on Sept. 30, 1898. The course of study, which had been set at two years in 1868 and extended to three years in 1876, had drawn the criticism of the University of California as not provid- ing enough time for the adequate study of Latin. So, in 1896, it was extended to four years. Perhaps in recogni- tion of this improvement, the university sent its only pro- fessor of pedagogy iteachingl, Elmer Brown, to speak at the dedication of the handsome brick and stone three-story structure, located once more on Washington Square, now called Normal Square. The building had been designed by Jacob Lenzen and Son, and the cost, S75,000, lust matched the amount of the bond issue which had been voted. lts scope is indicated by the fact that the assembly hall would seat 1,500 to 2,000 people, The crowding had forced students to march in and out of the Horace Mann building. This would no longer be necessary in the spacious new building, the San Jose Weekly Mercury of Saturday, Aug. 27, 1898, boasted. An additional advantage was the ,fact that classes will not be annoyed by passing street cars, as they have been in the past. ' , A whimsical touch, the message presumably scrawled by a student as the 1908 building was emptied in 1952, was captured by a San lose Mercury photographer. f 'N's.a..Q- Robertson, Ruth Rousten, Mario Royal, Dorothy Rule, Gertrude Russell, Madeline Salisbury, Dwight Scales, Mayme Schatz, Hans Sharp, Adelaide Shaw, Frank Sheldon, Viola Sousa, Ethel Steding, Mary Stevenson, Elmo Stork, Marlitt Stout, Leola, Stratton, John Straub, Alwine Swanson, Gladys Thomas, Faith Thurber, Mildred VanHorn, Mildred Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Earl Walton, Adaline Walton, Mary Webb, Mary Whaley, Marcus Wlaiffen, Alice Whitten, Josephine Wilson, Caroline Withrow, Ethel Wood, lra Wool, Fred Worswick, Mildred CLASS OF 1923 JUNE Aby, Charles Allen, Margaret Anderson, Yvonne Armstrong,Catherine Arnerich, Genevieve Bailey, Charles Baker, Dorothy Baker, Harlan Bal-.er, Lenore Baker, Thelma Beatson, Norman Beauchamp, Thelma Bena, Anna Biaggini, Albert Burk, Eva Blanchard, Vivian Blanton, Bettie Bradley, Edward Brittell, Mary Brunner, Willaim Brunst, Gwendolyn Burnett, Martha Candee, Frances Carmichael,Mary Carnahan, Chalon Carroll, Frank Center, Hugh Clement, Charlotte Cleveland, Leora Cline, Mary Concklin, Florence Concklin, Ralph Cook, Alberta Cortese, Katherine Craft, Beniamin Cupples, Robert Curtis, Lyman David, Helen Davis, Paul Dee, Edith Delear, Enrest Down, Mabel Downer, Ruth Dubsky, Helen Dunn, Mona Elliot, Ruth Elsea, Elmer Emery, Allen Feltersack, Evelyn Fart, Mildred Frost, George Gaw, Harold George, Alfred Cerdts, Hermann Gifford, Mariorie Glader, Ethel Greene, Lelia Greenleaf, Charles Hancock, Joseph Hart, Evelyn Hassler, Grace Hawkinson, Lydia Henderson, Edward Hensill, Geneva Hensill, George Hepburn, Helen Heple, Earl Herold, Bertha Hill, Ruth Hinkley, Harry Holt, Laura Hunter, Ian lngleson, Dorothy Jacobson, Hilda James, Frances James, William Jensen, Bernhardt Jensen, Ernest Johnson, Edna Johnson, Noble Keegan, Wences Kennedy, Kathryn Keplinger, Lester Koeck, Ruth Kottinger, William liynaston, Marna LaDine, Walter Lanotti, Felix Lapham, Cora Lee, Beulah Lefranc, Nelty lenzen, Theodore Letsom, Norris Lewis, Kenneth Luhdorff, Anne Lyle, Leland McCain, Byrl McClay, Dorothy Mayo, Anna Menzel, Anna Miller, Charles Mills, Virginia Mitchell, Clarence Moore, Rupert Needham, Frances Nelson. Kristena Nishida, Kazuo Norris, Mariorie Norris, Clarence Nourse, Page Parchaso, Anselmo Patton, lna Pelton, Leah- llerovich, Alice Peterson, Waldo Fhilbrick, Dorothy Phillips, Herman Porter, Harry Porter, Virginia Post, Alfred Raithel, Henry Ray, Earl Reed, Warren Richards, Evelyn Richter, Ernest Ridley, Kenneth' Riesberg, Clemens Riley, Muriel Rivera, Edna May Schmoldt, Albert Scott, Ruth Sears, Pearl Seeman, Dorothy Shambeau, Rosa Shaw, Fred Smith, Elsie Smith, Gertrude Smith, Grace Smith, Harrison Solari, Theodore Stephens, Mariory Stevens, Harold Stevenson, Carl Still, Warner Sudderth, Carl Suhl, Doris Sutherland, Gordon Talbert, Blake Talbot, Esther Temple, Melva Thomas, Paul Tigner, Lola Turner, Bernice Voshall, Elizabeth Walters, Mariorie Ward, Lawrence Vvickliffe, Harry Wilde, Ruth Wilson, Wilma Wood, Hazel Wood, Walter Wood, Olive Wool, Beatrice. Wooster, Ruth Wright, Virginia Youse, Lucille Zimmerman, Elsie CLASS OF 1924 FEBRUARY Amori, Tony Appleton, Meriam Bailey, Carl Bascom, Walter Baughman, Mabel Benson, Melva Bessey, Ernest Bodenschatz, Emil Booker, Edwin Borchers, Lois Bramkamp, Lynn Burch, lla Burr, John Bushnell, Frances Carr, Etta Carroll, Clair Cavallaro, Kathleen Chennell, Jack Chrisman, George Cline, Virgil Cloke, Gerald Cochran, Edyth Coe, Henry Combs, Velda David, Ruth Deitschmann, Philip DiCristina, Charles Dobson, George Doudell, Paul Farum, Lawrence Fleming, Olive Flockhart, Jenner Froehlich, Mary Gagliardo, Emile Ginter, Ulah Grundeland, Earl Haas, Marcella Haehnlen, Albert Heitzman, Howard Henley, Mary Hicks, Lillian Hines, Frederick Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Rosalind Knobel, Alice

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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

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Knoeppel, Emma Kopp, Florence Leitch, Emerson Loomis, Dorothy Lundy, Robert Delaney, Nick De Lashmutt, Cyrus Delear, Claire Di Benedetto, Frank Doerr, Minna McCaustland, Henrietta Dubois, Clarisse Maley, Evelyn Marsh, Gertrude Mason, Lloyd Mathson, Myrtle Mathewson, Donald Mule, Lena Nickell, Marguerite Nickerson, Marian Park, Harriet V Place, Norma Putnam, Lois Ramsey, Hazel Reese, Leslie Rehdorf, Marie Ridley, Newton Riese, Walton Roberts, Marian Shedd, Louise Shultz, Pearl Southwick, Mary Sullivan, John Swisher, Gladys Taylor, Mary Trimingham, Grace Truscott, Ellard Turner, Andrew Vagts, Adam Veale, Martha Vortman, Helen Wessels, Inga White, Marvelle Willams, LeRoy Willson, Douglas, Jr. Wood, Fred Wood, Isabel CLASS OF 1924 JUNE Adcock, Clifton Anderson, Ellsene Ash, Velma Barbarez, Anna Barton, Lois Berg, Bertie Black, Frances Boeger, Evelyn Brallier, Bret Brecher, Clara , Bridges, Grant Brierley, June Brodofsky, Louis Brundage, John Brunst, Francis Buchser, Genevieve Buchser, Herman Buettner, Dora Buettner, Jewel Burrell,Kenneth Byers, Marie Bvl, Theodore Callison, Raymond Campagna, Salvatore, Campbell, Paul Campen, Helen Cardoza, Charles Carlyon, Annie Chesnutt, James Chin, Ying Cline, John Cook, Edward Cook, Ferne Cook, Stanley Creigh, Carl Cullen, Jimilla Cunningham, Muriel Curtis, Mildred Cushing, Charles Cushing, Clive Dale, Eugene 1 Duino, Yolanda Eakin, Dorothy Ebcy, George Edwards, Kenneth Eells, Harriet Fair, Esther Fisher, William Folden, Marion Fox, Richard Gardner, Loris Gerber, Dora Giroux, Ethel Goldeen, Hazel Graves, Ada Greenleaf, Frances Griffin, Irma Grigg, Marian Hansen, John Henning, Carol Henry, Hazel Herold, Milton Hill, Esther Hcrton, Lucile Howard, Harold Hubbard, Thomas Hughes, Luther Hutchins, Leah Jacobson, Melvin Jensen, Anna Jordan, Marion Jorgensen, Fred Karo, Bernice Kelley, Kenneth Kelsey, Mary Kennedy, Ethel Kluge, Edna Krause, Everett Lamb, Virginia Larrnon, Dorothy Lathrop, Howard Lathrop, Susie Liridblom, Elsie lindsay, Thomas Lir1dstrom,George Lowell, Gertrude Lowell, Mary Mancuso, Mary McCartney, Wesley McClay, Leslie McDaniel, Martha McDermott, James McDermott, Wilfrid Mclntyre, Herman Merritt, Norman Miller, Harry Miller, Harvey Mitchell, Mary Moody, Gertrude Mundorf, T. Dean Naegle,Mildred Olsen, Edna O'Neil, Robert Oppl, Valentine Palmer, Margaret Parchaso, Francisco Paviso, John Peer, Esther Pender, Mernon Phillips, Lucile Piazza, Salvatore Portal, Blanche Rabanus, Elaine Reynolds, Eugenia Rhodes, Alvin. Rhodes, Robert Rines, Herbert Roberts, John Rogers, John Q N K - -. .. K NW' , 5 'K ,Dania W AMR ' XV K , .,,..,.,,M., . L.lf'f7i '-- 1+ . ' A - i f 1. ... . . , , 1-a t , s '--f- -'f-'-r e-Q .: - ef T f .,,, . , S, ' f c... . ,. 7? 42 'M . ' 1 1 an ' as-gb Y-T . A F -...qgxlef B,,g! ' ' 'Z vi ., al , S' Q., it ' ' -www' ,.n ' :gnu 'l...n1 ,,.a-f,eQ,,., ' . . 'sth -al' ,.,nl' ,gif ' 'Nine t , L N sg 1 rg . 1-Q-- ,.. ' Twig!!-it -af ,ev 5' J , 'V , -- - a it, C, ff' . QSM., 41 -1-.cific ' ar . v ,ue ..L- -v . are-1 , se...-gi . ' ., K M H9336 ts' H ,ms . . ,V ,, - -as-r - we '.,,1 g ' - - l - A . 'S' 1 L 'll-1 . j, .. .,. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllll THE PRESENT HIGH SCHOOL While San Jose High's first separate home had cost 38,000 when constructed nearly a century before, the present structure, first occupied in the fall of 1952, cost 52,500,000 - aside from 'fees and landscaping. Kump Associates, architects and planning consultants of Palo Alto, drew the plans. The new structure won immediate recognition when it was selected in i952 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as one of the 43 outstanding American buildings of the postwar period. Still another honor was accorded the designers when, in l954, the building was given the award of merit by the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. Walls of concrete block masonry, solid grouted, were placed on a concrete foundation. An exposed sandblasted finish was used. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllIllIlIllllllllIlllllllllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll A workmen checks smoothness of the front court of the present home of San jose High School, first used in September, 1952, and dedicated Sunday, Nov. 2, 1952. The sci1ool's completion date was first expected to be March 13 and later predicted at May 19, but bad weather and a strike delayed it. e . ....-.4,.