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

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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,.

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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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SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL, 1908-1952 A school for the ages, the 1898 structure could have been dubbed, but it was not to endure. The great earth- quake of Wednesday morning, April 18, 1906, Cdescribed, and its effects on San Jose High School pictured, on page 115 left the roof tilted crazily askew, the building wrecked. Students found temporary class facilities in emer- gency aid stations, the newspapers of the time report. Sessions were cut to half a day to ease the crowding. In the fall, high school classes were squeezed into the old Lincoln School,,at 408 Almaden Ave., so tightly that the October Bell reports girls had to stop wearing the fluffy starched skirts because of the iam on the stairways. Just six months after the earthquake, the voters, on Oct. 20, approved a 575,000 bond issue for a new and sturdier school. F. H. Allen of Pasadena designed the mission-type, university-style wings. The contract was let June 20, 1907, and Z. O. Field of San Jose was named contractor. The cornerstone was laid Admission Day, Sept. 9, 1907. An additional 520,500 in bonds for school furn- ishings was authorized March 21, 1908. On Sept. 9, 1908, a year after the cornerstone cere- mony, the new building between 6th and 7th streets at San Fernando Street was dedicated. Rough cement plaster exteriors, red tile roofs, archways and cloisters and two towers were the dominant features of the school, which was most familiar to the bulk of the adult San Jose popu- lation of today. The central auditorium was a landmark, until the clay it burned in 1935. Aerial view was taken just before completion of present campus in 1952. Julian Street cuts across center of ptoto, with girls' gym below it at right, shop areas to left. Above it are the main win,f.fs, boys, gym, and athletic field area. Total school site covers 35 acres. Ross, Beatrice Ross, Howard Rogers, Thomas Rolandetti. Arthur Roush, Helen Ruf, lrma Savage, Florence Snyder, Lester Solari, Emma Solari, Victor Sparkes, Aylett Speaker, Margaret Spottswood, Dorothy Stanley, Wallace Stark, Alton Stelling, William Stevenson, Frances Stile, Henry Straube, Gale Sutherland, Annie Swain, Vernon Swickard, Mary Sword, Elizabeth Taylor, John Thomas, Ray Tillman, Katherine Townsend, Irving Van Tyne, Onnolee Vickers, Virginia Waldorf, Stanley Webster, Josephine Whaley, Clarence Wickland, Agnes Williams, Margaret Willis, Leonard Wilson, John Wood, Barbara CLASS OF 1925 FEBRUARY Aguiar, Mary Anderson, John Baggs, Clarice Bariga, Bernice Barr, Helen Beatty, James Bell, Morlin Berry, Mary Bessey, Margaret Bodenschatz, Ruth Boomer, Allen Borchers, Bernice Brown, Orrin Burdick, Allan Campisi, Salvadore Caramella, Joseph Carroll, Kathleen Carroll, Margaret Carruba, Phillip Castle, Lorine Chandler, Wayne Chissesi, Rose Corsiglia, William Darling, Ruth Davison, Henry Downs, Marie Dunn, Chester Eastin, Natalie Erhart, Hazel Estep, Gladys Evans, George Farum, Mariorie Faser, Elizabeth Fidel, Marie Fischer, Lorene Fisher, Leeana Ford, Charles Fowler, Wynette Fry, Leland Gallardo, Griselda Gattuccio, Jasper Gerdts, Henry Hansen, Dorothy Hayes, Lucille Heine, Felcia Herman, Will Hill, Margaret Hoepfner, LeRoy Hornbuckle, Stanley Hunt, Mildred ldehara, Kozo Johnson, Frank Johnson, Lester Jolly, Eleanor Keegan, Margaret Kelty, Margaret Latta, Chester Ledbetter, Elizabeth Lee, Henry Loader, Bert Martinez, Margaret Matthews, George Murray, Mildred Paslaqua, Kenneth Peterson, Victor Pickering, Elizabeth Randazzo, Anna Reinis, Anna Rene, Edna Rice, Jessie Riley, Frederick Rhodes, Muriel Semichy, Harold Shoup, Marjorie Stawetski, Elmer Stevenson, James Stewart, Byron Syer, Robert Tesche, Elmer Topp, Thomas Tower, Edward Van, Hilda Waltrip, Clyde Wauhab, Walter Werner, Hermon Whitten, Harriet Williams, Alice Williams, Ruth Winans, Marian Wood, Kathleen Wool, Edna Worden, Richard Zahn, Ellsworth CLASS OF 1925 JUNE Acqvist-Space, Adeline Alvarez, Grace Amori, Joseph Anderson, Elizabeth Archambeault, Robley Arnold, Shirley Bacci, Ernest Baird, Forrest Baylor, Margaret Beattie, William Beauchamp, Eileen Beauchamp, Theodore Bell, Esther Bennett, Luther Benson, Margaret Berger, Lehua Berner, Mariorie Berry, Robley Blesh, Trolando, Jr. Bodenschatz, Alvin Boogaert, Johan Bowman, Bessie Bunney, Alan Burnett, Elsie Carey, Ruth Casamayou, Jennie Cavallaro, Virginia Christopher, Neva Goodenough, DorothyCline, Kathleen Hall, Robert Clough, Edna Cothran, Nancy Craven, Harold Cunningham, John Curless, Flora Davis, Roy Davis, Russell Dean, Margaret De Laney, lrma Dent, Zeno De Temple, Audre Dillon, Letha Disbrow, Walter Doerr, Arno Dooley, Helen Elliott, Robert Erickson, Linda Fair, John Foley, John Folsom, Louis Ford, Florence Fox, Theron Francis, Agnes Gandrup, Ruth Gerdon, Jessie Getzelman, Ernestine Gioiosa, Frang Greenleaf, Margaret Haworth, Edward Henning, ldell Hermann, Victor Heyden, Albert Hildebrand, Everett Holland, Margaret Hood, Margaret Howard, Jean Howard, L. D. Hughes, Hetty Husman, Walter Hunter, Leona Huston, Bernice Iliff, Pearl Jacobus, Gerald Johnston, Maisa Jones, Linda Jorgensen, Herbert Krauter, William La Barbera, Angelo La Fleur, Lawrence Laughlin, Harry Loban, Evelyn McChesney, Earl McCurdy, James Maas, Willard Marshall, John Maymont, Roslyn Mathews, Leona Matliano, Salvador Mattos, George Maxey, Frank Miller, Carl Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Violet Monnet, Randall Morandi, Aldo Munson, Ernest Murie, Clifford Myerfeld, Rachel Nash, Mary Nelson, Nellie Owen, Lucille Owens, Jeanette Payton, Arthur Pearson, Olga Peren, Vernon Perren, Vernon Peterson, Raymond Post, Janet Pozzi, Alice Ralston, Lillian Ramsay, Drucilla Reading, Ethel Reed, Alma Renzel, Ernest,Jr. Rexworthy, Edward