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

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A. CENTURY CDF SERVICE 25 f .A A I l ill G- rl' llllvi A ll l .. '-' rl ll,,lt lxlfll twfl ll E - , l llill till Xt, l ll ll -' it I t4'l.., it me 1 San .lose High School Graduates: CLASS OF 1873 Bowman, Mary Churchill, Belle Freeman, Francis Harris, Morris Heinlein, Angelo Lucky, William Moore, Charles C. Tonner, Kitty CLASS OF 1874 Adams, Mamie Birch, Mary Poole, Maggie Reas, Carrie Ringo, Enna Spencer, Henry Willey, Henry CLASS OF 1876 Basset, Mary Bruch, Louisa Bird, Belle Buckley, William Cottle, Allie Edson, Adelaide Hart, Molly Heinlein, Anna Hixon, Mary Irish, Ella January, Clemmie Keesling, H. G. Lowery, Belle Mitchell, C. 0'Hara, Kate Rogers, Amanda Smith, Laura Willey, Mary Willey, Nora CLASS OF 1878 Birch, Ruth Greabe, William Humphrey, Alice Keesling, Alva Kelley, Cora Lendrum, Andrew Mitchell, W. J. Soper, Edward Strauss, Martha Ward, James Young, E. J. CLASS OF 1879 Blackford, Lillie Bryant, James Carter, Julia Cottle, Susie Gaston, William Howes, Laura January, John Johnston, Joseph Keaton, Nellie Kirkpatrick, Jennie Russell, Carrie Shortridge, Samuel Schoen, Lillie Wilcox, Frank CLASS OF 1880 Brown, Ada Buckley, Angus 'Coats, Jennie Conant, Ernest Delaldo, Grove Heple, Theodore Kelly, May Keinath, Julia Langhorne, Virginia Miller, Emma Phelps, Belle Pluger, Henry Pieper, Charles Schuck, Kate CLASS OF 1881 Chaboya, L. H Cory, Beniamin Crippin, Hawley De Forest, Elmer -- Duncan, George Fuller, William Hanson, Lizzie Humphrey, Ida Hoehner, Albert Kelsey, Lucina Lauderdale, James Miller, Lizzie Miller, Virginia O'Brien, Rosella Sand, John Smith, George Warren, Nettie CLASS OF 1882 Brunhouse, Mary Denne, Rose Dixon, Georgie Jones, Laura Keefe, Anna McMillan, lda Miller, Minnie Porter, Evangeline Richardson, Mary Westpal, Clara Young, Laura CLASS OF 1883 Alexander, William Baker, Minnie Baker, Nellie Beckwith, Grace Gaines, Luella Hailson, Carrie Hansen, Mildred Hellyer, Laura Keenan Annia Koening, Theodore Levy, Juliet Lusson, Adele Lusson, Cornelia McMillen, Clara Mills, Alice Needham, Carson Needhan, Lillian Page, Nellie Potts, Mattie Viets, Vern Wagener, Allan Wells, Anna CLASS OF 1884 Ayer, Henry Blackford, May Brown, Susie Crawford, Ramona Denny, Wilhelmina Fox, Charles Gillespie, Cora Hanson, Margaret Heple, Albert Johnston, Emma Kennedv. Bailey Peckham, Carrie Robb, Maggie Rucker, Susie Welch, Henry Woodward, Effie CLASS OF 1885 Baker, Milo Bennett, Evabelle Churchill, Jennie Cowan, William Desimone, Joseph Foster, George Gerichs, Kate Harrison, Emma Hatch, Grant Keenan, Joseph I .AN JCSE HIGH SCHOOL .JR 'l ll. nl ww llwtllrt , El M Y lcl '. ,url-v cl! 5-JE Ve' A! 1 Y . rl' EAHLYU july, 1912, Bell, pmurkles historical mood Where does one begin in telling the story of a high school which for a century has served its young people and its com- munity? Which of the labels applied to human beings should be listed first in this chronicle? Students, teachers, administrators, staff, school board, taxpayers, community - all are involved. So is that inanimate obiect, the building, which each year comes to pulsing life artificially as it echoes the steps, the voices. and the sounds of succeeding generations. First, perhaps, should come the community, the gathering of people in a geographic location. Then comes the decision - that a school is needed to provide more advanced training than the grammar school can provide - to prepare the young people for several paths. Some today will go onto higher education, in the comrnunity's own junior college or to the state college, in the state's university or some other fine center of advanced learning. Others will go into trade schools or vocational training. Still others will go directly into iobs in the community. Next comes the course of study, the faculty, the building, and the leaders who will bring these elements together - the com- munity leaders on the school board and at its meetings, and the professionals, the superintendent and his lieutenants who will muster the forces to do battle with ignorance, apathy, and preiudice. Finally, and most important, the walls erected, the supplies in place, the teachers marshalled, come the students who a few years hence will make the same preparations for the training of their children in the cvcle we call civilization. 8 r

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ECDCDIIK ONE TABLE CDF CCNTENTS SALUTE TO ALUMNI WAR SERVICE SPO RTS . . CAMPUS LIFE F A C U L T Y . FAMILY ALBUM

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THE HISTORY OF SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL As the students tramped up the stairs, the fragrance of fresh flour from Mr. Orbon's store teased their nostrils. Busy housewives pushed open the door and placed their orders for flour in the store, while upstairs energetic John Joseph Bowen, then 33 years old, instructed his pupils in intermediate and advanced grammar subjects. Also, with the tacit approval of Rev. Laurentine Hamil- ton, minister of the First Presbyterian Church and president of the San Jose School Board, Mr. Bowen fed his better students some work on a high school level. This is the picture painted by Mr. Clyde Arbuckle, San Jose's current city historian, of the beginnings of San Jose High School, on the basis of historical references available to him. The time was the winter of i863-64. The place was a room above Orbon's flour store, on about the spot where the Twohy Building stands today, at 210 S. First St. Across the street the noise of a foundry frequently pulled the attention of the students away from Mr. Bowen's lectures. lnto what sort of community was San Jose High School born? lt bids fair to become the Athens of the Pacific, read a contemporary boast of the '60s recounted by James and McMurry in their History of San Jose. Santa Clara Street ended at lOth Street, and business was swinging toward First Street. The entire Santa Clara County in 1860 had 2,295 families itotal population, ll,9l2J and San Jose Township alone by l87O had mushroomed to 2,547 families, or a total population of l2,525. The town already had a long and distinguished his- tory. lt was, in fact, the first civilian community, or pueblo, of the Spanish colony of Alta California. Gov- ernor Felipe de Neve had sent exploratory parties south from the presidio at San Francisco to find suitable sites for civilian communities. These, where residents would settle, raise crops and market them, would provide food and taxes to support the chain of military presidios and reli- This building, the old Horace Munn school on Santa Clara Street between 6th and 7th streets, was Sun jose High Schoolis home from 1868 to 1898. Keinath, Mabel Lewis ,Maude Matthew, Allen Maxey, Milley Moultrie, Lloyd Pitman, Belle Rich, Elmer Rucker, Lucy Simonds, Jennie Young, Clement CLASS OF 1886 Barthel, Franklin Bruce, Morris Buckley, Hannah Cozzens, Olivia Fairfield, Almeda Fruhling, Bertha Gillespie, Agnes Gillespie, May Hamilton, E. G. Johnston, May Johnston, Walter Kocher, Julia Kaufman, Winona Lenzen, Emilie McKenney, Arthur Needham, Luella Page, Pauline Promis, Sophie Rich, Ellsworth Reed, Wallace Shoemaker, Edward Stone, Mamie Toney, Elanor Welch, John CLASS OF 1887 Crothers, Will Everhart, Minnie Joyes, Maggie Kirkpatrick, May Penniman, Luther Spitzer, Mollie Weller, Edith CLASS OF 1888 Abbott, Mira Dougherty, Hugh Haydon, Harry Hanson, Eugene Lenzen, Will Piper, Oscar Tompkins, Annie Watson, Frank CLASS OF 1889 Brower, Marcus Curley, Kate Caldwell, Maude Feeley, Mamie Herrmann, Fred Howie, Leona Jefferson, Maude Lewis, Agnes McClelland, Maude McCole, Mattie Manner, George Myers, Clara Rosling, Genevieve Saph, Augustus Toney, Charles Webster, William Wise, Pauline CLASS OF 1890 Bailey, Everett Benson, Henry Borthwick, Mamie Burdick, Bell Griffith, Kittie Guibert, Kate Halsey, Mattie Hill, Hettie Hooker, Verne Kell, Thomas Kitching, Linnie Litch, Albert McGrath, Mary Menefee, Eugene Noble, Emma Orvis, Ralph Page, Alice Page, Hertha Seybolt, Fred Vostrosky, Clara Webster, Minnie CLASS OF 1891 Alexander, John Ball, Alice Benson, Frank Bishop, George Bradford, Florence Caldwell, G. H. Crothers, George Farnham, Ethel Herbert, Stella .lol-inson,,frank Jones ,Albert Koerber, Mary Madden, Herbert Maguire, Amy McClay, Arthur McComas, Henry McFarland, Robert McNeal, Elma Nash, Effie Perrin, Fleda Sheaff, Irene Stinson, Maude Vestal, Hall Weigle ,Britton Weigle, Gilbert Wood, Jessie CLASS OF 1892 Burnham, Ray Clark, George Cothran, Annie Crothers, Mary Davis, Everett Fowler, Arthur Gilbert George Gower, Ray Hendrix, Angie Hensill, John Hostetter, Alvin Hubbard, Albert Kirkpatrick, Grace Manzer, Lottie McCracken, George McGinley, Henry Nikirk, Mabel Ray, Charles Rohrback, Minnie Saunders, Georgia Simonds, Alice Takagi, George Webster, Flora Webster, Lauren Wood, Alfred CLASS OF 1893 Arques, Camillo Barker, Lucy Berka, Bertha Berka, Viola Berryessa, Emily Bloom, Mollie Clough, George Collins, Jesse Dudfield, John Gaylord, Robert Gray, Frank Green, Nellie Guilbert, Douglass Hubbard, Irene Jarman. Albert Johnson, Edgar Kiser, Emilia, Naylor, Frank Richards, Emma Roseman, Ida Smith, Edward Suzzalo, Anthony Talbert, Lillian Taylor, May Wright, Maynard Yagle, Porterfield CLASS OF 1894 Ayers, Rollin Bailey, Elizabeth Battee, Russell Beermaker, Ida Campiglia, Adalia Carroll, Thomas Chase, Mabel Christensen, Edward Crothers, Charles Delmas, Antone Dickerson, Clarence Downs, Mabel ' Doerr, Louis Dunkin, Fannie Finnie, Clara Freeman, Ethel Gliubetich, Salvo Guilbert, Josephine Hardenbrook, Gertrude Holden, Edward Hennessey, Rose Herrold, Charles Jacobs, Scott Juth, Emma Keesling, Frank Kocher, Jacob ' Lee, Jean Mason, Paul Miller, Mazie Murgotten, Edith Otto, William Raven, Frank Ray, Kittie Rider, Grace Roseman, Joe Russ, Arthur Snyder, Charles Thoits, Edward Thompson, Annie Trimble, John Tudor, J. A. Wendt, Wilhelminia Whitney, Edward Wilber, Maude Wilder, Gertrude CLASS OF 1895 Abbott, George Ayers, Harlow Bacher, Adolph Bailey, Louis Baumgartner, Libbie Beckett, George Brown, Samuel Bryan, Lillian Burbank, Everett Carlson. Jennie Carroll, Mary Christman, Mildred Cooper, Bessy Cornish, Harry Cuthbertson, Sidney Delmas, Neltie Dolley, Ray Dow, Alfred Fairfield, Hiram Feeley, Mattie Freitag, Gertrude Freyschlag, Bertha Gray, Alfred Gussefeldt, Clara Hess, Louise Howard, Lezette Koerber, Lillie Main, Maude