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

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McMurray, Edwin Moore, Boyd Osgood, Alice Painton, Harry Phillips, Arthur Rodgers, Philip Sangster, Laura Smith, Saidee Straus, Therese Stinson, Eva Summers, Harry Tuttle, Edward Umlaarger, Nellie Van Kaathoven, Abrah Whitmire, Fred Wilber, Edith Williston, Alice Winchester, Heloise Young, Edith CLASS OF T896 Alexander, Carrie Arques, Mabel Bartruff, Zoe Beck, Edna Borton, Fred Bull, Amy Bull, Charles Burkett, Kathryne Carnes, Janie Chandler, Henry Christensen, Joseph Clement, Edith Colahan, Belle Cross, Frank Edwards, Haven Forward, Mabel Fraser, Anna Fry, Cora Fry, Ray Gill, Ernest Gliubetich, Kathryne Gray, Harold Halla, Rudolph Harter, Lloyd Hay, John Hayward, Clinton Herndon, Leroy Herrold, Roy Humphrey, George Ish, Milton Kerlinger, Rufus Kieve, Bessie Metteer, Charles Miller, Henrietta Miller, Mollie Nlitchell, Garner Noble, Pearl Parkinson, George Prusch, Matilda Ralston, Yosemeta Raven, George Stark, Mollie Thurber, Guy Tormey, James Walsh, Josephine Waltenspiel, Albert Walter, Roy Ward, Grace Weigle, Beatrice Williams, Carrie Wright, Hannah Wright, William CLASS OF T897 Abbott, Clara Adams, Ernest Alden, Mary Bacher, Bertha Bailey, Forrest Barnum, William Blauer, William Bradley, Walter Chappell, George Bassett, Harvey Bennett, Nellie Black, Edmund Broyles, Ora Conmey, Carrie Cunha, Evelyn Curley, Louise Dennison, Florence Clement, Earle Crigler, W. E. Crow, Stewart Davis, Roy Dennett, Gertrude Dimon, Lucile Drury, Mabel Flannery, Gertrude Greeley, Will Hayford, Myrtle Koch, Edith Lake, Frank La Montagne, Janet Langford, Arthur Lathrop, Winona Lathrop, Myrtle Lean, Cecil Losse, Vivian Milliken, Estelle Moore, Claude Murgotten, Francis Murphy, May Phelps, Roy Phillips, Horace Rea, Ernest Ripley, Lila Skinner, Edwin Smith, Harry Tinkham, Harry Whitmire, William Williams, Edwin Wood, Elsie Wright, Charles CLASS OF 1898 Applegate, Bessie Arques, Francisca Bernay, Sallie Boyce, Ned Braly, Edith Bragg, George Brower, Adna Bruckerman, Elsie Campiglia, Louis Cavallaro, Dominick Craycroft, Harry Dimon, Mabel Farrell, George Fobes, Maud Frost, Walter Frye, Joseph Gelatt, Iva Graham, Herbert Grimmer, Della Harrenstein, Frances Hepburn, Helen Hunt, Etta Johnson, Nellie Jones, Herbert Kerr, Jessie Kramer, Debbie Kummer, Blanche Lauriston, Jean Mabury, Laura McNeal, Mabel Moule, Irene Nelson, Laura O'Brien, Charles Rhodes, Ethel Searle, Roy Schaaf, Louis Smith, Maude Smith, Nellie Tetro, Maude Thompson, Robert Topham, Edward Vestal, Laura White, Ethel Wigle, Keith Winans, Claude Wright, Robert CLASS OF 1899 Baker, Morgan Basile, Anna Boucher, Harriet Burrell, William Brown, Charles Ecker, Edna Edwards, William Edwards, Fannie Gregg, Hugh Hayward, Mary Henderson, Cecil Jarman, Camelia Kennedy, Edna Douglas, Katherine Gilchrist, Malcolm Gillis, Edger Gracy, Mertie Hart, Natalie Hommrich, Clarrie Howard, John Kidd, Thomas Lawrence, Richard Lenz, Edward Madden, Thomas Meads, Daisy Meads, Wessie Mongomery, Seymour This handsome structure, declared one of the finest high schools in Montgomery, Coralie California at the time, housed San lose High School starting Sept Nikirk, Frank Moore, Roy Owen, Jennie Peckham, James Prusch, Willie Rea, Thomas Snyder, Gertrude Smith, Albert Staples, Thomas Staples, James Williams, Bessie CLASS OF 1900 Armstrong, Edna Bates, Olive Beckington, Olive Buller, Eva Cropley, Marshall Davenport, Nina Doud, Nettie Drayer, Lillie Emerson, Ella Edmans, Walter Faber, Mary Frink, Lester Gale, Emma Gilchrist, Fred Hathaway, Hal Letcher, llltred McWilliams, Bertha Muscio, Lillie Neuman, John Nicholls, Arthur Nicewonger, Maude Park, Georgie Purcell, Naomi Shepard, Violet Staples, Helen Thomas, Edwin Tynan, Mollie Walsh, Mamie Wehrly, Alice CLASS OF T901 Armstrong, Maude Baker, Maude Braly, Norman Belloli, Clara Bachrodt, Fannie Brooks, Ruby 30, 1898, on Washington Square. gious missions which already had been founded. On Nov. 29, 1777, young Don Jose Joaquin Moraga, commandante of the San Francisco presidio, crossed the heavily wooded area called the Llano de los Robles lPlain of the Oaksj, stopped at the banks of the Guadalupe River, and proclaimed the spot El Pueblo de San Jose de Guada- loupe. Soon 66 settlers, including women and children, made their home there. Twenty years later, vexed by annual floods, they moved the pueblo site south to higher ground. By i794 a makeshift school, one of the first three in, the California territory, was operating in a San Jose gran- ary..Years passed and loyalties shifted. In T822 San Jose pledged its allegiance to Mexico. Then, with the discovery of gold in Sutter's Creek to the north in l849, population boomed still more. The nevv settlers brought ideas of free- dom and union with them. The state's constitutional con- vention in Monterey in i849 named San Jose the first capital of the newly free territory. The legislature convened its first session in San Jose on Dec. 15, l849, and elected Peter Burnett the first gov- ernor. The city incorporated March 27, l85O, a short time after Stockton. A few months later, on Sept. 9, l85O, Cali- fornia became the newest of the United States of America, with its political center at San Jose, The axe had caused the woods to give way to grain, and stock and vegetables were growing in importance. The T798 iuzgado icity hall and jail or jug or hoose- gow was torn down in 1850, and a new fortress-like city hall took its place. Recognizing the need for a system of free public schools, the residents organized the San Jose school board on April lo, l856. In January, l857, the board ordered an S8,000 schoolhouse built in Washington Square, on the Fourth Street side facing San Antonio Avenue. This one- room building was to become San Jose High School's first separate home. ..: .- 4

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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

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QIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE E THE DAY THE QUAKE HIT E ' My older sister Hazel CBunnyi was starting a fire for break- E Sfmt, Mrs. Margaret Bunny Tucker recalls of that Wednesday 5 Entorning, April l8, l906, when the earthquake struck San Fran- E Ecisco, San Jose, and other points on the San Andreas fault. I was 5 gasleep when the earthquake hi.t. l didn't move from my bed, and E 5-Hazel stood still. A great crash was heard. over the noise of the E Esmall buildings crumbling around us. lt was the big two-story E gbuilding of the high school, crashing into a mass of ruins. The 5 Ewhole area was put under martial law and no one was allowerl 5 E in or out without a-pass. E E The San Jose Evening News reported the next afternoor, E : The High School is a mass of ruins. Had the calamity occurreci : Eata later hour, when the school was full of students, the deatl. : : list would have been appalling. 5 E A detachment was marclsccl to the High School tha' w- E E 'api y being looted. E iMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE Considerable confusion over exact historical data about San Jose High School has arisen periodically over the years. This has not been helped by dogmatically asserted statements published in local newspapers, fairly close to the years in question, without any reference to historical sources which might authenticate the statements. Often these statements overlooked directly contradictory statements published iust a year or so earlier but not referred to by the writer. Mr. Arbuckle and the present writer are satisfied, perhaps with dogmatism equal to that of misled earlier writers, that the account here presented is an authentic one. The accounts of the grading of the classes and the establishment ofthe high school are recorded in the minutes of the San Jose School Board and have been read by the present researchers. Early IVvcIne.s'r1ay, April 18, 1906, the earthquake wreaked havoc on the San. Jasc High School building. Martial law was imposed as brzmls of looters roamed Iliesite. wfrw ' -1 - .A as nuts- -ww ...ev s.- .sc CLASS OF 'I902 JUNE Adams, Irving Allen, HU9l1 Baker, Harriet Bassett, AFHY Belloli, Emile Bennett, Fannie Slayney, Nita Cahill, Clara Campiglia, 5YlVla Carey, Lillian Crittenden, Frank Cunha, Edward Davy, Charles Ellis, Helen Estes, Iva Fablinger, Margaret Haas, Caroline Henderson, Nellie Herold, Stanley Hobson, Lyndia Holladay, Harry Hubbard, Wilmer Ingalls, Elma Kelly, Henry Latta, Florence Magee, Bessie Maloy, Jeff Menker, Raymond Miller, Maude O'Neill, Kate Patterson, Edith Proctor, Maude Prusch, Nicholas Richardson, Maude Rodgers, Alice Russell, Alexander Scofield, Flossie Shaner, George Singleton, Hazel Stewart, Archie Tremoureux, Roy Watrous, Cornelia West, Alpha Wythe, Frederick CLASS OF 1903 FEBRUARY Boesch, Tillie Brennan, May Brown, Bessie Carey, Agnes Collins, Lilah Crider, Chauncey Eaton, Cornelius Flaus, Italia Hemphill, Parks Kennedy, Mirth - Lanyon, Beulah Pavne. 'Ira Lenz, Birdie McGraw, Jessie McGraw, Louise Orgren, Eleanor Pfau, Ethel Proctor, Grace Richards, Vere St. John, Mary Stiles, Jeannette Showalter, Nina Van Hagen, Winifre Wheeler, Albert Wood, Ethel Williams, Gertrude Williams. Virginia Waite, Clarence Wiley, Jessie White, Louise Young, Mabel CLASS GF 'I902 FEBRUARY Lownsberry, Lulu Van Hagen, Sayler d Poole, Myrtle Reeve, Zelma Rickley, Edith Roberts, Madge Stewart, John Stockwell, Wilda Thompson, Eva Williams, Mabel CLASS OF 'I903 JUNE Adelson, Mabel Edith Warren Allen, Allen, Baker, Arthur Basile, Julia Beverson, Letcher Brownton, Leighton Bruch, Ruby Burrel, Grace Cather, Marcia Clark, Lettie Crider, Clay Crook, James De Hart, Clarence Doud, Eva Dyer, Hattie Fisher, George Fowler, Mary Fraser, Lillian Hart, Vera Haskins, William Haynes, Grace Hemphill, Bertha Hiestand, Susie Holmes, Minnie Hudson, Lottie Jorgensen, Henry Klein, Julius Kocher, Rudolph Lawrence, Hadlev Le Veau, Elvera Lindley, Ora Lynn, Mabel Maloy, John Miano, John Molfino, Albert Reed, Frazier Reeve, Eva Roehling, Agnes Shafter, Lottie Shelton, Cortez Smith, Florence Sperry, Austin Stammer, Viola Twohig, Edward Vestal. Maxwell Whitmire, Ethel Wilson, Serelda CLASS OF 1904 FEBRUARY Bidley, Grace Brennan, Rhoda Bruch, Forrest Cline, Emma Edwards, Florence Estes, lrene Farrell, Grace Gilmore, Ella Gilmore, Lela Hannon, Ethel Jongeneel, Constance Kell, Teresa McKiernan, Agnes Mignon, Louise Powell, Dora Roberts, Stanley Symonds, Bessie Volkers, Alice Van Valer, Hester CLASS OF 'I904 JUNE Atkins, Mary Berryessa, William