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

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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

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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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Beckwith, Ruth Bowden, Lawrence Brohaska, Catherine Campbell, Ward Cambers, Lelah Desirnone, Elsie Du Brutz, Frances English, Emma Fisk, Stella Field, Bernice Gale, Helen Garcelon, Hazel Geary, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Florence Ingalls, Lloyd Johnson, Harriet Keith, May Lawrence, Eugene Lucas, Florence Miller, Grace Osgood, Marion Parkhurst, Veda Pemberton, May CLASS OF 1905 FEBRUARY Borchers, Frank Brown, Mabel Cline, Willis Crane, Floy Cunningham, Lawrenc Ellis, William Folger, Walter Fouch, Lulu Franklin, Alexander Hill, Henrie Horne, Genevieve Koch, Hilda Lisle, Howard McLellan, Gussie Menker, Edith Menker, Erle Mockbee, Henry Moffatt, George Proctor, Eva Reid, Lea Rogers, Herbert Schultz, Sadie Scott, Zoella Shaw, Mary Sinnamon, Frank Sulau, Christine Swickard, James Thompson, Roy Watson, Zoe CLASS OF 1905 JUNE sd Ahern, Frances 457' Qlahern, Mary Baker, lda Baker, Olympia Baylor, Eugenia Baker, Pearl Bronson, Crevola . Clark, Eldred Crawford, James Cunningham, Gladys Davenport, Ruth Donlon, Nellie Douglas, Charles Douglas, Katherine Dyer, Mabel Evans, Grace Flannery, Robert Gagliardo, John Granger, Edith Haines, Frank Higby, Hazel Hobson, Beniamin Hopkins, Ernest Houghland, Janet Hudson, Charles Johnson, James Johnson, John Keesling, Hector Kleemeyer, Elise Lamb, Elizabeth Lewis, Grace Lilley, Georgia Main, Gilbert Maloy, Marv McGregor, Arthur Montgomery, Eleanore Moore. Grace Nicholson, Lillie Ogden, Elizabeth O'Neale, Lila Palmer, Frederick Phillips, Luciana Proctor, Clara Roberts, Adelaide Roberts, Ruberta Rosenthal, Phyllis Rotermund, Georgia Rucker, George Schmidt, Charles Smitherum, Sara Spedden, Mabel Thomas, lva Thornton, Ray Tripp, Russell Tully, Genevieve Tully, John Turner. Lucy Waldo, June Wayland, Clyde Weaver, Emma Whitmire, Marion Wilkin, Ava Wilkin. Carl Williams, Lillian Wiltz, Lena CLASS OF 1906 FEBRUARY Cameron, Hugh De Wit, Rosalie Douglas, Ethel Ernst, Mabel Fentem, Bessie Fraser, Herbert Hebert, Louis Hoenes, Margaret Klein, Ottilia Long, Grace McCracken, Cala Morford, Myra Poore, Shiley -Roberts, Alice Rogers, Julia. ,Sh,ayv, Rena l Shumate, Anna Stull, Floyd Traill, George Vestal, Marguerite Wetmore, Clyde Williamson, Eilleen CLASS OF 1906 JUNE Barker. Earle Bayley, Ada Bevens, lvadelle Bradt, Vida Brown, Frank Burgess, Olive Butler, Nevada Croly, Sibyl Carroll, Charles Croly, Sibyl Cunha, Allen Davies, Henry Dill, Leslie Douglas, Constance Drew, Vivian Durst, Harold Edwards, Mary Franklin, Minnie Fraser, Martha Fulkerth, Alice Ganyon, Eleanor Green, Inez Hammon, Edith Harris, Grace Hartwig, Mary Healy, Ailene Hill, Andrew Hill, Frank Jones, Paul Gilmore, Ralph Kirtland, Howard Lentest, Blossom McKee, Abbie Miller, Lura Murphy, George Nims, Helen Ethel Offield, O'Neil, Cecelia Maude Pardoe. Pardoe, Reuben Peckham, Arthur Pfau, Fred Powell, Nellie Price, Odis . Preisker, William Reeve, Mabel Rinn, Ida Sacry, Ethel Shelton, Errett Sigurd, Hazel Stone, Laura Stull, Karl Swafford, Henry Treanor, Charlotte Warner, Marv Whitmire, Hazel Wigmore, Leslie Williamson, Adelaide Wilson, Edward CLASS OF 1907 FEBRUARY Abraham, Edna Boomhower, Saide Barre, Hazel Beverson, Meta Biel, Louise Boone, Esma Boyd, Harold Cadman, Gordon Clute, Robin Colley, Jeanette Crichton, Leslie DeHart, Dana lt- vert, Irma F Ying, Robert flaritton, Murie'l V Harter, MOFFISNVF r ' ., 's X Hayward, Gladys Hebert, Walter Hunt, Walter Johnson, Bessie Luchsinger, Jessie Lyth, Leola McLellan, Alice Marsh, Camellia Peckham, Ignatius , Reynolds, Truman Rowland, Clark Smitherum, Harrison Spedden, Percv Stern, Elenore Tupper, Ralph Waternman, Herbert Wolleson, Helen CLASS OF 1907 JUNE Bachrodt, Walter Beam, Sadie Bland, Lotta Boomhower, Lenorr: Bozarth, Bessie Budlong, Ethel le-we--R it - Q 151: 'IT A i '- si t . ' tg .l fi s fs .: f it ,,yeit'ad,ei if -tj . Q S , in The old Lincoln School at 408 Almaden Ave., later the central office of the San Jose Unified School District for many years, provided a temporary home for San lose High School from the earthquake until the 1908 building was completed. In 1863 the school board was busily occupied with meeting the problems ot keeping the several small school buildings in repair. Money was a growing problem. The schools earlier had been the stepchildren ot the authorities. For example, in 1794, under the rule ofthe Spanish, Bandini reports in his History ot California, there were no books in use, but primers were provided. Writing, paper was furnished by the military authorities and had to be returned when a child was through so it might be used in making cart- . ridges. School was tor boys only. The instructor in charge of the San Jose school in the previously mentioned gran- ary was a retired sergeant ot the Spanish army. Teachers knew little about teaching and parents didn't force the students to go to school. The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, who was school board presi- f dent from Nov. 3, 1862, to'Nov. 14, 1864, was deter- mined that the schools would be supported adequately. The tirst state constitution provided tor a common school system supported by money from the sale ot public lands. It also instructed that schools be a year. The 1863 minutes note time operated tive months a year. 1 In the minutes ot the June 30, 1863, school board meeting, at which it was decided to levy a tax on property to raise 54,500 tor the support of the schools, the name ot iJ. J. Bowen is listed, apparently tor the first time. He was one ot tive applicants for the position ot principal and teacher. The school district had been divided into north and south sections in 1858, and Mr. Bowen won over C. Morton, W. C. Hart, A. D. Fuller and T. W. J. Hol- brook as principal ot District 2. D. B. Moody, clerk pro tem of the board, reported Mr. Holbrook was chosen as prin- cipal ot District 1. Although the Civil War, which was destined to result in the Emancipation Proclamation and subsequent declar- ations of the equality ot all men, was then going on, seg- regation was the practice at that time, it might be noted. The school board on Aug. 5, 1863, determined that S50 a month be appropriated tor support ot a school in this kept open three months that the schools at that