Sherman Indian High School - Braves Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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rand were 'il in and and lay- umni cr l, clpecl it ar- Xlfen, :r re- Jfiicc living icrris .sv by L new .Wag- 'stone 'itract , 1901 . llall llall ' with k and :using ,fnflus mcnlw, Cali- eal ln- agfm, urs of - were nslilu- .' that - furl- mwlll 'AV Cx- was lf' lynflfm nflllll' l4lm'Ill5 ill' IN THE EARLY DAYS '.x. . ' JA ' Q . 1 ,A,4A V' g l -.Q U. ',,. ,W - Q-v 'vig A single student, Romaldo LaChusa, constituted the class of 1905. En- rollment the second year was 500 and the third 450. School was continued at Perrisfuntil after' the second year at Sherman. On April 1, 1909, Frank M. Conser became superintendent. Mr. Hall was promoted to regional supervisor and years later took charge of the Salem Indian School in Oregon. After the death of Superintendent Conser on No- vember 6, 1951, Carl Moore, supervisor, took charge until the appointment on April 1, 1952, of Superintendent Donald H. Biery, who is now in charge. Sherman students have actually built the institution. lnspired and trained wisely they have constructed, remodeled, enlarged and kept in repair the 87 buildings now on the campus and farms. They have built much of the furnishings and equipment. The first twelve buildings alone were let to con- tract. Uncle Sam's books show the following total capital investment for 1955: Buildings and equipment . . . 5B411,187.02 Lands, 256.17 acres ...... 89,097.20 3500284.22 Had these buildings and improvements been built by contract they would have cost the government more then two and one-half times this amount. This is shown in part by Superintendent Conser's Annual Report of 1928 summariz- ing in detail buildings and improvements for the-period 1910-1928: Cost of buildings if done by contract labor . . S578,800.00 Actual cost of materials ............ L 145,777.84 Credit to vocational students .......... i'lS255,022.16 Vocational 'training in addition to its instructional values also serves to enrich the students' standard ofliving and to reduce the student per capita cost. Prior to the World -War the per capita cost averaged S200 or less. This was later increased, for example, in 1951-52-1285 students - i p295.86. This cost is remarkably low when compared with similar cost of educating high ,school and Vocational students in public schoolsg especially so when it is realized that the Sherman cost includes many items in addition to teaching, such as board, room, clothing, amusements and recreation, medical care, transportation to and from home, guidance and placement, summer care, and repairs and improve- ments to grounds and buildings. Many public high schools with programs no better than that offered at Sherman spend as much for classroom teaching alone. -lvin fren-

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SHERMAN INSTITUTE 1901-1955 HU. SMCCKM, Rem, fn ifze Lieew of Her dlunznik 1 sl of the Sherman lnstitute IS not composefll 0 tw Suggs of the Present, the emPl0Yee5 of the past, nor tie eiilp yd t from present S1116 students she has sent ogiit and W1 sen ou It IS 1 - ' 1 i X rman ' ' ' , ' . ner uoois constitute the reall Wllilg le ettin the benehts of . tl b-, d girsw o areg ' S K 1 11133263 lieliiiilidixieeqhiigpield institution of today realize that it did not cdjme by Tnagf- If was not built Overnight' i - were the words oflV1rs. Harwood Hall, whose 1111813611141 iiiaiJdJtl?eHQTiE-:Nbcliind the founding Sherman Institute. Tlglfy V362 spoken in the course of an eloquent cributegneffore 3 umngriamglge and Fiunion SclSioTJ1lebaTiidWchoruse.s and Egggfggrgitigsfllsad damped overnight on the ground in ordlei' to talgetlpart gpuliyli ing the cornerstore of Sherman Institute Tuly 18, 1901- plaliqy if S etse b 1 had 'been among the 150 students present for opening the sc oo ep elmh ell' Ci 1902 when nothing was ready but the bare walls. lhey themselves ded 9 Pe gather boxes fo: seats, dcs.cs and tables, as most of the equipment 1 not ar- . ,. - 1 r. Chrstmas time. uw unlggrpiialriilian School had twg superintendents, lVlr.. Savage and Mr. Allen, prior to the coming of Harwood Hall in 1897: A water dispute, which later re- duced the farming area in Perris Valley, quickly convinced the Indian Uffice thats.--fthe school in that lccatipn had fllftletfututre. suggeitwll tof. IT11gV111i ' ' I. O. Ositign o ower u in eres s wi IDVGS men s in err1 EirxiicTSeClicElwZi3ei'ief'actspwere facts? and Congress was convinced sufficiently by May, 51, 1900 to make an appropriation of 375,000 for the purchase of a new site. The 40 acres now ccnstituting the beautiful Sherman campus on Mag- nolia Avenue at Riverside was chosen. At the time of laying the cornerstone the total of appropriations made by Congressreached S257,400. The contract called for 12 brick, hreproof buildings of Mission style. .f. The biys and girls who attended the Perris school from 1897 to 1901 were greatly responsible for there being a Sherman Institute. So said Mrs. Hall addressing the alumni. ' D Visioning a great Indian School of the Southwest, Superintendent Hall inspired his associates, the Indian students and the people of Riverside with the dream. Entertainments, exhibitions, displays of vocational handwork and athletic contests were used as a means at every possible opportunity of arousing interest throughout Southern California. The Perris Indian Band became famous through concerts at Los Angeles, the beach cities, the State Fair at Sacramento, and was much in demand. The football team met the larger colleges of Cali- fdi-dia in succjessful glacrlnesi The public had to be educatedl . . . well trained ln- dian boys an girls i it. ' . p - We often went to Riverside, Redlands and surrounding towns by wagon, returning the same night and getting back to school in the wee small hours of themorning .... These boys and girls knew the object for which they were working .... They had a purpose in viewg the building of this great institu- tion which was to mean so much for the future of their people, At the time Sherman was opened, 1902, the law made it necessary that the full number of pupils should be actually present in order to draw the Con- gressional appropriation.. The pupils had to be at hand whether the e ui t was or not. By March it was found that the appropriation' was practcicallgigi- hausted C f ' 1 d lg dv 6 pn usion ra e . Employees simply had to be furloughed. What was to ,c one. .itudents to the rescuel Students were chosen as teachers, matrons, lieazlsl of shops and the work went forward. The class work at that time includ- ed primary to eighth grade. Some vocational training was started and students worlied on the new grounds, buildings and equipment to prepare them f01-the nex vear. - -EL1glzieen-

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CLfSi5' UF 19674 e . V ,,g1,, ., Top row: Zhealy Tso, Fredrick Casero, Ella L. Morangofdeceasedl, Anderson Mesket, Benito Amago. G ,lliddle row: Flora Howard Qdeceasedj, Faustino Lugo Cdeceasedj, Rose Linton CMrs. Randolph Meservayl, Thomas Ramires, Mystica Amago Cdeceasedl. Lower row: Christina Curo CMrs. Iohn HutchinsonD, Harriet Iamison Qdeceasedl. ivof in Piclure: Ellen Henley CMrs. Poej, Harry'1ngraham. ' - ii-0 'il- The reason that Sherman can accomplish so much with so little is because of her wise and efficient use of vocational training both for instruction and in caring for the needs of the school. For example, the students in the carpentry class do practically all of the school's carpentry work and this in turn provides the students in the carpentry class with real, practical laboratory training and job experience. Sherman Institute is both home and mother to her students. She is in- terested not only in their character, academic and vocational training but in securing for them profitable employment outside theschool during holidays and after graduation. Anl Outing or employment system was established in 1909 to secure em- ployment and place students in work for which they are best qualified. The Outing Agents supervise the collection of the student's wages, two-thirds being held in trust for the student's personal expenditures during the school S d ' year. tu ents earnings under this supervision have ranged from 310,000 the first year to 361,000 in 1928-29. This year seventeen Sherman girls have been living in private homes, earning their way while attending publioschool F . or many yelars thi number of students living in private homes while attending bli l b pu c sc oo s as een much larger. However, this plan has worked well only for carefully selected students. ' . Until 1916 academic training at Sherman included only .primary to the eighth grade. At that time an improved course was adopted which added two ,TS-ilgs oillpghgsclaool. As a consequence there were no graduating classes in an n 1926 the high school course was increased to four years. A . Sherman assists her graduates in every possible way to go forward to higher education. For instance, this year a scholarship appropriation of 31,200 in casli, and room and board, is enabling 25 selected young men and women to attend the Riverside Iunior College A Throughout the high school years vocational training runs parallel to the academic work At present five to ' f ' . - ' ' k Eighth grade and thlou 'h h. h h lsix years o wor are offered at Sherman , ' g lg sc oo and one or two years beyond. Time 1, divided equally between academicancl vocational training. S -- Twen ly-