Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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CARL S. METZGER The District Secretary for the Newly Organized Shasta District Young Men's Christian Association Like the Y.M.C.A. of which he is a part, Carl Metzger is very much at home in Northern California. The home to which he brought his bride, after graduation from the Univer- sity of Michigan, was near the medical college and hospital area of West Side Chicago. Y work there centered around the Metzger dining table and living quarters as well as in the social and religious activities for students carried on elsewhere. The Y for medical students meant a home away from home. Later the Metzger family served as YU workers among students of South Dakota colleges, and returning to his home state of Michigan Mr. Metzger directed Y activities in high schools of two areas. In June of 1944 he joined the staff of the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. as Director of the U.S.O. Club at Yuma, Arizona, near the Yuma Army Air Field. He came to Shasta District Y.M.C.A. on November 1, 1945, to take the place of Rudy Abrecht who now is released to devote full time to the balance of the Mountain District Y.M.C.A. further south. The Annual Youth Conferences, the Richardson Springs Conference, athletic leagues, Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs, camps, and assembly programs will increasingly bring Carl Metzger in to the life and activity of the Siskiyou Union High School District. I4

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HIN MEMGRIAM EDWARD H. KAUPP 1873 - 1945 The Seniors of 1946 regrerfully announce the death of Edward H. Kaupp, member of the Board of Trustees for more than twenty-one years. Mr. Kaupp passed away May 31, 1945, at his home in Mount Shasta. The people of Siskiyou County and the students of all the high schools deeply regret his loss. The Seniors would like to state on this page a few of the facts of his good and useful life. Mr. Kaupp had been a prominent figure in Siskiyou County for nearly fifty years. He was born in Pennsylvania, July 22, 1873, and came to Mount.Shasta in 1897. He had taught school in Pennsylvania and had a life long interest in education. He was Accountant and Oflice Manager for the Pioneer Box Factory for many years, and served as Accountant and Oflice Manager with the Mount Shasta Pine Manufacturing Company until his retire- ment two years before his death. He was elected County Supervisor for three four-year terms. During his tenure on the Board of Supervisors he served as chairman several years. He served on the City Council of Mount Shasta for several terms. He served as Chairman and Secretary of the Siskiyou County Democratic Central Committee for many years. He probably gave his greatest public service in behalf of the high schools in the County. He was a strong force behind the movement for the Siskiyou Joint Union High School District System, and it was chiefly through his efforts that high schools were established in several communities of the county. In addition to his beloved wife Katherine he is survived by a son, Dr. Wilbur Kaupp of Sacramento, and a daughter, Mrs. Kathyrn Nute of San Rafael, and four grandchildren. A good and useful life may be likened to a flower. The flower grows, and blooms in all its beauty, lives its life and then fades. But it leaves its beauty and fragrance and glory behind for all who have seen it to remember. The good that Mr. Kaupp has done in this world he is leaving behind to inspire his relatives and his friends and admirers. I3

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SISKIYOU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY White men, according to recorded history, first came into the interior portion of Siskiyou County shortly prior to 1830, when Peter Skene Ogden, a trapper of the Hudson's Bay Company, discovered Mount Shasta. There was a small amount of traffic up and down the interior valleys by trappers and traders for many years, but it was not until 1836 that Steven Meek and his Hudson's Bay men entered Scott Valley. Beaver were abundant in the valley and it was trapped heavily for many years. The discovery of gold in the Salmon River country in 185 O brought in many people from the south, from Oregon and the States. The population increased greatly and many small towns sprang up. One party from Oregon camped at the present site of Yreka on its way to the Salmons and discovered gold on the flats near where the Siskiyou Union High School now stands and the resulting settlement became known as Thompson's Dry Diggins, later changed to and incorporated as Yreka. It is important to coming generations that data relating to the founding and develop- ment of existing communities and the history of those which flourished and died be pre- served. It is equally important that our pioneer fathers and mothers who settled this country, endured its hardships, and made their homes, be perpetuated in our memories. Today,s life is tomorrow's history-it is being made continuously. The purpose and aim of the Siskiyou County Historical Society is to discover, record, classify and preserve every possible link of the present to the past. Some necessary data is available in family diaries and biographies, some in forgotten documents laid away in trunks and closets and much is in the memory of our present elders who had associations with the early day settlers. When all is tied together and carried forward to the present time we will have a comprehensive history of Siskiyou County. It is a project which every citizen should support. I5