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

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Board. We eagerly waTched The foundaTions and framework. We counTed The days and almosT hours To compleTion of The fine modern and up- To-daTe buildings. During The summer vacaTion of 1959, we cheerfully buT somewhaT sadly moved inTo our new home. IT is quiTe imposing on a large campus which is being landscaped very pleasingly. Our rooms are lighT and brighT and our furnishings and equipmenT are up-To-daTe. BuT, aT This wriTing, we are again feeling grow- ing pains. Our number has swelled To 260 sTu- denTs, wiTh a faculTy of 17, and more expecfed for The 1963-1964 school year. ForTy-seven years of secondary educaTion for a communiTy nesTled aT The base of The massive senTinel from which iT Takes iTs name, whose loyal Bear sTudenTs enThusiasTically parTicipaTe in iTs progressive program of educaTion and exTracurricular acTiviTies and aThleTics are here meagerly recorded. We are proud of our school and our herifage. mount Shasta hlqh School 1959 - Dnesent

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school band under the most able leadership of a loved director, Charles Graham, set out to be the best band in northern California and to pre- pare music for the approaching dedication cere- monies. December 7, 1927, the new high school was completed and accepted after duly being inspected, by the Board of Trustees. The towns- people and the students and faculty were ex- tremely proud of their new possession-modern educational equipment--and prepared for all future growth. The Mount Shasta Herald for De- cember 22, 1927 quotes, These are the last High School Notes to be written from the old school. Friday, the whole student body will participate in the migration into the new building. The stu- dent body will aid in moving every way possible. We leave the old building with a kindly feeling toward it. Although it was built to accommodate less than half of the students now enrolled, the school has been very successful within its walls. Three years ago, we felt badly because we would not have a new school. Then Mr. Hurley came. He told us that a build- ing never makes a school. That a school is a group of students associated together for the purpose of gaining an education. Hhe pointed out that it was possible to have a splendid school with a pupil on one end of a log and an instructor on the other end. We appreciate the new building and the efforts and vision of all those who made it possible and we shall see that it is kept new and shall always remember that it is spirit and cooperation that makes a high class school possible. January 3, 1928, the moving was completed and not a day of attendance had been lost in the moving. The public dedication which had been untir- ingly awaited was held the evening of March 9, 1928. For thirty-two years a constantly increasing enrollment of youth, having become known as the Bears proudly inhabited their new quar- ters, an imposing and glistening structure. Faculty members were proud to be at its leadership. The eager and aspiring students and athletes brought honors in sports, band and academic fields. Pen- nants and banners of blue and gold attested their accomplishments in sports. The professions claimed a iust percentage of Mount Shasta's graduates. Graduation was always an event anticipated by the seniors. Fitting and proper exercises were held in Yreka. It was mandatory that each stu- dent qualified should be in attendance at that mass graduation of all high schools in the District in order to receive a diploma. The last District Graduation was held at the McCloud High School in June, 1935. ln the years following each high school has had its own local graduation. This was one of the steps forward effected by Jere E. Hurley when he became District Superintendent in June, 1935. Freshmen came and seniors graduated. Num- bers continued to increase and in spite of think- ing that future growth had been amply provided for, the corridors and rooms of the new 1927 building began to suffer growing pains. The in- creasing number of young people made for traffic snarls and iams in passing between classes. Classrooms became overcrowded. About 1955, it was time to think about rejuvenation and adding on to the old building or a complete new structure. The State condemned the building and dedicated it too costly to raise it to modern building standards. Thus, a new site on the Everitt Memorial Highway was selected and purchased by the

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