Sonora Union High School - Green and Gold Yearbook (Sonora, CA)

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Progressive School The Sonora High School was fcunded in 1903 and the main building was built in 1906 by the people cf Tulcumne Ccunty. In 1916 it was made a union high school and a board of trustees was organized, of whom the members were: J. B. Curtin, presi- dent, H. O. Ball, J. H. West, Dr. D. E. Stratton, and Charles H. Segerstrom, clerk. The board remained thus until 1925, the year of Mr. Curtin's death. H. O. Ball was then elected president, and J. E. Baer took his place as a member. There were no changes in the board again until May 3, 1927, when H. O. Ball and J. H. West re- signed, and Garnet Barron and Rowen Hardin took their places as members, and Mr. Segerstrom was elected president and J. E. Baer, clerk. We, as members of a school which these men have so carefully and wisely super- vised, owe a cordial vote of thanks to our school bcard. They have given Sonora a school of which the people may be proud.

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Progressive County The progress of Tuolumne county has been largely due to the Board of Supervisors who, with keen judgment, supervise the civic activities of the county. That they are the promoters of the higher educational ideas in this county is shown by their generous sup- port of the elementary school and by their advocating the erection of a high school which was completed in 1906. Not long ago they promoted the idea of an institution for the relief of those affected with tuberculosis. With this idea in mind, ten other counties joined with Tuolumne county in the building of Weimar Sanitorium, and a new wing was recently added to the county hospital. Progressiveness is further revealed by the rebuilding of the court house at Sonora to replace the old wooden structure. The new building of brick and concrete was com- pleted in the spring of 1900. Other improvements may be enumerated as follows: the highways, which have brought in many transients and which are in great contrast to the old dirt roads we at one time had to endureg paved streets in unincorporated townsg concrete bridges which take the places of the old unsafe wooden bridges and ferries. Tuolumne county as a whole has been advanced and freely advertised through the efforts of these men who have helped in the development of natural resources. For all these modern improvements and conveniences we owe our thanks to the successive boards of supervisors. The present board is composed of: Robert T. Simmons, chairmang Frank J. Dondero, John C. Davis, Ernest H. Hodge, Frank J. Ralph. E21