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BEFORE ScHoo1. Morning Cltisses . . . . Brrrr . . . . lt's almost cold this morning . . , . VVe'll have to hurry .... five minutes to get to class, or we'll get blue excuses .... and I haven't that play read for dramatics either .... Have you, Mary? .... Somewhere a bell rings warningly .... Crowds drift up the walks toward the doors .... everyone chattering .... that date last night .... ex- ams first period .... I'll take my books now, john .,... A new car is parked at the curb .... Boys crowd until someone shoos them in .... Oh, john, let's wait for Ruth .... l've something to tell her .... Buses, bulging with students, crawl by like huge green caterpillars .... VVait, Mary, I gave you my geometry book by mistake .... A small boy dashes by . , . . probably a freshman who thinks he's late . . . . Say, don't we get pencils this morning? .... Stragglers trickle through the doorway, leaving the walks deserted .... An inquisitive desert bird hops up the steps to in- spect a gum wrapper, then quickly flies off at the approach of a gardener . . .
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l-1 Period One HEC' YO' UO' YO' ,OK 10' O O 0 0 'O' O U O O O' 'O' '01 'Of 'Os Administration AI. T. McRuer .................... Prinripal VV. T. Walton. . ,..,......... Vice-Principal CActing Principal after April SD Maud M. jones ............... Dean of Girls john G. Howes ....... Dean of Junior College Boairdl oil' Trustees B. Rintoul ............,.......... President H. E. Osbura ...,.................... Clerk I L. C. Graham Gladys Walker Cameron S. L. Lewis A. A. Lang CRetiringD Mr. T. lVlcRuer Early Days in Taft High Days of 1911 found the place where the buildings of the Taft Union High School and junior College now stand a barren stretch of sand under a blazing desert sun, the only life a tarantula leisurely strolling across the rocks or lizards scampering on the sand dunes at the approach of someone on his way to work in the oilfields. Taft was then a small town far out on the desert. The high school, called Conley, was organized as a branch of the Bakersfield High School. Ten students attended classes at a small two-room building in South Taft. There was one teacher, Mrs. Lavilla H. Campbell. The next year, 1912, Miss Janie C. Michaels was added to the teaching force, and the enrollment increased to eighteen. As the enrollment grew, new teachers were enlisted and new courses added to the curriculum. In 1914 there was an enrollment of forty-four, and two seniors were graduated at Bakersfield from the Kern County Union High School. lt was not until the fall of 1915 that Conley became a separate school and was placed on the accredited list by the University of California: and two years later, in 1917, students and faculty entered the beau- tiful new school buildings in North Taft. On the evening of February 22 the school was dedicated. The dedication address was made by Mr. Lawrence E. Chenoweth, County Superintendent of Schoolsg and at the end of the program a crowd of students in one section of the auditorium started a chugging locomotive yell. The entrance of the United States into the World War in 1917 greatly affected the students of the high school. Some boys enlisted, while the remaining students helped in every way to aid the soldiers. When the epidemic of influenza came on, several rooms were turned into hospital quarters. Mrs. Maud M. Jones
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