Victor Valley High School - Joshua Tree Yearbook (Victorville, CA)

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, il' V its A 7 e , x 4-1 1' FRANKLIN EVANS, Pres. WALTER CAMPBELL, V Pres MARY HORNBY Sec y Treas CECIL TYLER, Advisor TIIE I-RESIINEN After submitting, though not without a struggle, to the initiation punishments inflicted by the Sophomores, we grew very studious and plunged into our texts and notebooks for some intensive work the first semesterg we just didn't have time to go social with all the work these high school teachers piled on us. But in April we emerged for a swell hamburger fry given by the losers in the dues contest to the winners. Soon after this we published our Freshman paper, something no other Freshman class has ever done, so naturally we're proud of it. Plans are now under way for an assembly program to be put on in the near future. We have surely en- joyed our first year here at Victor High and we're looking for- ward to coming back next fall as full-fledged Sophomores- and what an initiation we have up our sleeves for next year's Froshl

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1 ff . BILLY VERNON, Pres. CHARLOTTE WALKER, V.-Pres. IEANNE C-ODSHALL, Sec'y. MARY DUNHAM, Treas. MARY BIGELOW, Advisor. g,,,5,:g ff, Qf 1' ff' - gf, if J , 1, iff' I I ,f 2 Q . Q52- 3 :- 4712 24 Tl-IE SOPI-IOMORES Say, you Frosh, you don't know what a really SWELL feeling is until you come back to high school your second year and initiate a bunch of green Freshmen. We did that little job up brown on September 20. Then on Friday, October 4, we staged a benefit dance to raise money for a regular dance to be given in November. The Seniors took us under their pro- tecting wings and entertained us at Campbell's on November l. Our harvest dance early in November was acclaimed unique by the student body. We racked our brains for a clever as- sembly idea-then we got it--television! The Sophomore Val- entine paper practically depleted Miss Bigelow's supply of red crayons. We wound up our social activities for the year with a skating party. The decorations were carried out in black and blue.

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A GLIMPSE INTCD Tl-IE PAST.. GREAT STRIDES IN IMPROVEMENT OF CAMPUS AND EQUIPMENT When the high school was first opened, in 1915, classes were held in the Richardson house. By 1917 the present main school building was completed and impressive-just equipped. lts setting was none too desert sand, sagebrush, and a couple of joshua trees. Gradually, as the school expanded its curriculum, new buildings and equipment were added-a shop building, bus shed, tennis courts, swimming pool, etc., and now a new gymnasium is in the process of construction. The grounds have been beautifully landscaped, with a lawn that is the pride of Victorville, and we need only glance at this snapshot of the school taken when it was first built to realize how far we have advanced since the sand-and-sagebrush days of 1917. VICTOR GRADUATES MAKE GOOD We are proud to realize that the number of high school graduates who go on to college is steadily in- creasing, Among those who have made good and returned to the old home town to teach are Muriel Moon inow Mrs. Ernie Kraftl, Marian Christenson lnow Mrs. Frank Burnsl, Harvey Irwin, and Wauna Galbraith, who is now Mrs. Irwin. Last year the number of grad- uates who entered college surpassed that of any previous year. Alva johanson, Wilbur Martinson, Dinsmoor Webb, Beth Rogers, Clara Herlick, Rozelma Weiss, and Catherine Dexter are all enrolled in institutions of higher learning, CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP FEDERATION The California Scholarship Federation was organized in this school on February 9, 1926. The next year four students, jayne Barrett, john Lathrop, Flora Wadsworth and Richard Nolan were seal bearers of the C. S. F. A seal bearer is a life member of the organization. To attain this important office one must have an average of 3 A's and a B. ln 1929, Charles Snell was the only seal bearer. From that year until 1933, when Agnew Williams was the sole representative, there were no seal bearers. Then, in 1935, there were three life members: Wilbur Martinson, Dinsmoor Webb and Alva johanson. ln 1936 the number reached the greatest height since 1927, with four seal bearers: Kemper Campbell, Rosalis Dunham, jean Campbell and Margery Stevens. 26 GIRLS' LEAGUE NOW IN NINTH YEAR Mrs, Bolton, then Dean of Girls, organized the Girls' League in 1927. Miss Shaw, the present advisor of the League, introduced the custom of having teas for the mothers of the girls in school. These Mothers' Teas are yearly events and are among the nicest social func- tions of the school. WILL GREEN FIRST PRINCIPAL Early in the fall of 1915 homesteaders on the Mojave Desert were amazed to see a genial looking man bump over the cow trails in his Model T Ford, obviously in quest of something. Not jackrabbits, as one might sur- mise, but students,-students for a new high school that had just been organized in Victorville. And the man was Will Green, tall, blonde, and determined, the principal of the new school. Mr. Green guided the school through its infancy, planned and accomplished the construction of our main building, and bought much of the equipment still in use. He was well liked by his students and prominent in the community. Mr. Green has done graduate work at the University of California, where he received his Master's degree, and is now working for a Doctor's degree from the same institution. He is at present principal of the Alexander Hamilton junior High School in Oakland. The above snap of Mr. and Mrs. Green, taken when they were in Victorville, was snitched from Mrs. Lester's photograph album.