I love that they included a photo of the school – it’s nice to see how it has changed over the last 100+ years. I don’t remember that any of my high school yearbooks have photos of the school back from my day.
Not a very large faculty in those days.
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Left, top to bottom: Maude Schaeffer, E.B. Williams, J.W. Warner
2nd from left, top to bottom: Helen Louise Sprague, Jeanette Minard, Edna Rowell, Joseph Christensen Center, top to bottom: Hester Pardee Tefft, C.L. McLane, A.C. Olney 2nd from right, top to bottom: Julia Warren, J.A. Nowell, W.B. Gladfelter, P. Nilsson Right, top to bottom: Edna Ecker, F.M. Fulstone, A. Clarence Smith |
And then the list of the Class of 1908 students.
About 45 students. While it would be a record-breaking small class in today’s standards, it seems like that was a fair amount of students in 1908.
Rainey LaRue was quite active in school but I have to wonder what “Senior Farce” meant?
And here are the individual photos of the class. I’d love to hear from you if you are a descendant of one of these students.
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Lucy Walker, Arthur Douglas, Marguerite Vogel, Edwin Einstein |
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Belle B. Millward, Victor C. Gaines, Pearl Duncan, Lucie Davis |
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Mary E. Hanner, Ena Lenore De Yo, Jennie S. Macdonald, Henry L. Hopkins |
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Victoria Cutten, Lynette Morgan, Maude Cassell, L. Bransford McWhirter |
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Fred L. Prather, Olive H. McFarland, Elmer Chapman, Georgia Capps |
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Blance Cummings, Joseph A. Reiss, Mabel Alberts McKnight, Roy Crissman |
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Alta E. Wiseman, Robert F. Collins, Florence Sharer, Theodore A. Ruschhaupt |
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Mabel A. Welch, Lottie Elizabeth Downing, Floyd Wellesley Cowan, Harriet W. Tuft |
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Ora M. Traves, Bunnie L. Wyllie, Bertha Douglas, Lester G. Brownell |
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Merle Mitchell, Ruby B. Shipp, Edith Keyes, Alfred Carl Becker |
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Lottie Grounds, Thomas B. Wheaton, Jr., Daisy Wheeler, Ethel Irene Stutzman |
Lots more to share – be sure to come back!
This is one of my favorite covers. That owl on the branch just makes me happy.
ReplyDeleteThe La Rue family is pretty famous in Fresno. Attorneys and judges. The senior farce was the class play where they all played characters that were known to the audience, like local politicians, the faculty, etc.
ReplyDeleteLove those senior photos---it would be fun to compare them with what high school seniors look like today.
ReplyDeleteI think women basically could not work once married back then. It would have been an insult to their husbands who were expected to support them!
Also, most of the faculty either graduated from UC Berkeley or Stanford, arch rivals. There was a football game between the two colleges that was quite a competition (and I believe still is). Therefore, when Roosevelt High School, the cross-town school, came on the scene, it became Fresno High's arch rival and thus began the Little Big Game which is still played today and is the oldest school rivalry game perhaps in the United States by now. It was the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi when I was teaching at Fresno High. The schools play for "The Pig," which is another story all to its own.
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