Grossmont High School Museum

Grossmont High School
A School Like No Other
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Now
th Anniversary Celebrat
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Looking Good at 95!
1920-2015
Homecoming,
Friday, October 16, 2015
3:30 PM
Welcome from Dan Barnes, GHS Principal
Welcome to Grossmont High School and our 95th Anniversary celebration. This program
commemorates our special event with an informative record of our school over the decades. Foothillers
should look back proudly on our history of excellence and on the traditions we maintain. Grossmont
continues to be a school with rigorous academics, successful athletics, and astounding school spirit and
pride as a twice-named California Distinguished School.
Grossmont offers the most offerings of Advanced Placement courses in the District and hosts
a nationally recognized NJROTC Distinguished Unit. As a California Distinguished Career Technical
Education School, we are able to support five career pathways. In 2013 we were one of only seven high
schools in the State to receive an award as a California Distinguished Visual and Performing Arts school.
For seven consecutive years, our ASB has received a California State leadership award for their hard
work and dedication.
We are the oldest school in the District, but are becoming one of the most modern facilities
being built in East County. In our modernization efforts, three of our largest buildings were completely
renovated and a brand new science building and new PE facility were constructed. A completed
Humanities Building gave us thirty-one brand new, modern classrooms, an expanded parking lot, and a
new transportation career pathway--auto shop. This past summer began with the start of another large
building project in the front of campus that will ultimately house (in Phase 1) the Student Support Center
and Art Department, and (in Phase 2) the Performing Arts facility with a theatre.
For nearly a century, our graduates have not only made an indelible mark not only on San Diego’s
East County, but also on the county, state, and nation. Grossmont High School’s staff, community, and
administration remain committed to providing the highest quality learning experience for our students, a
reputation for which Grossmont High School has been known since its beginnings in September of 1920.
Daniel R. Barnes
Principal
Table of Contents
1925
1935
1945
1955
1965
1975
1985
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1995
2005
2015
What’s New?
Historic Showcase
Hall of Honor
This and That
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Grossmont High School 1920–2015
1925 Photos
Members of the Class of 1925 as Freshmen, taken in front of
cloister corridor arches
Carl Quicksall “El Recuerdo”
Dedication“Our Friend
and Principal”
Associated Student Body
The “Fire Prince” in 1922 Auditorium
Girls’ Athletics
1925 Foothiller Facts
The Senior Class numbers 63.
GHS pays $350 to world-renowned garden designer Kate Session to
”make Grossmont one of the garden spots of Southern California.”
Students arrive at school on foot, by car, bus, train, and even by horse!
Boys’ sports are Baseball, Track, Basketball, Football.
The new Drama Department presents 2 plays: Three Live Ghosts and Seventeen.
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1935 Photos
First CSF: California Scholarship Federation,
honorary statewide society
Undefeated Football Team:
Metropolitan League Champions
Girl Reserves: its purpose to develop friendship
among the girls
Cast of A.S.B. play “The Ghost Train”
1935 Foothiller Facts
Grossmont’s undefeated Football Team earns a Metro
League Championship.
June 8: School approved “Senior Ditch Day” occurs as
seniors fail to report to school.
Girls’ Tennis Team: All Conference
Tennis Tournament Champions
Canceled because of lack of money, the yearbook, called
35-er, is published by the senior class, who fundraise to
pay for it.
Girls’ Auto Shop Class and Boys’ Cooking Class are offered.
Construction begins on the new Auditorium/Gymnasium
building funded by a bond issue and the WPA. Today, we
know it as the Old Gym.
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1945 Photos
Game Rally Pom Pon Girls
Cafeteria Staff
Band: “Swing and Sway...”
Math Class: “You Gotta Use Your Brain”
1945 Foothiller Facts
GHS begins its 25th year.
20 extra-curricular clubs including Latin, Girls Reserves, and Bowling are offered to students.
Graduates number 213.
Boy athletes win championships in tennis and track. There are no varsity sports for girls.
21 members of the Class of 1945 leave to fight in World War II.
GHS’s biggest rival in football is Sweetwater High, fondly known to the students as “Sweeties”.
The 1945 score: Grossmont 19, “Sweeties” 15.
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1955 Photos
4 Majorettes
1955 “Castle”, original 1922 granite school
Varsity “A” Basketball Team: Metropolitan League Champions
1955 Foothiller Facts
Among the 36 extracurricular clubs are Idlers (a car club),
the Dukes and the Moonsweepers (both service clubs).
Boys earn league championships in track and basketball.
Future rock star Frank Zappa wins a CA Division of Forestry
art poster contest in his only year at Grossmont, 9th grade.
Modern Dance, with G.H.S. “Gerties”
GHS’s Blue and Gold Band, Flag, and Pom Pon Corps journey
to UCLA to perform at the half time of a game between UCLA
and Washington. UCLA wins 19-17.
Students relax after a school day on 19 cent beef
hamburgers, 22 cent thick malts, or 79 cent 1/2 fried chicken
and French fries at the new local hang-out in
El Cajon: Jack in the Box.
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1965 Photos
Boy Cheerleaders
Activities
Madonna Scene, Christmas Pageant, a GHS
Tradition from 1930-1989
The Traditional Rotating G
1965 Foothiller Facts
Pageboy haircuts, fishnet nylons are popular with girls.
Skirts must touch the ground when girls are asked to kneel by
PE teachers at the entrance to girls’ locker room.
A staggering 616 seniors graduate at the Greek Bowl at
San Diego State.
The boys’ tennis team is halfway through their amazing
15 consecutive years of league championships in the sport
(1957-1971).
The ASB and the freshman class work to beautify the giant “G”
on the hillside below the “Castle.” They weed and paint rocks
blue to update the G, which was made of plants.
Convention 1965
Editorials and opinion pieces on the Vietnam War and student
rights start to appear in the Foothill Echoes.
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1975 Photos
Drama students
Varsity Wrestling Team: 7-1 League Record
Gus the Fighting Foothiller and Varsity Cheer Squad
“Aloha Days” Homecoming Court
1975 Foothiller Facts
After Title IX requires equal access to varsity athletics for women, the school goes from no varsity
girls’ sports to fielding girls’ teams in swimming, golf, gymnastics, dance, volleyball, and softball.
The Senior Prom is held at the Hotel Del Coronado.
Gus, GHS’s mascot, gets an updated look created by Coach Mike Asmussen.
Because of overcrowding, in September 1975, students go on an extended day schedule, featuring
shorter classes and more class periods.
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1985 Photos
Girls’ Varsity Soccer
Grossmont Surf Club
Jelly and the Marcells Air Band singing
“Blue Moon” in first annual SD County
Airband Competition
Graduation at the SDSU Greek Bowl
1985 Foothiller Facts
Grossmont’s clubs reflect the wide interests of the times: the
Idealists, Surf, Ski, Advanced Science, and H20 Clubs.
The growth of girls’ sports continues with the addition of
girls’ varsity soccer.
Boys’ golf wins the league.
Student hairstyles feature lots of mousse and lots of hair.
The Christmas Pageant rolls on, offering its 55th consecutive gift to
the local community.
20 cent Phone Calls
Before the advent of cell phones, students line up to use the
pay phones in the quad.
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1995 Photos
Boys’ Varsity Water Polo
Traditions Assembly Trophies on Stage
Girls’ Varsity Softball
1995 Foothiller Facts
Studying on Senior Lawn
In the yearbook El Recuerdo student poll, the top 5 types of
dance music were alternative, disco, rap, punk, and hard rock.
The new Child Development program begins. Its purpose is
to enable teen mothers and fathers to stay in school while
learning essential child-rearing skills.
1995 is a banner year for sports. Boys’ basketball, baseball,
volleyball, and water polo and girls’ softball, volleyball, and
tennis all win league titles.
Graduates number 397.
Grossmont’s renowned 74-year old speech program is
canceled this year due to lack of student interest.
Auto Shop
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The prosecution’s DNA expert in the O.J. Simpson trial is
George “Woody” Clarke, a 1969 graduate of Grossmont, who
played tennis in high school.
Grossmont High School 1920–2015
2005 Photos
Varsity Men’s Lacrosse
Link Crew
Varsity Hillers at Homecoming
2005 Foothiller Facts
Daisy Chain at GHS
“G-House and the Blue Crew Caravan,” phrases of spirit,
are used by the Pep Squad, to cheer on the many sport
teams on campus.
The Red Robe Choir and its director Ed Basilio travel to
Spain to perform and “soak up” culture.
Long awaited upgrades to building and facilities, some as
old as 70 years, begin with the passage of Proposition H.
Grossmont athletes have another great year, winning
league titles in boys’ golf, volleyball, tennis, soccer, swim,
lacrosse, football and girls’ water polo
and tennis.
Pep Squad
GHS celebrates 80 years of the Foothill Echoes, the
school newspaper.
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2015 Photos
Academic League
G-Crew introduce 9 th graders to Grossmont
Grossmont High School Royal Blue Regiment and Color Guard
Gus and Friend
2015 Foothiller Facts
In June, Volume 94 of the school yearbook,
El Recuerdo, is published.
525 12th graders graduate in the 94th class.
Girls’ Gymnastics
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During the summer, work on the new Student
Services and Art Buildings begins. They will
replace the old Administration offices and the
Special Education Building.
Grossmont teams win league championships in
boys’ basketball, water polo, lacrosse, tennis and
girls’ gymnastics.
Grossmont High School 1920–2015
What’s
New?
Due to the Grossmont High School community’s
generosity in passing Propositions H and U, Grossmont
is in the midst of a major renovation. These are the new
buildings added since the 90th Anniversary Celebration:
2012 Child Development
2013 Humanities Building
2016 Student Support Services and Arts Buildings
2014 Automotive
Technology Facility
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Historical Showcase
Without the generosity of our amazing alumni, retired and current staff, and community,
these historic reminders of our past would not exist.
BRONZE PLAQUES
• Thomas Adams, Class of 1993, Plaque
and Jack Mashin Stadium Plaque:
east end of Mashin Stadium on wall of
Science Building
• Marlin Baer 2014 Discus Field Plaque:
Discus Field
• Walter Barnett 1970 New Gym Plaque:
inside the New Gym
• Class of 1916 Fountain: west side of
Library Building
• Historic Ivy Plaque &1979 Spirit Flag
Pole: Lower Quad flagpole
• Stacey Kent and Julie Callery,
Class of 1993: new Tennis Courts
Drinking Fountain.
• Ken Lehr 2014 Automotive Technology
Facility: work bay outside wall
• 1922 Clock Plaque: inside the School
Office Attendance Office
• 1935-1937 WPA Plaque: southwest
corner of Old Gym
BENCHES
• Lower Quad: Class of 1949; Class of 1956; Class
of 1966; Classes of 1971 and 1972; Class of 2006
• Home Entrance to Stadium: Class of 1961;
Class of 1965
• Upper Quad: Class of 1991
• Humanities Building: Bill Ashman, Retired
GHS Principal
SIGNS
• Rear of School: The Grossmont High School
Monument, donated by Bill Woolman, Class
of 1962
• Front of School: Class of 1989 Sign, renovated
by Gene Chubb, Class of 1948, and the Gerald Fackler Trust
The Big G on the Hill , renovated by Gene
Chubb, Class of 1948, and Bill Woolman, Class
of 1962
• Old Gym: Class of 1964 donors of the Old Gym
Clock and 1937 Historic AuditoriumGymnasium Sign
• 1961 Friendship Tree AFS: west side
of School Office
• 1998 Rory Golden Eagle Scout
Landscaping Project: front of school
• 2008 GHS Museum: inside the Museum
• Carl Quicksall 1937 Old Gym Plaque:
inside the 1937 Old Gym
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Hall of Honor
Listed below are notable alumni or dedicated faculty/staff/community members, individuals who have
achieved in one of several areas: athletics, academics, arts, public service, or who were committed faculty/
staff/community members. These individuals have brought honor to Grossmont High School after their
graduation or through their years of dedicated involvement with Grossmont.
2015 Hall of Honor Inductees
Jean Landis, Class of 1936
Timothy Miller, Class of 1956
Bill Woolman, Class of 1962
Brian Sipe, Class of 1967
“Woody” George Clarke, Class of 1969
Julia Stewart, Class of 1973
Merle Donahue, 1929-1962 GHS Choral Director
Jim Nichols, 1959-1988 GHS Instrumental Music Director
Hall of Honor Past Recipients
1925 Lawrence Carr
1946
1926 Captain Howard M. Avery, USN
1948
1927 Paul T. Mannen
1949
1927 Brigadier General Osmond Ritland
1949
1928 Walter Barnett
1951
1928 Judge Fenton Garfield
1951
1929 Amorita Treganza
1954
1932 Ellamarie Packard Wooley
1958
1935 Richard O’Brien
1961
1937 George Bailey
1962
1938 Frances Ellen Coughlin
1965
1938 Douglas L. Inman, Phd.
1972
1940 Dr. Robert H. Kokernot
1975
1942 Clark Allen
1978
1942
Dan Lewis
Community and GHS
Staff Honorees
Colonel Ed Fletcher, GHS Benefactor
Coach Jack Mashin, GHS Coach and Teacher
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Reverend Franklin “Bud” Held
Bill Davis
Ben Cloud
Frederick Martin Donohue
Bill Anders
Gordon Austin
Don Shields
James Choi Spackman
Michael D. Madigan
Steve Starr
Connie Baer
Michele M. Marsh
Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut
Rick Sturckow, Astronaut
2010
Bill Davis,
George Bailey,
Ben Cloud,
Jim Spackman
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Thank You
95th Anniversary Financial Donors:
William Black, Class of 1950
Jim Hatcher, Retired GHS Teacher
Martin Kennedy, Retired GHS Teacher
Pat Mercer Potter, Class of 1948
Sharon Alban Reed, Class of 1955
John Steiger, Class of 1947
Jim Stieringer, Class of 1959
Bob Stockton, Class of 1955
Ken Wilson, Class of 1972
Bill Woolman, Class of 1962
2015 Hall of Honor Plaques are the gift of an anonymous donor.
Creation of the 95th Program:
GHS Museum Directors Connie Baer, Class of 1965, and Lynn Baer, Class of 1969, and Rhenna Colón
and Renée Abbott of La Mesa’s Copy-It.
Creation of the 2015 Hall of Honor Plaques:
GHS Museum Directors Connie Baer, Class of 1965, and Lynn Baer, Class of 1969, and Awards by
Navajo in Fletcher Hills
Hall of Honor Selection Committee:
Dan Barnes, GHS Principal; Don Ginn, Class of 1987 GHS Teacher Historian; Frank Foggiano,
Class of 1968, GHS Teacher; Connie and Lynn Baer.
95th Anniversary Committee:
Connie and Lynn Baer, Don Ginn, and Paul Miller, Class of 1966, and GHS Alumni Director
Learn More about Grossmont
Please take a moment to explore the websites of 3 organizations at Grossmont High whose sole
purpose is to improve and celebrate GHS:
Grossmont High School Museum: http://foothillermuseum.com
Grossmont High School Alumni: http://grossmontalumni.net
Grossmont High School Educational Foundation: http://foothillerfoundation.com
Consider becoming a donor to the GHS Educational Foundation Endowment Fund and commemorate your
Foothiller memories by becoming an Foothiller Friend or Foothiller Founder with a commemorative tile on the
Humanities Building or Old Gym. The Foundation’s motto is “Take Your Memories….Leave Your Footprint”.
Please join the 230 donors who already had left their footprints!
Photos and Foothiller Facts are taken from the El Recuerdo yearbooks, the Foothill Echoes newspapers, or
the GHS Museum Collection and are the property of the Grossmont High School Museum.