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1905

Vacaville High School Girls Baskeball team. Nothern Calif. Champions. (Back L to R) Barbara Reid, Iva Rogers, Willa Marshall, Fidelia Haggerty, Maude Sharpe, Jane Burton. [...]

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1907

Vacaville High School baseball team. (Top), L to R, Charles Rogers, Carl Hendricks,ÿMoÿrÿÿ Buck, Wiley Killingsworth, (Mid) Sidney Hoyt John Rugg, Harvey Syster, Frank Jewett. (front) Russel Chandler, Lawrence Killingsworth

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1954

Martin McCoy, Dixon Grammer School, 1954

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Meet Cleo Gordon Elementary school's namesake / Dingler, Nancy [463] [RETROSPECT-2000-463]
Have you ever wondered how local places, like streets and schools get their names? For example, it is obvious that Fairfield High is named after the town, but did you know that Armijo High was named after the family that had the large Spanish land grant it sits on? Historically, people want to honor prominent, successful people by naming places for them.

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1896

The first Vacaville High School - Top row-Oritta Ferguson, Mason Derby, Frank Webster, Carl Crystal, Robt. Gates, James Koford, Carlton Parker, Roy Pinkham, Ruby Ferguson, Leila Gates, Jose McMurtry… (See index card for rest of names)

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Remembering the Good Old School Days / Rico, John [876] [RICO-1981-876]
School days, good old golden rule days. An estimated 9,000 Vacaville area elementary and high school students will go back to their classes next Tuesday. No one is able to predict whether registrations will be up or down. With home building here at a near stagnant position, there actually could be a decline in registrations for the fall semesters.

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Vacaville Fiesta Days 1965

1965

Official brochure for the 1965 Vacaville Fiesta Days. May 30th thru June 5th 1965. Julius Lehfeldt was General Chairman. The Heritage of Vacaville was highlighted throughout the brochure with rare, historic photographs of the following locations: Downtown Vacaville, Vacaville Union High School, Vacaville Grammar School, Methodist College, Depot Street train station, Buck Fruit Company, and an 1877 map of Vacaville is also included. [...]

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1909

Armijo High's School Girls Basketball team, 1909. L to R - Grace Finne (Nickerson), Mabem Morrill (McDermid)(McDairmid ?), Madge Swim (Jackson), Alice Mason (Long), Lena Borges (Garritson), Pearl Lambert (Wright) with basketball. Courtesy of Pearl Wright..

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Oral histories hearken back to simpler times / Delaplane, Kristin [354] [ECHOS-1997-354]
The early days for parks and recreation taken from an oral history with Lyston Johnson. 'My parents came here in 1917. My father worked in a grocery store down on Georgia Street. He delivered groceries seven days a week for $15 a week [...]

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Lessons learned in 1911 / Bowen, Jerry [739] [WAYITWAS-2007-739]
In my last column we took a brief look at some of the 1911 requirements to graduate from grammar school (the eighth grade). This week we will look at a brief summary of reading and literature and an example of part of an article written by a graduate of high school in 1912.