Grossmont High School Museum and Alumni

Joe Musgrove Mural dedication April 14, 2021 KPBS article link: https://www.kpbs.org//padres-pitcher-joe-musgrove-mural-g/

From Foothiller to Friar, this was Joe Musgrove’s destiny. : Ground Floor Murals Thank you to Grossmont High School Principal Dan Barnes and Superintendent Theresa Kemper.

El Cajon’s own.

Update on Royal Blue Benches Honoring Teachers February 11, 2021 Thank You! 11 New Benches Fully funded 6 by alumni and ordered... Merle Donahue Bench Don Hubler Bench Bob Boucher Bench Gloria Jones Bench Jim Nichols Bench Ed Hollingsworth Bench 4 funded by individuals or classes George C. Gross Bench Class of 1958 J. Tom Warburton Bench, Class of 1958 Harold Lutz Bench, anonymous individual Ray Reed Bench, THE KFLT And The Bibb Family Bench We are accepting donations for these teacher benches: Curt Fauth, GHS Teacher, Counselor, Vice Principal Bench 1961-1964 Marion Bench, Foothill Echoes Advisor 1972-1976 To donate for a bench (each bench costs $1650) Visit our website at: foothillermuseum.com and use the gold Donate button. Then email us at [email protected] with the purpose of your donation. Or write a check payable to: GHS Educational Foundation And mail to: Connie and Lynn Baer 5990 Avenorra Dr. La Mesa, CA 91942 In the check memo, write the purpose of your donation. foothillermuseum.com

Dear Friends, The 2021 El Recuerdo yearbook will be filled with Foothiller photographs and memories, organized by decades, with glimpses of the amazing 10 decades of Foothiller history. The GHS Museum has shared some of our treasured photos with them. However, now we need your voice and your personal photos. ... Here is the link to a newly designed survey. Lynn and I easily completed it. If you have a personal photo of a high school memory, you can click and drag it into the photo space at the end of the survey. Grossmont High Alum Survey The 2021 El Recuerdo will be available for you to pre-purchase. Details to follow. Thank you for again becoming part of Foothiller history. https://form.jotform.com/210324762698158

February 2021 Foothiller Footsteps Connie and Lynn Baer Throughout the 1940s Foothill Echoes, the student newspaper articles reveal the shifting emotions of Foothillers as they faced never seen before challenges....Continue reading

Dear Friends, 6 Teacher Benches are Fully Funded. We are ordering them this week. We thank all of you who have donated!... We have several other benches honoring academic teachers that are currently being funded by individual alumni and graduating classes. What a loving testament to the impact Foothiller teachers have had on their students for the past 100 years! Thank you! Connie and Lynn foothillermuseum.com

December 2020 Foothiller Footsteps Connie and Lynn Baer A treasure trove of memories await in the Grossmont High School yearbooks. Since 1921, each El Re...cuerdo captures in photographs, drawings, and words the experiences of students during the past 100 years. If we listen, we can hear these student voices from the 1920s. A charming feature of these early yearbooks is the Senior Class History. In 1921, the first entry recalls the three years leading up to their senior year. 17 of them as freshmen attended Riverview HS in the old upper floor of a store building in Lakeside and for one long year dreamed of the time when they could enter their longed-for new building at Riverview Union High School. A much larger (freshman) class entered the old El Cajon Union High which had, since it was built in 1908, sheltered all of the valley’s illustrious students, but which was now fast being filled to overflowing. In September 1921, we entered G.U.H.S as the first Senior Class of the newly consolidated school. Also, in 1921, the Senior Class History ends the time for our Baccalaureate Services, Class Night and Commencement is fast approaching, and our joy is tinged with sorrow for our happy High School days will soon be overbut never will they be forgotten. Here are three cheers for our dear old G.U.H.S. The 1922 yearbook begins with an Editorial entitled Looking Forward, written by Alice Porter, Editor-in Chief, Class of 1923. Since the consolidation of the old El Cajon Valley and Riverview Union High Schools two years ago, the students have worked faithfully to make the name of Grossmont stand for all that is good and fair.Now we are looking forward to our school activities amid the splendid buildings, the fine equipment and beautiful surrounding of the new and modern Grossmont; all of which will be constant reminders to us of the kindness and generosity of the people of the valley. Within the yearbooks in these early years is a section entitled Literary, including poems, reflections, humor, and fictional pieces. In the 1923 El Recuerdo, Thelma Jolliffe ’23, writes of the Types of Students I Have Met, beginning with these words, students to the right of me, students to the left of me, (with an acknowledgement to Lord Tennyson.) There is the dreaming student, one we all know, a preoccupied look in his eye, seeing (evidently) far away and above his fellow toilers for knowledge.Follow the athletic scholar. Usually well-built and looking fit, he takes a mild interest in study; sometimes just enough to be eligible for teams. Next in line is the comical student, the one who, by some gift of Nature, can be funny without being ridiculous, amusing and clever without becoming tiresome.To pick another, there is the studious youth.the sort who will read ahead in his books and memorize poetry for the love of the thing..Last scene of all.is the average studentlaughing at life’s troubles, smiling his way into the hearts of his fellow classmates.dreaming, studying, playing, working, and finding time for all. The 1924 yearbook is dedicated to Ethel Prosser in appreciation for her tireless and invaluable efforts as Faculty Advisor for this and all previous volumes of the El Recuerdo. The high standard established under Miss Prosser’s tutelage has continued until today. The Calendar Memories of a Senior reflects on their school year, beginning Back again and glad to be here! The March 20 entry begins, Such a collection of freaks was never seen before outside the circus for we are celebrating Tacky Day.Helen Haskin got a prize for the best costume. Said costume consisted of the fragments of a gunny sack and a black eye. Tacky Day continued as a tradition for several decades. The Foreword of the 1925 yearbook states, The editors and faculty advisors have endeavored to make this a faithful account, a true Recuerdo of this year, and to incorporate into it some of the spirit of Grossmont. In years yet to come it is hoped these pages will recall happy memories of your Grossmont days. Within this year, as in the others, are the calendar (Diary of the Hall Clock), the Class History, and The Class Will. In the Will, each student leaves something to GHS. Austin Hinck gives his supply of adverbs to the English Department. Carmen Meza leaves her walk (home) to Lakeside after basketball practice to Alma Pratt. As shown in the 1921-1925 yearbooks, while the details of their daily lives may differ from ours, Foothillers then share much with today’s students: pride in their school, a sense of fun and camaraderie, and a desire to learn. Become Part of Our Historic Campus In honor of our historic 100 Years of Excellence Celebration, the GHS Educational Foundation is sponsoring a scholarship fundraising program. $100 for 100 Years donors will have their names, their families', or their businesses’ names engraved on 2x4 inch gray tiles, which will be displayed on a wall near the front of the school. In June 2020, the Foundation awarded $6500 in senior scholarships; our goal is to dramatically increase that amount in the future. Visit the GHS Educational Foundation website at foothillerfoundation.com, and on the Tile Projects pages; you may order your tile using the gold donate button. Or write a check payable to GHS Educational Foundation and mail to GHS Educational Foundation, P.O. Box 1043, La Mesa, CA 91944. On the check memo, please indicate "scholarship fund" and include the text of your tile with your check (up to 3 lines, 20 spaces each). To learn more about GHS, past and present, visit the GHS Museum website at foothillermuseum.com. Due to the coronavirus and our continuing move into our larger museum space, the GHS Museum is currently closed, but we are checking our emails at [email protected] and our phone messages at 619-668-6140.

The 2021 El Recuerdo Needs You! Calling All Alumni and Retirees from Sean Jones, 2021 Yearbook Advisor This year’s El Recuerdo will focus on 100 years of Foothi...ller history, decade by decade. The yearbook staff will be interviewing us and visiting the museum to gather information. What we need is your voice. Please take the time to complete the attached survey. While the heading states "Alumni", scroll down to see the choice of retired administrator, teacher, or staff. See we are Alumni..... https://docs.google.com//1z6dOgpFTsHIm04pJz7PFfq/viewform Thank you! Connie and Lynn

Dear Friends, We continue to experience problems with our website. However, we welcome your donations to fund benches to honor these 6 wonderful teachers. You... may mail a check payable to GHS Educational Foundation and mail to Connie and Lynn Baer, 5990 Avenorra Dr., La Mesa, CA 91942 or wait until our website returns, hopefully, next week, and use a credit card. Also, we decided to remove "In Memory of" from the benches since, as one alumnus said," It makes it look like a cemetery." True Each bench is $1650. All 5 of the Performing Arts teachers will be in the theater plaza area around the trees. Gloria Jones' bench will be outside the ASB room. Ed Hollingsworth: $1145 raised ( $505 remaining) Jim Nichols: balance is $1300 ($350 remaining) Don Hubler, Bob Boucher, Gloria Jones, and Merle Donahue are not funded yet. ($1650 each) We appreciate your support as we honor these 6 remarkable teachers. Connie, Lynn, Paul, and Jerry

Fundraising for 3 Blue Benches Outside of the new Performing Arts Center foothillermuseum.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jean Landis 102 9/28/1918. Class of 1936

Grossmont High’s Lakeside years shaped future September 25, 2020 in Education, Featured, Foothiller Footsteps 0 Grossmont High’s Lakeside years shaped future Class of 1921 from postcard (Photos courtesy GHS Museum)...Continue reading

https://old-friends.co/school.php?s=15897 List of students by class year.

When school began at Grossmont High School in September of 1922, there were 12 classrooms, 365 students, 17 teachers and one part time Musical Instructor. #GUHSDCentennial

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Asked for 80 GOT 250 Thank you donors!

Friday at the New Grossmont High School Museum Moving the 1920's