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Beware of BETTER IDEAS fa; Dwell High School.
In 1924 there was a need for ajotnet high school to serve the Richmond
District w) re norres were rcpUcinj the sand dunes north of
Golden Gate Park. If the Superintendent's "better idea" for Lowell
h»d been successful, many sodents reading diese words would not
be Lowellites today. His plan was to wove Lowell from iu Hayes &
Masonic location to the Richmond and change it to a comprehensive
Knool. The battle wu joined by alumni and students to save their
school t
HEADLINE in a special edition of THE LOWELL- March. 1924:
MASS MEETING TOMORROW
Board of Education Calls Meetings of All Intfrrstrrt Paries Tomorrow
Evening at George Peabody School.
The auditorir.n was crowded to capacity, people standing three and
four deep about its sides and into the hallways and the courtyard
beyond, ignoring the biting cold in order to keep the Lowell banners
flying. Attorney Milton Maria, 1910, read a manuscript to some
thirty pages prepared try the Save the Lowell Committee....
'HEADLINEin rHELOWEU.-September It, 1924:
SCHOOL BOARD QUITS PLAN FOR RICHMOND SITE
...Lowell rocs a sincere vote of gratitude to the Board
of Education for their efforts, and careful consideration
of ocr question....
Thirty-seven years later another Superintendent had a "bener
idea" about Lowell High School. The occasion was Lowell's fourth
move in iu history, this time to iu Eucalyptus Drive she.
In 1954 the Board of Education agreed to give the none. Lowell.
to the city's new high school located in the southwestern part of the
chy. It was durinj the negotiations for the move that the Suprrintcnden;
revealed bis "better idea" for our school. The new Lowell
would be a comprehensive high school serving a district to be carved
from the Abraham Lincoln and Balboa attendance ami. Immediately,
a new generation of Lowcllitc* rote to meet the aruck on their
•choo) that had just celebrated one hundred years of service lo the
young people of San Francisco.
Lowell had a new home, but the kind of school that occupied the
building would be resolved only after a bitter struggle that wu
reported in Time magazine. In the fall of 1961 the student bejy and
staff prepared to move to the new site on Eucalyptus Drive. But the
Board kept postponing iu decision about the kirid of school Lowell
would be. At the November. 1961 Board meeting, the Superintendent
presented a compromise plan:
Approximately half to three-fifths of the student body
would be districted from an atlccdobcc area between
Balboa and Uncoln High Schools. Approximately 40%
of the students would come from the entire city.
Opposition was unexpected because the Lowe!! leadership had
been persuaded to accept the "64MO F?an" as the best compromise
they could get. Yet, not only did the plan cause discussion, it sparked
a debate that became so volatile that (he Board postponed iu final
decision until the December meeting. Ironically, the major reason
- for tbe postponement was the intransigence of the anti-academic
forces in their all-or-nothing demand for a districted, comprehensive
• ' Awell High School. Their unwillingness to compromise proved to
be a fatal tactical error. The battle lines were drawn for the
Eleventh-hour entrants into the fight proved to be the decisive factor
In the final Board decision. In November, aa All-City Academl-:
Higfc jChco) commitee wu formed and pro-acedemic defenders by
the thousands rallied to it in a month of frenzied preparations for the
December 3th showdown at Nourse Auditorium.
The San Francisco Connie's carried the story of that momentous
meeting:
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At an cmotiotKl meeting dominated by Lowell
adherents, the isoard of Education voted overwhelmingly
6 to J. late last night to preserve the lOS-year
tradition o! Lowell High School as an academic, all-city
school.. .Woodworking and metal shops already in
place in the new building are to be convened to
acv^cmic r^^uii
For Ihe second time in thirty-five yean soweooe's "better idea"
for Lowell turned out to be not such a good Idea. Tix Dedication of
tbo 1963 RED AND WHITE readi as follows:
Thh Yearbook il dedicated to the LowcU Alumni
Asiodadon to that is contribution in obtaining our new.
baDdlng my never be forgotten..Jt wu ilso strong in
its opposition to my pttn that would nuke Lowell a
comprehensive type school with in inanumre area
either putiilly or wholly districted. TV result of this
oppathioa was the Board'i decision to keep Lowell u it
• his alwtys been — 100* academic and available to
stajuas in all districts of San Fnnclico...Our sincere
. appreciation led us to dedicate this 1963 RED AND
WHITE to the Lowell Alumni Association.
Dairies aid search for
missing children
By MichMl Uc
Tre project began last autumn M
a icztzh for two nvwitg boys in Dcs
Muincs.
This year, dairiet wcrms the nation
have ilso adopted the idea of
publicizing rr.luing children on milk
ca.iom.
Several loci) dairies, including
Berkeley FMTO, Carnattcn, and
Fofcmoit. »je the matt recent participants
in this campaign to find aV
ducted and runaway children.
So far there have teen two success
stories; both ar the result of cfforu
by » Southern California dairy,
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During the last week of January.
13-year-old Doria Paige Yarbrough.
who lad been misting since ea»ly
November of last year, voluntarily
returned home after seving a television
report with a photo of hznelf on
an Alta-Dcna milk caiton.
Likewise, on February 13, the
grandmother of sU-ycar-old Justin
Mtirphy returned him to his mother
after the grandmother had seen a picture
of Justin on an Atu*Dcna milk
carton.
To have a miuing child's photo
considered for the milk cartons, a
parent must "register" the musing
child with the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children, a
non-profit clearinghouse bascU in
Washington, D.C.. which trio to
reunite young people with their family
members on a national buis.
According to Karen Potter, vicepresident
of matkeling for Forcmou.
the dairy company h*i no screening
powrr to choose which pictures will
go on the cartonv
The parent mutf initially report the
mating child to the clcantifhuute *nj
mull submit a b*ojraphy, description,
and a recent photo of the child. Ihen
the center will verify the information.
The Center ultimately decider
which pictures to send to the
manufacturer* of milk canon* for
VIIC dairy companies *ill prnt four
different pictures per nonth.
Foreman, which operate* in 12
states around the Wctt and Southwest,
projects idling 3.1 million carloos
with such phon* on them; Carnation
will sell 25,000 half-pints a
day; Berkeley Farnu witl distribute
a little less than one million canons
Into people's homes.
Potter emphasized, "Tits campaign
is truly a natioru. program. Tne
photos are not necessarily of children
missing from the local areas where
the milk b snld The children may be
miuing from any part of the country."
According to the National Cemer
for Missing and Exploited nuUren.
most abducted or runaway children
cross state lines and are rarely found
within a vicinity of the place they
w?re last seen.
Ths National Center for Misting
and ExrScitcd Children was cstablhhed
in June 19M. just four mouths
after Kevin CoUins was reported
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MKdKU Dar!ei of Berkeley Rtrnti present] Anne CoClns wUi n milk
carton baring a picture of her VJn.
Koin, pibftlnt from San Frmn-
Cisco since Ttbnmry ID, 1984.
Eleven-year-old Kevin Collins 1.5 milltod childrert were mif sing in
vanished from a Kaigbt Aihbury 1984. One million were runaways
street corner in San Francisco on aad 300.000 were abducted by
February 10. 1984. Kevin's disap- strangers or a family member.
pearance received extensive national The dairy companies realize the
media exposure, mil his picture even !•-.• of children b a serious problem
made the cover of AVKTMTT*. Harry Theodosis, Northern
David Collins. Kevin's father, Californb distribution manager for
agrees thai parerfs have been sear- Carnation, ratsoro. "We got w*jn!of
ching for muting children for * looj ihc n+oe*2 Alta-Dena Dairy Lad;
time but that hU tort'* cue did trinj- therefore, we decided to get involvthe
awareness of mining children to ed in order to provide a vital service
the p>iblic, simply 'JCCJUK of its over- to joctrty."
whelmi.it: prct* Ln>erage.
The milk orton idea is jyss oce nf
The National Center for Missing tin* fc*v innovations which arc serv-
ind £spl.^ireii ChilJrcn reports thai ing tu help find miuing children.
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