Elmhurst School - Oakland

1911

Elmhurst School or Elmhurst Grammar School was the public school in the town of Elmhurst before it was annexed to Oakland in 1909.

(One postcard referred to it as the Jones Avenue School. 98th Avenue was known as Jones Avenue before the annexation.)

Teachers

Joseph D. (J.D.) Armstrong became principal in 1896; he had previously been principal of the San Lorenzo School. He taught the 7th and 8th grade classes. He retired as principal in 1906 and later served on the Hayward city council.

Name	Years	Notes
Miss Josephine Harris	1900-1903	1st and 2nd grade
Miss G.W. Hostetter	1900-1901	2nd and 3rd grade
Miss E.E. York	1900-1903	4th and 5th grade
Miss D. Belle Harlan	1900-1903	teacher of drawing
Miss May Harris	1901-1902
Miss Cora G. Harrington	1901-1902	resigned 1902
Miss Minnie A. McCullagh	1901-1902	resigned 1902
Miss May N. Elzy	1902-1903

Mrs. M. Cotter was the janitor in 1900.

Students

One photo by Hugo Weitz from OpenSFHistory is thought to be from 1906.

7th and 8th grade, 1906 ²

The other photo is labeled graduating glass 1906.

8th grade graduating class 1906 ³

Students listed as promoted in July 1905 are below. ⁴ Those with a * are written on the back of the first photo; those with a + are written on the back of the second photo (several are near matches and may be transcription or memory errors); those with a # are listed in the 1906 graduating class. Together they would have had J.D. Armstrong as their teacher in the 1905-1906 school year.

6th to 7th

7th to 8th

* Herbert Hansen
Earl Brown
* Nathan Higgins
James Kerwin
Edward Nicolaisen
* Arthur O'Roke
* Tommy Sawyer
* Myrtle Critchlow
* Beatrice Graham
Fannie Herrier
* Stella Iffert
Ann Sequeria
* Edna Shaw

*+# Anita Funk
*+# Pauline A. Sheehan
*+# Marion B. Staley
*+# Alex B. Arlett
*+# Lena Starr
Anita Schroeder
*+# Ethel A. Whiting
*+# Angelika E. Nicolaisen
*+# James "Jimmie" A. Goodnight
# Harry L. O'Roke
*+ John A. "Jack" Parker, Jr.
*+# Stanley E. Shaw
+# Kenneth C. Smith
Grover Ruckstell

Delzera Cereghino