Ruben's enrollment record,: Memorial Junior High to San Diego Senior High School. Even shows an IQ measurement: 100, a good, average to high average number depending on the interpretation chart. Either way, Ruben had good abilities to think and do. He was very capable of achieving whatever he chose to do.
Transcript of Ruben's Transcript
This is what I think it says: (I had this all nicely lined up, but it wouldn't stay that way on this page, no matter what I did. Sorry.)
1 Semester 1939-1940 2 Semester 1939-1940 (Ruben’s sophomore year)
Subject Grade Credit Subject Grade Credit
English 1 S 1 Electrical Science S 1
J Business Training S 1 English 2 S 1
Social Science S 1 J Business Training S 1
Latin 1 S 1 Social Science S 1
Gym S Latin 2 U 1 (I guess he didn’t like Latin)
Gym S
3 Semester 1939-1940 4 Semester 1939-1940 (Ruben’s junior year)
Subject Grade Credit Subject Grade Credit
Civil Mechanics C 1 Word Studies D 1
English 3 D 1 English 4 D 1
Electrical Science Cr* 1 Typing Cr* 1
Algebra 1 D 1 Algebra 2 C 1
Gym C Gym B
*The Cr probably means Credit. It seems likely it was a credit/no credit class without a grade.
It is interesting that Ruben took Gym each semester, but earned no credit. Looks like it was required, but not part of the diploma requirements at that time. Today, students in California need two years of Gym/PE for a diploma and earn graduation credit for it.
Ruben was not an academic scholar. It looks from this like his strongest classes were Gym, Civil Mechanics, Electrical Science, Typing--very physical/mechanical. For a guy who enjoyed working on his bike, that makes sense.
1 Semester 1939-1940 2 Semester 1939-1940 (Ruben’s sophomore year)
Subject Grade Credit Subject Grade Credit
English 1 S 1 Electrical Science S 1
J Business Training S 1 English 2 S 1
Social Science S 1 J Business Training S 1
Latin 1 S 1 Social Science S 1
Gym S Latin 2 U 1 (I guess he didn’t like Latin)
Gym S
3 Semester 1939-1940 4 Semester 1939-1940 (Ruben’s junior year)
Subject Grade Credit Subject Grade Credit
Civil Mechanics C 1 Word Studies D 1
English 3 D 1 English 4 D 1
Electrical Science Cr* 1 Typing Cr* 1
Algebra 1 D 1 Algebra 2 C 1
Gym C Gym B
*The Cr probably means Credit. It seems likely it was a credit/no credit class without a grade.
It is interesting that Ruben took Gym each semester, but earned no credit. Looks like it was required, but not part of the diploma requirements at that time. Today, students in California need two years of Gym/PE for a diploma and earn graduation credit for it.
Ruben was not an academic scholar. It looks from this like his strongest classes were Gym, Civil Mechanics, Electrical Science, Typing--very physical/mechanical. For a guy who enjoyed working on his bike, that makes sense.
Alice, Bob, Rose, and Patricia Talk about teenaged Ruben
Tiffany met with them in April 2012
San Diego High School, aka The Grey Castle. Unfortunately, this building had to be demolished and replaced for earthquake safety in the 1960s. Until the early 2000s, San Diego High was a three-year high school: frosh were at junior high; sophomores, juniors and seniors were at senior high. Since 2004, freshmen have been attending SDHS and the junior highs have become middle schools.
1940 Graduating Class
1940 San Diego High School
Graduation at the
Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park
Note the size of the organ pipes behind the graduates!
2012 SDHS graduation was held there, too
Graduation at the
Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park
Note the size of the organ pipes behind the graduates!
2012 SDHS graduation was held there, too
San Diego High honored its WWII lost former students. Two of them, Ruben Tellez and James Poulos, died and are buried in Normandy, France. James attended SDHS in spring 1938, before Ruben enrolled fall 1939. James stayed for less than one semester--February to May, 1938. Ruben attended for two years, 1939-1941.
San Diego High School Alumni News, Fall 2011 Pages 10-11
Before I was invited to participate in the 2012 Albert Small Student-Teacher Institute: Normandy--Sacrifice for Freedom, Don King, the SDHS Alumni VP and Historian, wrote this article for the SDHS Alumni Fall 2011 Newsletter. It could not have been more perfect for this project.
Thank you, Mr King.
Thank you, Mr King.
Balboa Stadium, built in 1914, was San Diego's biggest outdoor venue for decades. It is still on the campus of San Diego High, but has been refurbished several times since Ruben was a student at SDHS. Before Ruben attended SDHS, Balboa Stadium welcomed Woodrow Wilson--first presidential speech that used voice amplification, 1919; Charles Lindbergh was given a hero's welcome in 1927. Athletes Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Satchel Page played in Balboa Stadium. The stadium hosted racing (cars--midgets & jalopys) in 1937 to 1961 with a quarter-mile track, then the track was changed to a football field. San Diego Chargers played home games in the 1960s there, The 1960s brought John F Kennedy and the Beatles, although not at the same time. The buildings around it have changed. The stadium footprint is still the same today.
Midget Car Racing in Balboa Stadium
KICKING UP DIRT: Midgets round the north turn at San Diego’s Balboa Stadium.
(Radbruch Collection Courtesy Bob Lawrence Photo)
Located barely a mile from downtown San Diego, Balboa Stadium hosted auto racing from 1938 to 1961, with many future stars taking the checkered flag.
Opened in 1915, racing began at the facility — then known as City Stadium — with a midget card on March 7, 1938. In the inaugural 40-lap feature, Louis Foy came home first ahead of 1931 Indy 500 winner Lou Schneider.
The midgets continued to grow in popularity under UMA sanction until World War II halted racing. Following the war, huge crowds turned out as Balboa was the Wednesday stop on the URA Red Circuit (for non-Offy-powered cars).
Source: http://www.nationalspeedsportnews.com/racing-history/balboa-stadium-was-a-true-auto-racing-castle/
(Radbruch Collection Courtesy Bob Lawrence Photo)
Located barely a mile from downtown San Diego, Balboa Stadium hosted auto racing from 1938 to 1961, with many future stars taking the checkered flag.
Opened in 1915, racing began at the facility — then known as City Stadium — with a midget card on March 7, 1938. In the inaugural 40-lap feature, Louis Foy came home first ahead of 1931 Indy 500 winner Lou Schneider.
The midgets continued to grow in popularity under UMA sanction until World War II halted racing. Following the war, huge crowds turned out as Balboa was the Wednesday stop on the URA Red Circuit (for non-Offy-powered cars).
Source: http://www.nationalspeedsportnews.com/racing-history/balboa-stadium-was-a-true-auto-racing-castle/
Columns of Principles by the Principal
John Aseltine was the principal of San Diego High School while Ruben attended. He wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, "The Russ," on varying topics. In his book collecting the columns from 1937-1954, Things to Think On, they are in chapters by academic years. Below are some of the columns Principal Aseltine wrote while Ruben attended in 1939 to 1941. Some are followed by brief statements relating the columns to Ruben.
1939-1940 Sophomore year for Ruben at SDHS
OUR OWN ROAD MAPS, September 15, 1939
I like to look at road maps. Last summer when we returned from our trip, I unloaded two big armfuls from the car. Every time we stopped at a service station, we couldn’t resist the urge to ask for more maps of cities and states, national highways, state highways and detours.
We have our own road maps at San Diego High. They show you the roads to the places you may want to go, the best shortest roads, the interesting places along the way and how to avoid detours. Study these carefully: the Bulletin of Information which tells you how to graduate, and the Bulletin School Rules, information on school clubs and activities; these are here for your use.
The wise person studies his maps carefully, not only before he starts on a trip, but along the way to make sure he is on the right road. Keep a full set of school “maps” or instructions in your notebook and consult them often. If you don’t have them, ask your counselor. He will be glad to serve you.
Note: Maps were crucial to Ruben and his fellow parachute brigade during the D-Day invasion.
ARMISTICE DAY, 1918; November 10, 1939
We weren’t sure that what we were all hoping for so fervently had really happened. One of the long, gray British cruisers had come in the evening before and dropped anchor close to where we lay in the little South American harbor. In the exchange of courtesies, they told us the word had just been flashed that the fighting (WWI) was over.
But that afternoon, the eleventh of November 1918, we knew for sure, and we just had to celebrate. So, about fifty of us gained permission to visit our British cousins over the way. Our evening would have been just as hilarious if it was on Broadway or Piccadilly Circus or the Rue de la Paix. We cheered and sang. We toasted the King, the President and all the generals and admirals of the entire Allied armies and navies.
Then were was a show on deck. Charlie Chaplin and a months-old news reel—good old Charlie! The King, bless him! There’s old Beresford and LG—the blooming Life Guards, too! It all reminded us of home. Lands’ End, the Statue of Liberty, California—all very remote and very desirable. Peace at last! No more war, ever!
(John Aseltine was a Radioman in the US Navy aboard the USS West Zula and in Arica, Chile on Armistice Day in 1918. The British seamen recognized Prime Minister Lloyd George (L) and Admiral Beresford in the English Newsreel.)
Note: Ruben did not live to see VE day (Victory in Europe) of WWII. He died as a consequence of the D-Day invasion, cut down by a machine gunner on June 8--two days later, 1944.
HITLER INVADES MORE OF EUROPE, May 31, 1940
Since that fateful May 10 just three weeks ago today, we have all joined in he rising chorus of “Prepare,” and our government and industrial leaders immediately swing into action. Large sums of money are appropriated and factories begin to increase their output.
Is that all there is to this business of preparedness? Is it just a matter of mechanized troops, a big navy, and 50,000 airplanes a year? We all know that it isn’t.
If we are to continue to be free Americans; if we are to look forward to years of building on structure of democracy which Americans before us worked and toiled and sacrificed their lives to erect, then we much make “preparedness” a watchword for ourselves.
Each of us will be free only as he earns his freedom. Each must be strong as our fathers and mothers were strong—in self-reliance, in courage, in determination, in honesty, in fair dealing, and in efficiency.
Then we must learn to think and work and act together. Teamwork is America’s first and last line of defense.
(On May 10, 1040 German troops invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.)
Note: Four years later, Ruben would be training in England for the Normandy Beach D-Day invasion. Interestingly, Ruben was born in Jerome, AZ, a town named after a cousin of the PM’s mother, Jenny Jerome: her cousin was Eugene Jerome, a New York attorney who was one of the investing founders of the United Verde Copper Company in 1882. Jenny Jerome married Lord Randolph Churchill and was the mother of Winston Churchill who was Prime Minister while Ruben was in England and France, training and fighting.
Ruben’s father, Pedro, had been recruited to move to Jerome, AZ, from Mexico in 1922 to be the foreman of the United Verde Extension copper mine, UVX. UVX was the second major mine and mining company in Jerome and consisted of the Little Daisy group of claims.
1940-1941 Junior year for Ruben at SDHS
A NEW VISTA OF OPPORTUNITY, October 11, 1940
Although the spectacular turn which events have taken in the last few months has confused us, it has nevertheless opened a new vista of opportunity for youth. Only as recently as last winter, the prospect of a high school graduate’s getting a job was slim indeed. The only chance for most seemed to be in staying in school and preparing for an ultimate opening which might never come.
How different the future looks today! The services of young men and women are needed desperately in every branch of life, in production for both war and peacetime pursuits. We are in the midst of a gigantic expansion of industrial activity which will be limited only b our own resourcefulness and Yankee ingenuity, and youth are truly indispensable to the success of our common endeavor.
There is just one catch as far as you are concerned. There will be no place for half-baked training or half-hearted effort. If you are really skilled in any one of a thousand necessary jobs, your future is assured; but if you only half learn or perform your work poorly, then you had better just keep out of the way of the real workers. Start now to put your own personal preparedness program into effect. Find out what you can do best; then work hard to improve. There is no time to waste.
Note: After high school, Ruben and his brother Peter were in the CCC—Civilian Conservation Corp, part of FDR’s New Deal—for about a year and a half. They worked hard. They were away from their family. A short time after the CCC, both enlisted in the Army with Ruben going into the 101st Airborne which was an integral part of the Normandy Beach D-Day operation. Ruben had volunteered for the paratroop and was in the 101st’s 506th Parachute Infantry Brigade. His training would have been quite the opposite of half-baked or half-hearted; it was tough, sometimes brutal, he and the others in the 101st were in the best physical shape of their lives with complete dedication to the tasks at hand. Principal Aseltine would have been proud.
ROTC TRAINING, November 29, 1940
For a long time now military training has been an important part of the Hilltop curriculum. (SDHS is physically located on top of a hill in downtown San Diego and frequently referred to as being Hilltop. This is not to be confused with a later school located elsewhere, Hilltop High—not the same school.)
Recent events have made it even more so, and have placed new demands upon it. Fortunately, we were not caught unprepared. The quality of instruction and the character of the students enrolled has always been superior. Traditionally the boys of the ROTC have represented the best in school standards and morale. The timing of the building of our new quarters by the Board of Education was perfect.
Since every boy must now plan to do his share of military service, it will be wise for him to consider the things the ROTC is prepared to give him. Here are a few:
1 Basic military drill
2 Rudiments of military science
3 Military rules and regulations
4 Fundamentals of military discipline
I had the experience of going abruptly from civil into military service without any preliminary training and wouldn’t repeat that mistake. It’s too much like trying to swim with all your clothes on. The ROTC won’t make a finished soldier of you, but it will get you ready to learn without a lot of floundering around.
It’s a good idea to plan some ROTC training.
Note: While going into the Army without a high school diploma eliminated Ruben’s chances of going to Officer’s Training, he certainly got plenty of training with the CCC before enlisting and in the Army . Ruben’s transcript does not show being enrolled in any ROTC classes. We do not know how difficult or easy his transition was from civilian to military life. The CCC experience probably helped.
MEMORIAL DAY, May 29, 1941
Although my paternal grandfather died when I was a small boy, I remember some things about him very vividly. He had long white whiskers which he kept spotlessly clean and carefully combed. He had a wealth of exciting stories about his exploits as a cavalryman in General Grant’s army. And he had a strong and steadfast love for his country.
Two years ago, we visited his grave in the cemetery of an obscure little Michigan village. It was not long after Memorial Day and the plot was bordered with small American flags placed by the descendants of his comrades-in-arms and life-long friends.
My grandfather lived by a few simple rules and faiths. He stood on his own feet. He asked no man for any favor he was not willing to give in return. He believed that real happiness came from hard and honest work. He accepted his duties as an American citizen regardless of personal cost.
Memorial Day does not merely do honor to such as he—to those who made America great; it is a reminder to us that only by following those same simple rules can we hope to keep America great.
Note: Ruben’s family was and is proud to be American. Ruben was born an American in 1924 Jerome, AZ. His family moved to San Diego and he attended Memorial Junior High and San Diego High. He was first generation American, as were seven of the nine siblings.
His brother, Pedro, changed his name to Peter. Peter was born in Mexico; he and his older sister, Maria Alicia, now known as Alice, moved to the US as very young children when their father accepted the job in Jerome to be a copper mine foreman at UVX.
Neither Peter nor Ruben graduated high school. Their mother had died in 1940 and their father put an emphasis on making money, not education. Later siblings would graduate not only from high school, but college. Several graduated from San Diego High.
Ruben’s living siblings are very proud of both Ruben and Peter. Ruben died far too young. He was not quite 20 on June 8, 1944. He would have turned 20 years old on November 23 that year. Peter survived the war and lived a good, long life. He died in 2002 in Bullhead, AZ. The family would move between Arizona and California many times.
Source:
Aseltine, John Think On These Things: The Principal’s Weekly Columns, San Diego High School 1937-1954, 2011
Tellez Family interviews, conversations, and emails, February and March, 2012
John Aseltine was the principal of San Diego High School while Ruben attended. He wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, "The Russ," on varying topics. In his book collecting the columns from 1937-1954, Things to Think On, they are in chapters by academic years. Below are some of the columns Principal Aseltine wrote while Ruben attended in 1939 to 1941. Some are followed by brief statements relating the columns to Ruben.
1939-1940 Sophomore year for Ruben at SDHS
OUR OWN ROAD MAPS, September 15, 1939
I like to look at road maps. Last summer when we returned from our trip, I unloaded two big armfuls from the car. Every time we stopped at a service station, we couldn’t resist the urge to ask for more maps of cities and states, national highways, state highways and detours.
We have our own road maps at San Diego High. They show you the roads to the places you may want to go, the best shortest roads, the interesting places along the way and how to avoid detours. Study these carefully: the Bulletin of Information which tells you how to graduate, and the Bulletin School Rules, information on school clubs and activities; these are here for your use.
The wise person studies his maps carefully, not only before he starts on a trip, but along the way to make sure he is on the right road. Keep a full set of school “maps” or instructions in your notebook and consult them often. If you don’t have them, ask your counselor. He will be glad to serve you.
Note: Maps were crucial to Ruben and his fellow parachute brigade during the D-Day invasion.
ARMISTICE DAY, 1918; November 10, 1939
We weren’t sure that what we were all hoping for so fervently had really happened. One of the long, gray British cruisers had come in the evening before and dropped anchor close to where we lay in the little South American harbor. In the exchange of courtesies, they told us the word had just been flashed that the fighting (WWI) was over.
But that afternoon, the eleventh of November 1918, we knew for sure, and we just had to celebrate. So, about fifty of us gained permission to visit our British cousins over the way. Our evening would have been just as hilarious if it was on Broadway or Piccadilly Circus or the Rue de la Paix. We cheered and sang. We toasted the King, the President and all the generals and admirals of the entire Allied armies and navies.
Then were was a show on deck. Charlie Chaplin and a months-old news reel—good old Charlie! The King, bless him! There’s old Beresford and LG—the blooming Life Guards, too! It all reminded us of home. Lands’ End, the Statue of Liberty, California—all very remote and very desirable. Peace at last! No more war, ever!
(John Aseltine was a Radioman in the US Navy aboard the USS West Zula and in Arica, Chile on Armistice Day in 1918. The British seamen recognized Prime Minister Lloyd George (L) and Admiral Beresford in the English Newsreel.)
Note: Ruben did not live to see VE day (Victory in Europe) of WWII. He died as a consequence of the D-Day invasion, cut down by a machine gunner on June 8--two days later, 1944.
HITLER INVADES MORE OF EUROPE, May 31, 1940
Since that fateful May 10 just three weeks ago today, we have all joined in he rising chorus of “Prepare,” and our government and industrial leaders immediately swing into action. Large sums of money are appropriated and factories begin to increase their output.
Is that all there is to this business of preparedness? Is it just a matter of mechanized troops, a big navy, and 50,000 airplanes a year? We all know that it isn’t.
If we are to continue to be free Americans; if we are to look forward to years of building on structure of democracy which Americans before us worked and toiled and sacrificed their lives to erect, then we much make “preparedness” a watchword for ourselves.
Each of us will be free only as he earns his freedom. Each must be strong as our fathers and mothers were strong—in self-reliance, in courage, in determination, in honesty, in fair dealing, and in efficiency.
Then we must learn to think and work and act together. Teamwork is America’s first and last line of defense.
(On May 10, 1040 German troops invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.)
Note: Four years later, Ruben would be training in England for the Normandy Beach D-Day invasion. Interestingly, Ruben was born in Jerome, AZ, a town named after a cousin of the PM’s mother, Jenny Jerome: her cousin was Eugene Jerome, a New York attorney who was one of the investing founders of the United Verde Copper Company in 1882. Jenny Jerome married Lord Randolph Churchill and was the mother of Winston Churchill who was Prime Minister while Ruben was in England and France, training and fighting.
Ruben’s father, Pedro, had been recruited to move to Jerome, AZ, from Mexico in 1922 to be the foreman of the United Verde Extension copper mine, UVX. UVX was the second major mine and mining company in Jerome and consisted of the Little Daisy group of claims.
1940-1941 Junior year for Ruben at SDHS
A NEW VISTA OF OPPORTUNITY, October 11, 1940
Although the spectacular turn which events have taken in the last few months has confused us, it has nevertheless opened a new vista of opportunity for youth. Only as recently as last winter, the prospect of a high school graduate’s getting a job was slim indeed. The only chance for most seemed to be in staying in school and preparing for an ultimate opening which might never come.
How different the future looks today! The services of young men and women are needed desperately in every branch of life, in production for both war and peacetime pursuits. We are in the midst of a gigantic expansion of industrial activity which will be limited only b our own resourcefulness and Yankee ingenuity, and youth are truly indispensable to the success of our common endeavor.
There is just one catch as far as you are concerned. There will be no place for half-baked training or half-hearted effort. If you are really skilled in any one of a thousand necessary jobs, your future is assured; but if you only half learn or perform your work poorly, then you had better just keep out of the way of the real workers. Start now to put your own personal preparedness program into effect. Find out what you can do best; then work hard to improve. There is no time to waste.
Note: After high school, Ruben and his brother Peter were in the CCC—Civilian Conservation Corp, part of FDR’s New Deal—for about a year and a half. They worked hard. They were away from their family. A short time after the CCC, both enlisted in the Army with Ruben going into the 101st Airborne which was an integral part of the Normandy Beach D-Day operation. Ruben had volunteered for the paratroop and was in the 101st’s 506th Parachute Infantry Brigade. His training would have been quite the opposite of half-baked or half-hearted; it was tough, sometimes brutal, he and the others in the 101st were in the best physical shape of their lives with complete dedication to the tasks at hand. Principal Aseltine would have been proud.
ROTC TRAINING, November 29, 1940
For a long time now military training has been an important part of the Hilltop curriculum. (SDHS is physically located on top of a hill in downtown San Diego and frequently referred to as being Hilltop. This is not to be confused with a later school located elsewhere, Hilltop High—not the same school.)
Recent events have made it even more so, and have placed new demands upon it. Fortunately, we were not caught unprepared. The quality of instruction and the character of the students enrolled has always been superior. Traditionally the boys of the ROTC have represented the best in school standards and morale. The timing of the building of our new quarters by the Board of Education was perfect.
Since every boy must now plan to do his share of military service, it will be wise for him to consider the things the ROTC is prepared to give him. Here are a few:
1 Basic military drill
2 Rudiments of military science
3 Military rules and regulations
4 Fundamentals of military discipline
I had the experience of going abruptly from civil into military service without any preliminary training and wouldn’t repeat that mistake. It’s too much like trying to swim with all your clothes on. The ROTC won’t make a finished soldier of you, but it will get you ready to learn without a lot of floundering around.
It’s a good idea to plan some ROTC training.
Note: While going into the Army without a high school diploma eliminated Ruben’s chances of going to Officer’s Training, he certainly got plenty of training with the CCC before enlisting and in the Army . Ruben’s transcript does not show being enrolled in any ROTC classes. We do not know how difficult or easy his transition was from civilian to military life. The CCC experience probably helped.
MEMORIAL DAY, May 29, 1941
Although my paternal grandfather died when I was a small boy, I remember some things about him very vividly. He had long white whiskers which he kept spotlessly clean and carefully combed. He had a wealth of exciting stories about his exploits as a cavalryman in General Grant’s army. And he had a strong and steadfast love for his country.
Two years ago, we visited his grave in the cemetery of an obscure little Michigan village. It was not long after Memorial Day and the plot was bordered with small American flags placed by the descendants of his comrades-in-arms and life-long friends.
My grandfather lived by a few simple rules and faiths. He stood on his own feet. He asked no man for any favor he was not willing to give in return. He believed that real happiness came from hard and honest work. He accepted his duties as an American citizen regardless of personal cost.
Memorial Day does not merely do honor to such as he—to those who made America great; it is a reminder to us that only by following those same simple rules can we hope to keep America great.
Note: Ruben’s family was and is proud to be American. Ruben was born an American in 1924 Jerome, AZ. His family moved to San Diego and he attended Memorial Junior High and San Diego High. He was first generation American, as were seven of the nine siblings.
His brother, Pedro, changed his name to Peter. Peter was born in Mexico; he and his older sister, Maria Alicia, now known as Alice, moved to the US as very young children when their father accepted the job in Jerome to be a copper mine foreman at UVX.
Neither Peter nor Ruben graduated high school. Their mother had died in 1940 and their father put an emphasis on making money, not education. Later siblings would graduate not only from high school, but college. Several graduated from San Diego High.
Ruben’s living siblings are very proud of both Ruben and Peter. Ruben died far too young. He was not quite 20 on June 8, 1944. He would have turned 20 years old on November 23 that year. Peter survived the war and lived a good, long life. He died in 2002 in Bullhead, AZ. The family would move between Arizona and California many times.
Source:
Aseltine, John Think On These Things: The Principal’s Weekly Columns, San Diego High School 1937-1954, 2011
Tellez Family interviews, conversations, and emails, February and March, 2012