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Herbert Hoover: Schools
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At a young age, Hoover was self-reliant and ambitious. "My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere," he once said. As an office boy in his uncle's Oregon Land Company he excelled in bookkeeping and typing, while ... attending business school in the evening. Thanks to a local schoolteacher, Miss Jane Gray, the young Hoover was introduced to the novels of Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. David Copperfield, the story of another orphan cast into the world, was Hoover's lifelong favorite.
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[S]purred by his Quaker heritage, Hoover sought the reform of Indian policy. He made good appointments when he chose Charles J. Rhoads and J. Henry Scattergood, Philadelphia Quakers, to run the Indian Bureau (now the Bureau of Indian Affairs). Rhoads was appalled by the corruption and insensitivity he found in Washington, but his administration was a transitional one and at odds with itself in many respects. The debate about reform centered on the degree to which Indians should be encouraged to retain their distinct cultural, social, economic, and religious identity. Although the Hoover administration opposed government welfare that "coddled" Indians, expenditures by the bureau almost doubled under Rhoads. The money went chiefly for better schools and health care.
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As the 1931-32 academic year commenced, Hoover instituted the Hoover Community Center, located at the school, offering night classes; this tradition continues today with the High School Diploma Program. October 21 saw the first league pigskin victory of the year, a 50-0 romp over neighboring La Jolla High. Hoover's basketball team won its first City League Championship in February with a win over the Army and Navy Academy; they would go on to capture the Southern California title one month later.
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Yoga is coming to Hoover! Yoga classes will be held after school on Thursdays in the auxiliary gym. All interested students should pick up a registration form in Ms Remic's room (109) as soon as possible. All forms were due by Friday, Feb 1.
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