These photographic images were donated to the museum by Mary and Owen L. Miller of Grass Valley, California. Owen's mother was Elva Wilsie, who attended high school in the Imperial Valley and kept this photo collection from that time. Owen and Mary had little information on these photographs - the museum had a little, and we have speculated and questioned others about the images. If you have any additional information to add to this interpretation, please contact me, Eldon R. Caldwell, at my email address: eldonc@imperial.cc.ca.us. Enjoy!

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THE FACULTY

This image shows the early instructors at the school in front of the Main Entrance. I especially like the gentleman with the wide-brimmed hat, suspenders, and handlebar mustache in the last row. He may have been an Agricultural Science instructor with the school. The gentleman sitting down on the rail resembles the principal in the previous photo. One former student noted that an "Evalina Moore" was a gym teacher at the school in 1915. Another who attended in 1941 told me she thought the lady in the lower right corner of the bottom row resembled a younger "Dorothy Wilson" who taught biology at the school for many years.

Bill Thornburg, who attended the school in 1938, confirmed that it was in fact a young Dorothy Wilson, an instructor who had spent her whole life teaching at the school and had never married.

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