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Ravenswood High School
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Gwen Smith Interview
Interview of Gwen Smith by Jesse Norfleet about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: migration to Belle Haven, what makes Ravenswood High School special,...
document
Ravenswood High School 1976 Yearbook
Complete 1976 yearbook from Ravenswood High School. Includes all pages, some with personal notes to Caroline Wyatt.
document
Ravenswood High School 1966 Yearbook
Complete 1966 yearbook from Ravenswood High School. Includes all pages, some with personal notes to student John Wyatt
newspaper
Guatamalan Attends Ravenswood - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about Guatemalan exchange student Carmen Soberanis attending Ravenswood High School. Includes an...
newspaper
Latino Input Prompts Unity - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about La Raza de Ahora student organization raising awareness on Mexican history and culture, the...
newspaper
Photograph of Ravenswood Student in the Reading Lab - Habari Gani
Photograph in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper showing teacher Nelson Dake working with student Estella Guierrez in the reading lab.
newspaper
Ravenswood Graduates Plan Campus Ceremony - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about 174 senior students graduating at an upcoming commencement ceremony. Student speakers at the...
document
Flyer for a Dance Organized by Ravenswood High School's La Raza de Ahora, 1974
Flyer for a dance benefitting school scholarships, organized by Ravenswood High School's La Raza de Ahora student organization. The dance took place at the...
photograph
Ravenswood High School Class of 1972 Commencement Ceremony
Photograph from the commencement ceremony for the Ravenswood High School class of 1972. Depicts student Estela Guererro receiving her diploma.
newspaper
Medical School Grant Protested - The Stanford Daily
Article about 100 EPA residents protesting at the Stanford Medical School about the 1967 Upward Bound program grant. The protestors presented nine...
newspaper
Training Harder at Ravenswood - Palo Alto Times
This letter to the editor in the Palo Alto Times talks about how the quality of education at Ravenswood High School is not as good as the surrounding high...
document
Ravenswood High School 1975 Yearbook
Complete 1975 yearbook from Ravenswood High School. Includes all pages, some with personal notes to student Estella Gutierrez (now Estela Guerrero) in...
document
Ravenswood High School 1974 Yearbook
Complete 1974 yearbook from Ravenswood High School. Includes all pages, some with personal notes to student Estella Gutierrez (now Estela Guerrero) in...
document
Ravenswood High School 1973 Yearbook
Complete 1973 yearbook from Ravenswood High School. Includes all pages, some with personal notes to student Estella Gutierrez (now Estela Guerrero) in...
document
Ravenswood High School 1972 Yearbook
Complete 1972 yearbook from Ravenswood High School. Includes all pages, some with personal notes to student Estella Gutierrez (now Estela Guerrero) in...
document
Flyer for a Dance Organized by Ravenswood High School's La Raza de Ahora, 1975
Flyer for a dance benefitting school scholarships, organized by Ravenswood High School's La Raza de Ahora student organization. The dance took place at...
photograph
Ravenswood High School Class of 1972
Photograph of the Ravenswood High School Class of 1972
document
Ravenswood: An Impressionistic Tribute to Ravenswood
Published book about Ravenswood high school. Edited by Greg Gavin, Rosan Gomperts, and Carole Hall. Published by Pressed for Time Press in Woodside, CA....
newspaper
Monday Q&A: How Blacks Should Funnel Their Efforts - Times Tribune
Q&A with Stanford professor and EPA advocate Henry Organ about the possible closing of Ravenswood High School and shift focus away from athletics for young...
newspaper
Sequoia Will Finance Black Student Exodus - Palo Alto Times
Article about the Sequoia Union High School District agreeing to pay for minority students who "contend they are educationally shortchanged in the Sequoia...
document
Benign Intentions: The Magnet School at Ravenswood High
Paper on the magnet school at Ravenswood High School, presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco,...
document
Legal Brief on behalf of the Certified Members of the Black Educators of Sequoia Union High School District
Legal Brief on behalf of the Certified Members of the Black Educators of Sequoia Union High School District. Includes the factual background information on...
document
Ravenswood High School and De Facto Segregation in the Sequoia Union High School District - May 1955 to April 1966
Written history of de facto segregation and associated anti-segregation political efforts from 1955 to 1966 at Ravenswood High School and the Sequoia Union...
newspaper
The Peninsula Gazette - Vol. 2, No. 33
Issue of The Peninsula Gazette with articles about the annual open house of the Ravenswood Parents' Cooperative Nursery School, a meeting of the Welfare...
photograph
Nate Branch on the Ravenswood Trojans
Photograph of Nate Branch in a Ravenswood High School Trojan basketball uniform. Branch played for Ravenswood before attending the University of Nebraska and...
newspaper
Trojan Sports Page - Habari Gani
Sports page from the February 21, 1975 issue of the Ravenswood High School student newspaper. Covers the soccer team winning the South Peninsula Athletic...
newspaper
Pioneers Edge Trojans - Palo Alto TImes
Article about the Ravenswood High School Soccer Team losing to Cupertino High School in the Central Coast Section soccer playoffs. Gives an overview of the...
newspaper
Ravenswood Soccer Champ - Palo Alto Times
Article about the South Peninsula Athletic League (SPAL) championship game between Ravenswood and Woodside High Schools. Gives an overview of the game play,...
newspaper
Booters Make Playoffs - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about the Ravenswood High School Soccer Team making playoffs despite recent losses to two top teams...
newspaper
Soccer Playoffs Tonight - unknown publication
Article from an unknown publication about the South Peninsula Athletic League soccer playoffs between Woodside and Ravenswood High Schools. Mentions...
newspaper
Booter Undefeated at 5-0-1 - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about the Ravenswood High School soccer team's ongoing undefeated season. Includes a photo of Juvenal...
newspaper
Sequoia District Athlete of the Week - Redwood City Tribune
Article about Rafael Miranda of the Ravenswood High School soccer team being named the Sequoia District Athlete of the Week. Mentions Miranda's achievements...
newspaper
Booters "Best Ever" at 4-0-1 - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about the soccer team winning record. Reviews past games and the players who scored.
newspaper
Ravenswood High School Photography Class Assignment
Photograph from the top of the Marin tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, captured by Ravenswood High School students in Bob Carter's photography class....
photograph
Ravenswood High School Mural
Photograph of Ravenswood High School mural painted by Francisco Espinosa and other Ravenswood High School students. Photograph captured by Ken Yimm for the...
newspaper
High-School Dropout Statistics Spur East Palo Alto Officials to Action - Times Tribune
Article about EPA's low high school graduation rates and the work by Youthswork Inc., a non-profit focused on youth education and job training programs,...
newspaper
Job Fair at Ravenswood Hi - The Peninsula Bulletin Weekly
Article about an upcoming job fair held at Ravenswood High School with anticipated participation by 40 businesses from the entire Mid-Peninsula area. The job...
photograph
The Mighty Majestics
Photograph of The Mighty Majestics, a Ravenswood High School band from the 1970s. The Mighty Majestics included students Gary Stamper, Thomas Dailey, James...
photograph
Entrance for the Ravenswood High School Auditorium
Photograph of the entrance for the Ravenswood High School Auditorium. Some photographs feature signage advertising a BBQ for the Ravenswood Pool and free...
photograph
Photograph of Murals at Ravenswood High School
Photograph of murals painted at Ravenswood High School by Francisco Espinosa and other Ravenswood High School students.
document
Agreement to Convey Real Property (Ravenswood High School Site) to the City of East Palo Alto
Full agreement to convey the Ravenswood High School Site from the Sequoia Union High School District to the City of East Palo Alto facilitated by the County...
document
East P.A. Starbucks retail renaissance brewing - San Jose Mercury News
Article about a Starbucks opening in Ravenswood 101 Shopping Center, Most of the employees are EPA residents.Makes the point that East Palo Alto is becoming...
document
East Palo Alto finally gets a bank - San Mateo County Times
Article about the California Bank & Trust branch opening up in East Palo Alto. Includes reasons why, after 15 years without, East Palo Alto is ready for a bank.
document
Letter from Herbert Fielden to Stanley Hall about K Mart coming to East Palo Alto
Letter from real estate consultant Herbert Fielden to EPA City Manager Stanley Hall about K Mart possibly purchasing the Ravenswood High School site for...
document
Packet on the Ravenswood High School Site for the Trust for Public Land
Letter and supplemental documents from EPA City manager Fred Howell for Thomas Mills, Senior Project Manager for the Trust for Public Land. Exhibits include...
newspaper
Sequoia Trustees Take Steps to Dispose of High School Site - Peninsula Times Tribune
Article about the Sequoia Union High School District declaring San Carlos High School a property surplus so that they can later dispose of the school site....
document
Documents Relating to the Ravenswood High School Site Task Force Meeting, January 6, 1982
Memo from Cecil Reeves, Chairman of the Ravenswood High School Site Task Force, to Barbara Mouton with minutes from the first Task Force meeting and the...
document
Administrative Officer's Report on the Composition of a Task Force to Acquire the Ravenswood High School Site
Memos from Victor James and Russell Averhart about creating a task force to acquire the Ravenswood High School site for redevelopment. Includes background...
document
Letter and Resolution about the Ravenswood City School District Board of Trustees acquiring Ravenswood High School
Letter from Mel Harris, the chairman of the Ravenswood City School School District Board of Trustees, to Henry Anthony, chairman of the Ravenswood Recreation...
document
Letter from John Cherry to Representative McCloskey about his support of the Acquisition of the Ravenswood High School site for Park and Recreation Purposes
Letter from John Cherry to Representative Paul McCloskey, Jr. about his support of the acquisition of the Ravenswood High School site for park and recreation...
document
Letter to the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service about the Acquisition of the Ravenswood High School Site
Letter from Russell Cahill to John Cherry, regional director of the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service about making an exception of the...
document
Application for Federal Assistance to Acquire the Ravenswood High School Open Space
Application by the Ravenswood Recreation and Park District for Federal Assistance to acquire the Ravenswood High School open space. States that the District...
document
Ravenswood High School Site Area and Estimated Values
Assessment of the area and estimated values for the Ravenswood High School development site, prepared by financial and government relations advisor E. Robert...
photograph
Photograph of Mayor Sharifa Wilson outside The Good Guys Construction Site
Photograph of Mayor Sharifa Wilson outside The Good Guys construction site at Ravenswood Shopping Center in East Palo Alto.
document
Gateway 101 Project Developer Selection
Administrative report from the EPA Redevelopment Agency Interim Executive Director, Lynda Hamilton-Rahi, to the EPA Redevelopment Agency members about...
document
Memorandum of Agreement for the Gateway Area - East Palo Alto Redevelopment Agency and Mozart Development Company
Memorandum of Agreement for the development of the Gateway Area of East Palo Alto. Proposed agreement is between the EPA Redevelopment Agency and Mozart...
document
Ravenswood High School Development Evaluation and Marketing Study
Ravenswood High School Development Evaluation and Marketing Study prepared for the Sequoia Union High School District by the Coldwell Banker Research and...
oral-history
David L. Cheney Interview
Interview of David (Dave) Cheney by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: migration from Mississippi to Belle...
oral-history
Delores Farrell Interview
Interview of Delores Farrell by Jesse Norfleet about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: transferring from Menlo-Altherton High School; differences...
newspaper
Former Ravenswood Administrator Chaney Named to High-Ranking Post in Louisiana - Peninsula Times Tribune
Article about former Ravenswood High School Vice-Principal Wallace M. Chaney Jr. being chosen to be assistant secretary for human development for the state...
newspaper
East of Bayshore Section from The Peninsula Bulletin Vol 6, No 41
Articles from the East of Bayshore Section covering Ravenswood High School students attending the National Red Cross Aquatic School, the Lions Club donating...
document
Selections from The Peninsula Bulletin Vol 6, No 41
Articles from the East of Bayshore Section covering Ravenswood High School students attending the National Red Cross Aquatic School, the Lions Club donating...
newspaper
Selections from The Peninsula Bulletin Vol 8, No 25
Articles related to EPA from The Peninsula Bulletin. Selections include an article on EPA graduates from Canada College in Redwood City, a profile of Lt....
oral-history
Joyce M. Myles Interview
Interview of Joyce Myles by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: the 60th anniversary of the Ravenswood High...
document
Letter from Mayor Mouton from December 1985 CityConnection
Letter insert from Mayor Barbara Mouton with an appeal to donate to the Ravenswood High School Site Acquisition Fund, updates on the newest members of the...
document
'First source' hiring policy an apparent success - Palo Alto Weekly
Article about the success of hiring locals in the Ravenswood 101 Retail Center. The article goes on to talk about the other development projects in East Palo...
newspaper
Tinsley Kids to be Studied - Palo Alto Weekly
Article about the Palo Alto School District conducting an in-depth study looking at the 422 EPA students who participated in the Tinsley voluntary transfer...
oral-history
Deidra Wright Interview
Interview of Deidra Wright by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: born in SF; followed her sister who moved to...
newspaper
East Side Story - Palo Alto Weekly
Front page article about EPA and Stanford actors performing two one-act plays - "Circle in the Dirt" and "Dancing on the Brink" - at the Cesar Chavez Academy...
oral-history
Willie McGee Interview
Interview of Willie McGee by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada about Ravenswood High School. He migrated to EPA from Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1958....
oral-history
Faye Bassette Interview
Interview of Faye Bassette by Dianne Otterby. Topics discussed include Ravenswood High School, Little League, Faye's journey to EPA, incorporation, and the...
newspaper
Nate Branch: Trotters Over Knicks - Palo Alto Times
Article about Ravenswood High School basketball star Nate Branch's career with the Harlem Globetrotters and the San Francisco Warriors. During the off-season...
newspaper
Francisco Espinosa Wants to Take Life Mellow - Habari Gani
Article about Ravenswood High School Student Francisco Espinosa's life and plans after graduating. Mentions his time living in Mexico, transfer to Ravenswood...
oral-history
Thomas Dailey Interview
Interview of Thomas Dailey by Meda Okelo. Topics discussed include Dailey's journey to EPA, attending Green Oaks and Ravenswood High School, white flight and...
document
Financial institution opens in East Palo Alto - San Jose Mercury News
Article about a California Bank and Trust Bank branch opening in East Palo Alto after 15 years without a full service bank. Includes reactions from some...
newspaper
IKEA in EPA - The Debate Continues - The Eastside Panther
Opinion section of the Eastside College Prep student newspaper where freshmen debate the pros and cons of a new IKEA store coming to the Ravenswood 101...
newspaper
East Palo Alto Section of Palo Alto Times
East Palo Alto section of Palo Alto Times with two short articles: one on a dispute about housing possibly being built on the Ravenswood High site and...
oral-history
Janet Thomas Interview
Interview of Janet Thomas by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: her migration as a child from Texas in 1946...
newspaper
Cinco de Mayo: Students share Mexican culture - Habari Gani
Article in the Ravenswood High School student newspaper about recent festivities to celebrate Cinco de Mayo organized by the La Raza de Ahora student...
document
Resolution of the Ravenswood Recreation and Park District Board of Directors and EPA Municipal Council Approving the Application for Land and Water Conservation Funds for Acquisition of Ravenswood High School Open Space
Resolution of the Ravenswood Recreation and Park District Board of Directors and EPA Municipal Council approving the application for Land and Water...
oral-history
Shirley Mitchell Neal Interview
Interview of Shirley Mitchell Neal by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Her family moved from Los Angeles to Alberni Street...
oral-history
Larry Wade & Donald Smothers Interview
Interview of Larry Wade & Donald Smothers by Jesse Norfleet about Ravenswood High School. Topics include:Wade's immigation fro SF to EPA in 1948 and...
newspaper
East of Bayshore Section from The Peninsula Bulletin Vol 6, No 39
The East of Bayshore section from The Peninsula Bulletin. Includes articles about Ravenswood High School requesting an ROTC program, free child health...
newspaper
East Palo Alto OKs Price for School Site - Peninsula Times Tribune
Article about city approval to pay the Sequoia Union High School District for the Ravenswood High School site.
oral-history
Gene Tate Interview
Interview of Gene Tate by Jesse Norfleet about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: being part of the first freshman class, what makes Ravenswood High...
document
Gateway 101 Project Relocation Plan
Full relocation plan for the Gateway 101 Project in EPA. Prepared by relocation consultant Linda Norwood for the EPA Redevelopment Agency. Includes an...
document
Agenda for the EPA Planning Agency Meeting
Meeting agenda for the EPA Planning Agency to adopt the guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and consider a...
photograph
Photograph from the Grand Opening of Taco Bell in East Palo Alto
Photograph from the grand opening ceremony of the Taco Bell in East Palo Alto. Attendees include Sharifa Wilson, Duane Bay, RB Jones, Pat Foster, and Myrtle...
oral-history
Cora Holmes Interview
Interview of Cora Holmes by Meda Okelo. Topics include: moving from San Francisco to Grace Court in EPA in 1971 with her husband and children, difference...
oral-history
Ricki Stevenson Interview
Interview of Ricki Stevenson by Meda Okelo. Topics include: migration to East Palo Alto; Native American and African American; her parents; her schooling and...
newspaper
The EPA Progress, Vol. 1 No. 3
An issue of The EPA Progress that covers rent control, the fate of Ravenswood High School, cCAIN Lawsuit being overturned, the City Council Candidates, local...
oral-history
Nate Branch Interview
Interview of Nate Branch by Sharifa Wilson. Topics discussed include Branch's journey to EPA; attending Kavanaugh School, Green Oaks Academy and Ravenswood...
oral-history
Martha Hanks Interview
Interview of Martha Hanks by Meda Okelo. Topics include how she arrived in East Palo Alto; her education at Kavanaugh, Green Oaks and Ravenswood High School;...
document
Ravenswood High School and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Sequoia Union High School District - A Dissertation
Full text of Robert Lowe's PhD dissertation on the desegregation of Sequoia Union High School District and Ravenswood High School submitted to Stanford...
document
Letter from Barbara Mouton to EPA Community - April 1985
Letter to the Community written by Barbara Mouton at the end of the first term of the City Council, probably for the CityConnection newsletter, listing major...
photograph
Photograph of the University Square Groundbreaking Ceremony
Photograph of the University Square housing development groundbreaking ceremony. Photograph features Rose Jacobs Gibson, Sharifa Wilson, Pat Foster, Myrtle...
document
City on the Move Newsletter - Vol. 1, Is. 3
Third issue of the "City on the Move" Newsletter from the Community Relations Division of the City Manager's office. Includes articles on redevelopment at...
oral-history
Delores Erving Bradford Farrell Interview
Interview of Delores Erving Bradford Farrell by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: migration from Malvern...
oral-history
Gloria Cormier Interview
Interview of Gloria Cormier by Sharifa Wilson in Las Vegas, Nevada, about Ravenswood High School. Topics include: migration from Los Angeles to Carlton...
newspaper
Habari Gani Frontpage Featuring La Raza de Ahora Mural
Front page of Habari Gani, the Ravenswood High School newspaper, featuring a photo of La Raza de Ahora painting a mural commemorating Mexican History as a...
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