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Excelsior Union High School - Norwalk, California
Welcome to the Class of 1951!
It is our hope to give our computer classmates a chance to see what is in our Keep In Touch Newsletter.
Some of the stories and pictures that will be in the upcoming newsletter, will be posted a few days before the next mailing
date. So send in your B&W, color slides or color pictures.
<<< Click on the Plan Ahead page to the left, to bring you up to date
on our coming Class events.
ARTESIA ANOTHER TOWN WHERE MANY OF US WERE RAISED
*The village of Artesia formally became a community when the Artesia School District was established on May 3, 1875.
The first school was located at the corner of 183rd St. and Alburtis Ave. The school house was a rustic timbered two-story
building with a classroom on each floor. On the first day of school, 44 students enrolled.**Artesia got its name from the
many naturally flowing Artesian wells in the area. This rural countryside with its rich soil and abundant water supply was
ideal for farming. Artesians grew grapes, sugar beets, other vegetables and fruits. They raised poultry and were dairy farmers.
Nurseries grew ferns and flowers.**
*In the 1920*s and 1930*s, Dutch and Portuguese experts in the dairy industry developed Artesia into one of the most
important dairy districts in Southern California. After World War II, the land became valuable to developers who wanted to
build homes. To meet this pressure, the City of Dairy Valley was incorporated in 1956. Dairy Valley later became the city
of Cerritos. The demand for land became so great that the dairymen sold their dairies and moved their operations to the east
in Chino and to Central California.*********The City of Artesia was incorporated on May 29, 1959. The City motto is *Service
Builds Tomorrow*s Progress.* The chrysanthemum is the city flower.
The Artesia Water Tower, the familiar inactive water
storage tank located on Clarkdale Avenue just south of 183rd Street, has been a familiar sight for citizens of Artesia for
many years.*Although the site was the actual site of an artesian well in 1911, no records can be found of when the existing
tower was actually built. It also may have been the site of a smaller wood structure water tower
The 1st Wooden Water Tower
BEAUTY HONORS ROYALTY - Bevy of beautiful Bellflower & Artesia girls honor Pansco Hazel, famous Holstein who, as
"Queen Buttercup III", reigned over 1951 Bellflower Fair. Pansco Hazel by next Tuesday will have passed world's milk producing
record, it was learned today. Girls are Janet Myers (51) and Loretta Randall (43) (holding sign), and behind Pansco Hazel,
left to right are: Ardie Veyna (?),Nancy Thompson (52), Wilma Hoffman (52), Marie Johnson (51) and Ruth Geske (49)
Miss Artesia 1951
Wilma Hoffman .....**
(The first Miss Artesia)
After she was named "Miss Artesia", Wilma represented Artesia in the county-wide competition held during the Los Angeles
County Fair. Wilma was in the Class of 1952.
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