The 1930s

Timeline

1930:

• English and Social Science are built into the school program

1931:

• Thirty-one seniors graduate

1932:

• Uniforms for girls are retired.  There were too many complaints about uniforms and the rule too difficult to enforce.

1933:

• Homework is only allowed two days a week (State Law)
• Long Beach earthquake struck on March 10, at 5:55 P.M., with a magnitude of 6.4.  School buildings were among those structures most generally and severely damaged throughout the southern California area.  If the earthquake had occurred during school hours, the death toll would have been much higher.
• The Field Act is passed by the California Legislature on April 10, 1933, mandating that school buildings must be earthquake-resistant. The earthquake supported some ideas regarding the need for earthquake resistant design for structures in California.  More than 230 school buildings were either damaged, destroyed, suffered major damage, judged unsafe to occupy or totally destroyed.

1935:

• The top portion of the Bell Tower is removed because it was weakened in the earthquake of 1932. The bottom section will be removed twenty years later in the reconstruction of 1954-55.

1938:

• 3000 students are now enrolled

1939

• A three-year phase out of 7^th – 9^th grades.   Garfield will now only be a senior high school.