Talk:San Diego High School

Citation

The fact that San Diego is the second oldest school needs a citation. It's wrong and I'd like to know where this came from. San Jose High was established in 1861, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory began in 1852 and Bellarmine College Preparatory was founded in 1851. That's three schools right there, not counting any other possible ones, which there likely are.

Improvement

Lets improve this entry, for school with so much history and tradition. We can do better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.164.105.55 (talk) 20:04, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Alumni Removed

Who removed Kamal Larsuel without any discussion? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thediva (talk • contribs) 22:28, 13 January 2007 (UTC). Again, I was removed without any discussion. Stop it.

I don’t understand why alumni’ keep getting removed. Peter Smith is an actor, Rochelle Scott is a entertainment reporter. Kamal Anthony is an author and film critic, Heidi Hart is a poet and author. If we are going to list judges, we can list these alumni. Thediva (talk) 12:52, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Sports

There's been created a new section: Sports. I personally do not believe that in its current form it's encyclopedic material for multiple reasons. Close to every highschool in the School District offers these sports. It is not worth mentioning. Instead of a list, some writing about the team's achievements (girl's basketball in the cif something or the track team) which are worth mentioning. If someone really wants to contribute, create an article such as High_School_sports. Conquerist 05:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Unless there are any objections, I will now delete this pointless list of sports. Conquerist 06:56, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Cavers

As an aside, why the name "Cavers"? Wschart (talk) 22:04, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Good question. In a brief search I couldn't find out. Anyone? --MelanieN (talk) 02:15, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

They used to be called "cavemen", but then it was changed to the gender-neutral "cavers". Conquerist (talk) 09:25, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Interesting! OK, I found a Reliable Source [1] for Cavemen in the 1960s, and - wait - here's another from the 1920s.[2] Conquerist wins the gold star! Which of course begs the question, why a caveman? --MelanieN (talk) 14:27, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I don't have a reliable source, but I'm a member of the alumni association and we were told it was because the first football players looked like cavemen in their uniforms before their first game. Again, I don't have a source for that, just a story. Matthewq49 (talk) 22:29, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Location in Balboa Park illegal?

User:Balboaparkfan just added information to the article saying that the school's location was found to be within Balboa Park, that a 1972 decision was made that the school's location there was illegal, and that the city signed a lease with the school district requiring the school to move by 2024. I have deleted that information, not because I doubt it, but because it was not sourced to any reference. I looked for confirmation at the San Diego History Center's records of Balboa Park History. I found no such entry on the page for 1972, [3] but I did find entries on the 1974 page saying "May 10, 1974: City Council approves agreement for rebuilding of San Diego High School" and "May 21, 1974: Council approves accord on San Diego High site" "May 24, 1974: "Squatters" get Superior Court okay for high school site; lease arrangements worked out by the Board of Education and City Council approved."[4] So this is partial confirmation but lacks details. Can we find more detailed confirmation, so we can restore this information to the article? --MelanieN (talk) 22:26, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

• It's probably not quite what we're looking for, but U-T columnist Roger Showley has mentioned the lease expiring in 2024: [5][6]. There's also some details in this article at a website evidently maintained by the same source that contributed the material to sandiegohistory.org: "Superior Court Judge James Focht, May 23, 1974, signed an order approving a 50-year lease for the land for $10,000, worked out by the Board of Education and the City Council. The School District would take over operation of the stadium during the lease." (This is footnoted to the following: "93. San Diego Union, May 21, 1974, X-6; San Diego Evening Tribune, May 24, 1974, A-14") --Arxiloxos (talk) 18:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Arxiloxos, that's exactly what we needed! I will work on wording and restore the information to the article. --MelanieN (talk) 18:15, 15 October 2014 (UTC)