Evelyn "Brownie"
Rose
Born: December 12, 1921, in the home of her
Grandparents located at what is now Hackamore Lane.
Graduate of the Warm
Springs Elementary School, Washington High School, in the town of Centerville,
and Heald Business College of San Jose.
Evelyn married Leonard E. Rose.
They were married at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Mission San Jose on
December 22, 1945, after he returned from serving in the South Pacific with the
United States Marine Corps during world War II.
After graduating from
Business College, Evelyn applied for a secretarial position at Washington High
School. (At that time it was the only high school in the area.) My first year
of work at the high school was as the Registrar and Secretary to the
Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education. I had several great
bosses. My first Superintendent was Albert J. Rathbone, and upon his retirement
I then worked for J. Vernon Goold known to all the students as "Pop" Goold. He
was a great man and the kids loved him -- they more or less walked all over him
but was loved by both students and families, and following Pop Goold was
Superintendent William Koller. He was also a great man but after following
"Pop" Goold it was difficult for him to be a little tougher. The last
Superintendent I worked for was Dr. Wayne Ferguson, by then we had several high
schools built in the area - Irvington, High, Newark High, Logan High, Mission
San Jose High and the closeness of Superintendents and students was much more
difficult. He too was a great man but times were different and things changed
to where the students no longer knew who the Superintendent was because he did
not have a school of his own it was now District Superintendent.
I
retired in 1983 and I haven't left the kids (as I called them) - I am still
invited to all their class reunions and I have the best time at all of them.
I have been a very lucky person to still live in Fremont and never a day
goes by that I don't meet former students and it's just a thrill to be able to
know so many former students and still get to see them and how they make out in
their lives. (And they still call me Brownie)
I have never left the Warm
Springs Area. My parents played such important roles in this area. Today,
one lonely palm tree stands faithful watch over a gas station which was
built on the site where once stood the Warm Springs Grocery Store, Post Office
and Library.
My parents: (Mother) Rose Vargas Brown and Joseph S.
Brown. My father arrived in Warm Springs from the Azores to become Postmaster,
General Store Proprietor and Warm Springs School Trustee, a post he held from
1911 until his death in 1957. I am truly honored to be the Grand Marshal for
the Fremont 4th of July Parade 2009 in Warm Springs!
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