Sunset High School (Hayward, California)

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Sunset High School
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Sunset High School (Hayward, California)
22100 Princeton Street

Hayward
,
California
94541

United States
Coordinates 37°40′19″N122°5′55″W / 37.67194°N 122.09861°W / 37.67194; -122.09861
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Type Public high school
Established1959
Closed1990
School district Hayward Unified School District
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)Red and gold
Team nameFalcons
YearbookAquila

Sunset High School was a public high school in Hayward, California, United States. It opened in 1959 and was closed in 1990. The campus now contains the Hayward Adult School vocational school, and Thomas Brenkwitz Continuation high school, both part of the Hayward Unified School District.

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The Sunset High School campus is just west of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tracks, about one-half-mile north of the main Hayward BART station. There is a view of the playing fields and the back part of the campus from BART trains.

History

At its creation in 1959, Sunset High School was part of the Hayward Union High School District, and continued to be until 1963, when that district was dissolved and all of its high schools became part of smaller unified school districts. [1] [2] At that time, Sunset High School became part of the Hayward Unified School District.

On September 25, 1959, the newly chartered State College for Alameda County – now California State University, East Bay – welcomed its first 293 students to classes in temporary quarters at Sunset High School. [3] The high school was able to share space with the college because, during the 1959–1960 school year, the high school consisted of only the 9th and 10th grades. September 1961 was the first time Sunset had all four high school classes.

In the summer of 1966, runners from the track team got together and ran a continuous relay around the clock with the goal of beating Tennyson High School's World Record of a little over 4,000 miles completed in the summer of 1965. After 52 days, Sunset High School did set a World Record of 10,035 1/2 miles of non stop running. Each of the 24 runners ran one hour each.

In 1970, social studies students at Sunset High School researched and wrote the book A History of Hayward. [4]

The school closed in 1990.[ why? ]

Notable alumni and teachers

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References

  1. ↑ "History of School District Organization in California". California Department of Education. February 2009. Retrieved November 4, 2009.
  2. ↑ Marciel, Doris. "History". San Lorenzo, California: San Lorenzo High School . Retrieved May 24, 2011. the HUHS District ... became three unified districts in 1963
  3. ↑ Building Healthy Communities — A Lasting Legacy by Mohammad "Mo" Qayoumi (President of California State University, East Bay), from "Cal State East Bay Magazine", Fall 2009, page 3
  4. ↑ McDow, Mildred, A History of Hayward – Hayward, CA: Young Historians, 1970. 1st ed. 195 pages. Hardcover
  5. ↑ "A Crowd Pleaser, Harrelson Has a Bit of Fire" by Robert McG. Thomas Jr., The New York Times , May 30, 1990
  6. ↑ "The New Generation at Shortstop" by Charles Dexter, from Baseball Digest, September 1967, page 5
  7. ↑ "Maxine Hong Kingston: Chronology". eNotes . Archived from the original on July 15, 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2014. 1965–1967: Kingston teaches English and mathematics at Sunset High School in Hayward, California. She is active in the protest movement against the Vietnam War.
  8. ↑ "James R. Lambden – Associate Justice, First Appellate District". California Secretary of State . Archived from the original on November 13, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2013. Sunset High School, Hayward, California
  9. ↑ "James Lambden". Judgepedia . Archived from the original on September 5, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013. James R. Lambden is a judge on the First District, Second Division of the California Courts of Appeal.
  10. ↑ "Sunset High Hires Maggard". Oakland Tribune . April 23, 1964. p. 40. Retrieved July 17, 2013. Former University of California athlete Dave Maggard has been hired by Sunset High of Hayward to take over the position of head track and cross country coach.
  11. ↑ "Sprague suffers knee injury". Daily Review . Hayward, California. June 4, 1975. p. 39. Retrieved July 17, 2013. But Sprague, a Sunset High alum, ...
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