She became principal just a year after starting work and continued as teacher/principal for her entire tenure.
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McNear: Mendocino and Fort Bragg vied for the first high school on the coast
Mendocino High opened for classes in May, 1894 and graduated its first class in 1896.
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McNear: San Francisco’s ‘06 quake played a role in the construction of the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse
3 keepers kept the Fresnel lens rotating to warn ships off rocks.
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McNear: Mendocino and Miasa, Japan became “sister-unincorporated townships” in 1980
The relationship started through the Mendocino Art Center and continues with annual cultural exchanges.
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McNear: Katie Ford would walk on the headlands during the Mendocino Coast’s big storms
Children stayed home from school but spent the day on the bluff, watching the ocean’s fury.