Thanks to the advice of the former coordinator of the Inyo County GenWeb site, there is no longer a SCLINKS.TXT file that one must rename as an .HTM file in order to link to other sites of interest. Rather, all of the links formerly in SCLINKS.TXT are now on this page.
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     There is no longer a Download section. If you are a genealogist who's interested in a Gedcom file of those on the 1957 SCHS Faculty & Staff web site, see the associated World Connect site.

     Note: if you save this web page to a folder on your hard drive, the links to the major pages will take you to those pages on this site provided you are on-line. (This is a alternaive for accessing this site's Home Page via your "Favorites" or "Bookmarks" lists.)

• Schools, Libraries, Churches, Etc. in Santa Cruz County -- 1850-1950. A brief two page synopsis of instututions and their buildings written by Susan Lehmann in October 2000.
• Santa Cruz Library Local History Photo Collection. Scroll down in this Menu or Outline of available photos to Education, Secondary for a collection of 8 photos including the original Santa Cruz High School Building, the ashes after a 1913 fire, and the current main building, which was completed in 1915.
• Biography of Dr. William E. Fehliman. The first Fehliman to arrive in Santa Cruz was an older brother of C.E. "Doc" Fehliman -- and he was a real doctor. Before he moved to Santa Cruz in 1919 he practiced in Lead, South Dakota. This text file on Dr. W.E. Fehliman comes from George Kingsbury's 1915 History of the Dakota Territory.     
• Amateur Radio Station K6BJ's Scrapbook. Frank Kazmarek, longtime SCHS science teacher, was also a ham. No, he didn't overact in class but rather was an amateur radio operator -- and an early member of the Santa Cruz club that produced such members as Vernon Berlin, co-founder of KSCO.     
• Fifty Years After. The 22 December 2005 Santa Cruz Sentinel contains an excellent article by Sentinel Staff writer Shanna McCord titled "1955 disaster changed Santa Cruz's physical, economic landscape." While some of the photos have been used previously, there are some new photos by Bob Wright, one which is of the badly-damaged El Rio Trailer Park on North Pacific. Additionally, Ms. McCord interviewed someone whose story had not appeared previously: Mrs. Ruth Fingal, whose last husband owned a jewelry store in the Palomar Hotel. While this article in the Sentinel Archives lacks the photos used in the newspaper, it is still worth reading.
  [New on 29 Jan 2006]

Other Photo Collections

• Santa Cruz Photo Gallery Main Page. Select Schools and SCHS to see Kyer Wiltshire's 2001 color photo of the main building at SCHS.
• Kyer Wiltshire Photography. Not just buildings -- but also portraits as well as nature, performing art, and travel photos.

UCSC/UCB Resources

• Bancroft Library's On-Line Archives Santa Cruz County Photos. From the massive (2,271 images) collection gathered by Robert B. Honeyman Jr.'s of early California and western pictorial material. Note particularly the first illustration, which appeared in a German newspaper; it has all three wharves: the one from the end of Bay Street, the one, which still stands, from Cowell's Beach, and the "Little Wharf."
  
• UC Santa Cruz--University Library, Regional History Project. A large site with oral histories of Santa Cruz and enviorns. Brief outlines of the transcripts of conversations with such old-timers as Malio Stagnaro, Fred Wagner, and Thomas Majors, among others, are available. The "Gallery of Historical Photos of Santa Cruz County and the Central Coast of California" is apparently no longer on the site, perhaps because two librarians have published a book including many of the photos in the UCSC collections.

SCHS-Related

• William H. Weeks - Architect Extraordinaire. A look at the architectural work of the designer of SCHS's main building, the Palomar Hotel, the Casino at the Boardwalk as well as a myriad of other structures during the 1890s and the first third of the 20th century. Virtually every city in Central California has (or had) one or more buildings designed by W.H. Weeks, who lived in Watsonville at the beginning of his career, and whose ashes are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery there.
  New on 31 Jul 05
• Map of the SCHS Campus. Done in 2000 or 2001 before the current rebuilding project began. Includes photos as well as maps. While the student who wrote the text clearly skipped his English classes, you should be able to understand what he meant.
• Len Klempnauer's SCHS Class of 1954 Page. Reviews the twice-monthly lunches or dinners at Chaminade and the Hindquarter respectively. Also includes a list of those who have attended in the past as well as a link to the Save the Cross Roads site and the next site. (The Fiftieth Reunion of the Class of '54 was held on the weekend of 10-12 September 2004.
• Len Klempnauer's Larger SCHS Class of 1954 Web Site. Replete with photos not only of Class of '54 getogethers, but also contains photos of Branciforte Junior High's 50th anniversary celebration. And don't miss his nostalgic look at Santa Cruz in his "Back When" page.
• Save the Cross Roads Drive-In. While the Cross Roads Drive-In at the junction of Pacific, Washington, and West Cliff Drive was not as centrally located as the Five Spot, it nonetheless was a stopping point for those who did more than "cruz the drag."
• Trident Printing Presses Stop. Metro News article by Kelley Luker on the disappearance of The Trident for the 2002-2003 school year.

Genealogy Web Sites
 
     "The Big Three"

• Social Security Death Index. Month and year of death as well as some additional information on those who received SS benefits before their deaths. Generally covers 1949 to a couple of months ago.
  Now current through December 2005.
  [Updated 26 Jan 06]
• World Connect Search Engine. Search the many Gedcom files submitted by genealogy researchers. Often provides ancestors not found in the the SSDI and California Death Records. [Provided ancestors back 300 years for two of the SCHS teachers.]
• LDS Family Search. While the seach engine on this Mormon site has some idiosyncracies that one will gradually learn, often this site contains genealogical data not found in the SSDI or in World Connect's many Gedcoms.

     Other Genealogy Sites

• 1957 SCHS Faculty & Staff World Connect Site. This link takes you to the Index Page. Enter a last name, comma, and a first name; then press Enter. Scroll down to see the link for that person's page along with all others after him/her in the alphabetical listing. (Some may find this site easier to navigate than the associated site.)
  [Updated 2 Aug 05]
• California Death Index. Contains exact death dates and county of death from 1940 to 1997 for decedents; often includes mother's maiden name and state of birth.
• Obituary Daily Times. Daily index of published obituaries distributed via e-mail; search engine available for researching database.
• Rootweb Surname List. 1,000,000+ surnames on file that can be searched. You may also, at no cost, post surnames from your own family.
• County Locator. Need to know the county were Uncle Sylvester died? Try this site. Or perhaps you want to know how many states have a city or town named Paris. [Hint: more than 10 or 20.]

Miscellaneous

• Santa Cruz Sentinel On-Line. Though the Sentinel archives only go back to 14 August 1999, you'll find not only obits here but, if you've moved from Santa Cruz, you'll be able to keep up with the latest from your old home town.