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Article: SAN FERNANDO HIGH'S 3 GENERATIONS : SCHOOL MARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY.(NEWS)

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May 5, 1996
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Byline: Terri Hardy Daily News Staff Writer

Ruth Zamora attended San Fernando High School in the 1930s, a quiet time when home economics was a girls-only class and rogue students had their wrists slapped with rulers.

At that time, fear didn't come from gangs and the streets, but from distant countries at war. And the San Fernando Valley was a place filled with promise for immigrant families like hers putting down roots around tracts of farms and groves.

Zamora, 72, dropped out in 1941 to help support her family. But the Valley's oldest high school - a rock in what was once a tight community of farmers and the workers who tended them - never left ...

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