Merced-Stanislaus-San Joaquin County CA Archives Biographies.....Greenly, Maurice Gaylord 1890 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

MAURICE GAYLORD GREENLY

   So much of the future development and advancement of California as a State,
and each county as a unit in its progress, is dependent upon the growing
generation, that enough cannot be said in favor of the men and women who are
devoting their lives to educating these embryo citizens and helping to make them
into men and women who will be an asset to any community. Especially in the line
of vocational education, fitting them for their future work in life; or in
preparing them for college courses, so that they, in their turn, may become
educators. And Merced County has been unusually fortunate in its selection of
faculties for the different schools in the district.

   As principal of the Hilmar Union High School, Maurice Gaylord Greenly is
filling an important place in county education. A native of South Dakota, he was
born in Estelline, that State, on December 23, 1890, the son of Hiram B. and
Latie A. (Gaylord) Greenly, both born in the State of New York; and they became
homesteaders in Dakota Territory, the mother locating there in 1881. The parents
moved to Brookings, S. D., when young Maurice had reached the age of eleven
years, in order that their family of three children, of whom he was the
youngest, might obtain good educational advantages. He attended the Brookings
High School for three years, and then entered preparatory courses for entry into
Brookings College, now the South Dakota State College of Agriculture and
Mechanical Arts. Taking up a general science course in college, he graduated
from that institution with the Class of 1913, with his degree of B. S.

   Following his graduation, Mr. Greenly immediately went to Honolulu, and there
engaged in teaching in private schools for one year, and for the following seven
years taught in the public schools there. Returning to California in 1922, he
spent that year and the next as a post graduate student in the educational
department of Stanford University, and received his degree of A. M. in June,
1923. In September, 1923, he entered upon his duties as principal of the Hilmar
Union High School and has since that time devoted his energies, both mental and
physical, to the building up of the school under his care and maintaining its
high standard of efficiency.

   The Hilmar Union High comprises the following subsidiary grammar schools: the
Elim Union, Fairview, Hilmar, Merquin Union, Riverside and Raisin districts,
Prairie Flower being joint with Stanislaus County. A regularly accredited high
school with the University of California, with courses in commercial and
vocational instruction as well as the regular high school courses; and situated
as it is, in the midst of the fertile Hilmar Colony, in the northern part of
Merced County, the school has an important bearing on the future in store for
this county. There are 130 pupils at the present writing, 1925, and this
enrollment mounts steadily with the growing population and development of the
district. Housed in a modern and well-planned building of brick construction,
built at a cost of $35,000, in 1919, the school was first started in 1911; and
eight years later the bond issue was established for the badly needed new
building. The first issue of $28,000 was found insufficient and an additional
$6000 voted. Mr. Greenly is the fourth principal of the school, the others who
served before him being W. W. Pettit, Herbert Kittredge, and A. L. Wedell. A
"born" educator, and intensely energetic and interested in his work, Mr. Greenly
keeps the Hilmar Union High up to a fine standard of work, getting unusual
results from his earnest work in striving to bring out the inherent ability in
each individual student.

   During his years spent in Honolulu, Mr. Greenly met his future wife, and
there his marriage occurred, in 1917, to Miss Helen Hoag, a native of Pasadena,
Cal., and a graduate of the San Jose Teachers College, Class of 1915. Three
children have blessed their union: Maurice Gaylord Jr.; Patricia Jean; and
Marian Leilani.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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