1965 Ewing Gym, Atascadero

January 10, 1965
Mixed in with negatives of another story was this image. The caption as published is below.

Atascadero gets new gym
Norman Norton, a supervisor with Maino Construction Company, stands before new gymnasium at the Atascadero High School. Maino Construction Company is constructing a three building complex at the high school. Work is expected to be completed in May.

The gym was later named for R.H. “Bud” Ewing.
According to biography provided by Donn Clickard and Bob Sarber,
Ewing came to Atascadero High School in 1936 and spent the next 35 years as a teacher, counselor, administrator and coach.
Beyond the impact he had on the students he taught and coached, Ewing left several enduring legacies at Atascadero High School. Following World War II, he led the effort to construct Memorial Stadium, and in 1946 he launched the Atascadero Memorial Track Meet. Fittingly, following his retirement in 1971, the gymnasium at Atascadero High School was named in his honor.
Bob Sarber provided the photo of Ewing which shows in the background one of the old buildings on the Atascadero High School campus later demolished in an earthquake retrofit.

Sarber is a 1979 A.H.S. graduate, on the board of the Atascadero Greyhound Athletic Foundation since its inception in the early 1990s. He serves on the Atascadero Greyhound Hall of Fame committee and is the Web master of www.gohounds.org.

Clickard has been involved with the Atascadero Unified School District since 1970. He is a retired athletic director of Atascadero High School and now is a school board member and the executive director of the Atascadero Greyhound Athletic Foundation.

1965 Tribune Newsroom

This may only be interesting to me, but here it is, the newsroom of the Telegram-Tribune from the mid 1960’s. These frames were at end of a roll of film from a box labeled 1964-1965. Those who remember film will recall shooting the last few frames in the camera before rewinding the roll and developing it.
I asked writing coach and former Tribune reporter/editor Jim Hayes if he recognized anyone in the picture but these folks were all before his tenure.
Said Hayes, “All the guys look like newsmen I knew in the ‘50s and ‘60s who dressed in the white shirt/unknotted tie uniform.”
Reporters still use telephones and notebooks but today often type interviews directly into the computer rather than the old notebook-typewriter-typesetter process.
This was the Johnson Ave. building (now the location of Scolaris) that former reporter Dan Stephens called The Pillbox. The cinder block building was designed almost without windows but made up for it with the healthy buzzing glow of mismatched fluorescent lights.

UPDATE: Just found this frame at the beginning of a roll, an accidental record of the photo desk. Tools of the trade include a loupe, contact sheets, light meter, assignments and negatives and an ashtray.