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the things we need to research
ACWIK04 (talk) 18:17, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Facts about the past
 * Facts about the present
 * academics
 * athletics
 * spiritual aspects
 * curriculum
 * References

Places to research
Rvanarsdale (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2021 (UTC) Rvanarsdale (talk) 19:27, 29 January 2021 (UTC) Rvanarsdale (talk) 19:02, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Wide
 * Google
 * San Joaquin Valley Library online resources
 * America's Newspapers
 * Archives Unbound
 * Academic Databases
 * LA Times
 * New York Times
 * CDE.CA.GOV
 * Mid-range
 * Fresno County Historical Society
 * Fresno County and City documentation
 * Section 32, Township 13 South, Range 21 East, Mount Diablo Principal MeridianFind our Section, Township & Range
 * Fresno County Historical Property Atlases
 * Fruit and Napa Location 1920
 * Olive Avenue location 1891 1907 1909 1913 1920
 * USGS Maps
 * Fresno County property atlases
 * Fresno Bee
 * San Joaquin Valley Sun
 * ABC 30
 * KVPR (Valley Public Radio)
 * Narrow
 * Spectrum
 * Review
 * Adventist Today
 * Adventist News Network
 * Adventist Encyclopedia
 * |adventist|academy Adventist Yearbook

=Links for Religious Section= https://adventistfaith.com/media/pacific-sunrise/2020/07/14/fresno-adventist-academy-emphasizes-outreach-july-14th-2020/

https://adventistfaith.com/uncategorized/2020/07/14/fresno-adventist-academy-emphasizes-outreach/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littleduck98 (talk • contribs) 17:32, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Fruit and Napa campus
Established 1906; learned from photographs in Alumni room Rvanarsdale (talk) 18:42, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Note: add the photograph of the Fruit Avenue Campus — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmberKishihara (talk • contribs) 18:32, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

"O" Street Campus
• Lunch areas were segregated by gender. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beckyxgarrido (talk • contribs) 18:43, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Fresno was going through an economic depression in the 1890's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littleduck98 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

The building across the street from the Belmont Avenue entrance to Roeding Park was built in 1953 as an auditorium and gymnasium for the Fresno Union Academy. According to a 1953 Fresno Bee story, the auditorium also served as temporary headquarters for the Central Seventh-day Adventist Church after its first office at Mariposa and O streets was sold. The building cost $10,000 and was constructed of "light concrete blocks and features interior flooring of hardwood and asphalt tile," the story said. "The main floor also has space for two classrooms" for fifth- and sixth-grade classes. Offices, storage rooms, and a kitchen were located under the stage area, and the building had heating and air conditioning. According to a history by the local Seventh-day Adventist Church, the school opened at Mariposa and O in 1897 and moved to Fruit and Napa avenues in 1906. In 1921, the school moved to 841 Belmont Ave. at Teilman Avenue, not far from the future site of the gymnasium. In 1969, the name of the school was changed to Fresno Adventist Academy and the school moved to its current location on East Olive Avenue near Minnewawa Avenue. Fresno city directories show the gymnasium was used until at least 1973. The following year, it is listed as the Wonderland Skating Rink. Today a chain-link fence surrounds the property, and the building houses the Hmong Memorial Chapel.(https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/ask-me/article19521054.html) Enliv2 (talk) 00:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Fresno Academy
From Volume 21, Issue 39 (May 11, 1922): It was one of the three non-boarding academies opened that school year in the Pacific Union Conference. Three years before that, it was an intermediate school with ten grades and four teachers. "During the past summer, the church voted to operate the school as a non-boarding academy. Permission was obtained form the local and union conference, and the church went to work to prepare building and equipment. Nearly $4,000 was raised in cash and pledges for this purpose." The money was used to build a new two-room building on the four acres that belonged to the school, and to remodel the old building. "Our school is located just south of, and across a paved highway from the city park." During this year, they had a main building which had an office, chapel/study room, laboratory, library/English room, science/sewing room. There was also a manual training building which had two rooms, which had dimensions 12x45 feet and 12x12 feet. There was a grade building that had two rooms. They had a water tank and a power pump, and they were laying a gas line to be piped into the science room. For the following year, they were going to add another room to the grade building for the eighth grade. They also want to make the manual training building bigger and add a paint room, tool room, stock room, and power room.

How the library was built: they called for money and/or books, but they didn't receive much. They then had the idea for a campaign, in which the girls and the boys competed against each other to bring in the most books. The boys brought in about 1,775 books, and the girls brought in about 1,915 books, which made the total 3,690. 1,600 of them were added to the shelves, which totaled 2,700 (a lot of the books weren't very useful, or could be exchanged for books they needed). The boys lost the competition, so they had to entertain the girls and the faculty at a banquet in the science room.

From Volume 25, Issue 1 (August 13, 1925): (There's a cool picture of Fresno Academy in this one) The Fresno church had provided education for kids since 1896, by Elder H.G. Thurston and Lottie Walker. Around this time of the Issue, they had almost two hundred students and ten teachers.

The school adjoined Roeding park. Some of the classes were held outdoors in the park under the trees.

There's something called the Harvest Ingathering capmpaign that the academy participates in to raise money; it's mentioned in a lot of the Recorders. The address used to be Fresno Academy, Route J, Box 43, Fresno, California.

From Volume 25, Issue 17 (December 3, 1925): SA (students' association) was recently organized. The first president was Jack Champion, and Lenora Allen was the secretary. The purpose of SA was for students to unite and thus be more involved in the activities of school, and to make school better as a whole.

From Volume 25, Issue 29 (February 25, 1926): A campaign was launched for a new heating system; the plan was to raise $100 among the students and faculty, and the board and church would supply the rest. Maroon and ivory were chosen as Fresno Academy's school colors.

From Volume 26, Issue 6 (September 16, 1926): "The first chapel period and opening exercises were held September 7 (1926)."

From Volume 26, Issue 8: A school bus had recently been purchased; 25 students from the Biola and Rolinda districts would be able to attend Fresno Academy. The science room was remodeled into a cafeteria.

From Volume 71, Issue 37 (March 27, 1972): Over the weekend of April 1, Fresno Adventist Academy had its fiftieth Anniversary as a 12-grade school. The "Fresno church" was actually the Fresno Central Church, or the Fresno English Church. They were inspired by Ellen White to provide Christian education to kids. The first non-graded classroom was in 1897, with a dozen students, conducted by Lottie Walker.

"In 1917, George Driver, a member of the Fresno Church, donated five acres of land at 841 West Belmont where a school was built to house the elementary and secondary grades. This operated as a 10-grade school until 1921." The school board then decided to add grades 11 and 12.

The first three seniors graduated in the spring of 1922. The president of the class was Joe T. Porter (who later on served the denomination for 41 years and 20 of those as the educational superintendent for 3 California conferences).

The first year FAA was a 12-grade school, they had 110 students and 7 teachers. By 1955, the elementary had 195 students (a teacher was needed for each 8th grade class), and the academy had 91 students and 9 teachers.

In the year the Issue was released, the K-12th grade had 419 students and 28 faculty and staff members. Up to then, 779 students had graduated.

It was Elder L. R. Rasmussen and Elder W.O. Baldwin who advised that the school should be expanded and rebuilt. 40 acres of land were bought at 5397 E. Olive Avenue, and in 1967, phase I of the building program was completed. It was ready to house the K-6th grades. 7th and 8th grade were able to transfer to the new campus in December 1971. According to Elder Charles Cook, the chairman of the building committee, in 1972, (that year) the plans were to complete phase II of the building program.

From [Volume 28 Issue 8] (September 27, 1928): Brother Ellsworth Whitney from Pacific Union College became the head of the music department. A new music hall was being added on campus.

From Volume 28 Issue 29 (February 21, 1929) A cafeteria building was being built. The boys at the academy did a lot of the work. Thirteen typing students became the largest typing class in the history of Fresno Academy.

From Volume 30 Issue 7 (September 18, 1930): The address here was 841 West Belmont Avenue, Fresno, California?

From Spectrum in 2021 the co-founder of Adventist Health, Frank F. Dupper attended our school.

From Spectrum in 2008 we have solar panels.

From Adventist Faith in 2020 the kids fill backpacks for the unhoused in 2020. Rvanarsdale (talk) 17:39, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

The list of all the issues that "Fresno Academy" shows up in.

Here's some information from the Fresno Bee:

1987 burglars stole $1000 worth of equipment from the Industrial Arts building

1987 An FAA student speculates casually about AIDS

1988 Natalie Treichel won a scholarship

1988 Linda Russo won a scholarship

1991 we were the People's Church League champions, whatever that means

1991 apparently a Baptist Church met on campus?

1993 former student is an actor

1993 Manning starts a nonprofit with his friend; he'll run the olympic torch in 3 years

1993 one of several articles about raising money for the gym

1994 FAA student is a semifinalist competition of slobs

1995 building the gym

1996 one of our former students carried the Olypmpic torch

1996 Walmart gives Mrs. Ricchiuti a prize

1997 the year touted as our centennial Del E. Webb BOUGHT THE YANKEES?????? WHAT? I AM SCREAMING

1997 Our centennial, more in depth This article apparently includes a picture of Mrs. Ricchiuti in 1897 getup!!!??!? I want that photograph!?

1999 Jackie Esposo is the piano soloist at Fresno City College's spring concert

There is a lot more in the 2000s and 2010s, but that's for later. Rvanarsdale (talk) 20:32, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

=General Information=
 * Source: https://www.adventistdirectory.org/ViewEntity.aspx?EntityID=18339


 * Address: 5397 E Olive Ave Fresno CA 93727-2522 USA


 * Principal: 	Gayle C Norton


 * Phone: 	559-251-5548


 * Fax: 	559-252-6495


 * Email: 	cyoung@faa.org (wrong)


 * Website: 	http://www.faa.org


 * Facebook: 	https://www.facebook.com/FresnoAdventistAcademy


 * Instagram: 	https://www.instagram.com/in_the_loop_faa/


 * Maps: 	Google (Español)  (Português)  (Français)  (Lat/Lon)  -  Bing


 * Lat/Lon: 	Latitude: 36.759332, Longitude: -119.711482, Source: Address


 * Sunset: 	5:58 PM  TimeZone: UTC-8


 * Conference: 	Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (website)


 * Union: 	Pacific Union Conference (website)


 * Division: 	North American Division (website)


 * Type: 	Complete Secondary (K-12) Sch (ESCK)


 * Updated: 	Tuesday, September 25, 2018


 * Open Date: July 1, 1980  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marievg16* (talk • contribs) 19:00, 5 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Source: 	eAdventist

Wintersteen Aviation, 1984-1987

Between 1984 and 1987, William Wintersteen conducted ten individual oral histories of pioneer aviators. These interviews contain memories of barnstorming, aerobatics, local airports, teaching at WWII flight schools, building airline companies, and performing stunt flying in Hollywood movies.

ETHNIC ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, 1977-1978 The Ethnic Oral History Project began in late 1976. The project kicked off in July 1977. Over the next few months, the Society Archivist, Ronald Noricks, PhD., Vivian Jones, and Ben Garza started reaching out to the Fresno community for participants. The oral histories were guided by a series of questions posed by the interviewer. Topics were wide ranging and included each interviewee’s background and what schools he or she attended, political interests and affiliations, when and why he or she moved to Fresno County, life in the region’s African American and Mexican American communities in years prior to World War I, identification of and discussions about community leaders, discrimination, reaction to World War I, the KKK, the Depression, the Red Scare in the 1920s, Prohibition, reaction to Pearl Harbor and World War II, the Bracero Program and Civil Rights activities.

© 2021. These oral histories are licensed under a CC BY_NC_ND 4.0 license.

Creative Commons BY-NC-ND: This license allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator, Fresno County Historical Society. ACWIK04 (talk) 19:09, 5 March 2021 (UTC) https://www.valleyhistory.org/ethnic-oral-history-collection — Preceding unsigned comment added by ACWIK04 (talk • contribs) 19:14, 5 March 2021 (UTC)