Riverside County
Biographies
HAROLD
D. YOUNG
Educational work in Beaumont, Riverside county, is ably conducted by Harold D. Young, superintendent
of schools and principal of the high school. He was born in Ocosta, Washington,
June 28, 1898, a son of J. S. and Lucetta (Gay)
Young, the former now deceased. The father was born in Indiana and devoted his
life to agricultural pursuits, which he followed in Iowa for years. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and an earnest, sincere Christian. In
the family there were ten children, of whom seven survive.
Harold D. Young completed his high
school education at Selah, Washington, and attended the College of Puget Sound
at Tacoma, that state, where he won the A. B. degree in 1920. Continuing his
studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, he received the M. S.
degree from that institution in 1924 and afterward taught for a time in his
native state. In 1925 he came to Beaumont as an instructor in the high school,
of which he was made principal in 1929, and was also chosen superintendent of
the city schools, an office for which his training and ability well qualified
him. During the seven years of his residence in this community he has exerted
every effort to further its advancement along educational lines and under his
regime the Beaumont high school has made particularly marked progress until it
now ranks with the best in this part of the state.
In 1923 Mr. Young was married to
Miss Alma Keith, by whom he has a son, Robert James, aged two years. At the
time of the World war Mr. Young was a member of the Students Army Training
Corps. He belongs to the American Legion and is also a Rotarian. As president
of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church he is a factor of
importance in the religious life of Beaumont, and his professional affiliations
are with the California High School Principals Association, the State Teachers
Association and the National Education Association. To his work he brings the
zest, energy and enthusiasm of youth and has every quality essential to
progress and success in the educational field.
Transcribed By:
Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: California
of the South Vol. II,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
487-488, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
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