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Florence Wical recalls her life story growing up around California in the Seventh Day Adventist community in the early 1900s. She recounts how her family arrived in San Bernardino in the late 1800s and what San Bernardino and Loma Linda were like.…

While Phillip Cruz was fighting in WWII Fernanda Cruz was working at Redlands. In her previous telegram she told Phillip about an opportunity to teach summer school and Phillip agreed that she should take up the offer.

The newly remodeled Mission School Building.

Fernanda Cruz grew up in Azusa, California and loved school and especially reading.

Fernanda Cruz grew up in Azusa California. As a Mexican immigrant her and her family celebrated Mexican holidays and formed a strong community base though community events such as these.

Invitation for Fernanda (Nanda) Cruz's 9th Birthday.

Fernanda Cruz's first teaching job was at Guasti in Ontario. She taught these Mexican and Italian students in makeshift wooden buildings.

Fernanda Cruz in her classroom at Mission School. Mission School was a Demonstration School. Demonstration schools aimed to teach students with hands on learning.

Fernanda Cruz was a first and second grade teacher who first taught at Bryn Mawr School and fought to close the segregated school. After the school was closed she went to Mission School. She inspired many students with her teaching.

Cruz with her first and second grade class in 1945. The racial mix of students indicates many of the Bryn Mawr School pupils had advanced to higher grades.