Monte Vista Christian School history

Martha Sailer came to Monte Vista Christian School in 1940 as a freshman.

John and Lorna Sailer came to Monte Vista Christian School in 1950, after both finished at San Jose State; they greatly strengthened the school.

In 1951, the school newspaper, The Messenger, was begun.

In 1954, Monte Vista Christian School was made into an irrevocable non-profit corporation, which meant the school could never be sold to benefit anyone.

After his death in 1959, she spent the next 30 years developing and maintaining the school library.

In 1960, a new Grade-A dairy was built on campus by Mrs.

The school purchased it from them over a ten year period, and in 1964, the small piece of land held in trust was deeded over to the school.

Clark Wetzel came in 1974, starting as the boys dorm dean and science teacher, and later became principal of the high school.

The daily busing program was started in 1978 with a single bus to bring students to campus.

He, along with Mary Jackson’s input, designed it, and Harry York built it in 1982.

Dale supervised the building of the high school gym, which began in July 1984.

That building was later used for the music department, then history classrooms, and in 2007 it started a new life as a blackbox theatre for the drama department.

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