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Nordhoff High School is the public high school serving Ojai, California and most of the surrounding communities within the Ojai Valley, with exception of the towns of Oak View and Casitas Springs, which are located within the boundaries of the Ventura Unified School District. The school is located at 1401 Maricopa Highway, just to west of the City and near the Census tract designated town of Meiners Oaks. Nordhoff is the only High School within the Ojai Unified School District, with the exception of Chaparral Continuation High School. Established in 1910, the school celebrated its Centennial in 2010.〔(Nordhoff Centennial plans )〕 The original High School was located at 703 El Paseo Road, which is now the site of Matilija Junior High. The original school buildings, located in an area known as the "Arbolada", were built/rebuilt in the late 1920s using traditional Spanish (Mission Style) architecture. The school moved to its current location in 1966. "Matilija", being the former site that served as Nordhoff High School, still features large tiles with the initials "NUHS" (Nordhoff Union High School - original name of the school district) on the steps of the athletic field. ==Name== Nordhoff High School is named after the original town name for Ojai. The town was originally named Nordhoff in honor of the author Charles Nordhoff who wrote the book ''"California for Health, Pleasure and Residence"'' published in June 1872. Early settlers of European Ancestry were said to have been impressed with the book enough to move to and settle the area, eventually naming the town after Mr. Nordhoff. The following statement was included in an obituary written just after his death, which occurred in San Francisco on July 14, 1901: :''The town of Nordhoff was named for Charles Nordhoff, in appreciation of the good words spoken of the Ojai Valley as a health resort, both as a writer and in personal talks with friends.'' According to local records, the name "Nordhoff" sounded "a bit too German", and the town name was eventually changed prior to World War I, when American sentiment became increasingly anti-German. As part of this trend, Nordhoff was renamed Ojai in 1917, supposedly at the instance of local business man and philanthropist Edward Libbey. Although the original town has since been renamed, the High School, along with the original Cemetery, are the only two significant landmarks which still bear the original town name of "Nordhoff." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nordhoff High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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