A SHORT HISTORY OF CVCA

TIMELINE: 1909 TO 2005

1909
A $1500 buggy painting shop is converted into the first school building.

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1910
Miss Benton teaches the first classes for 10 students. She teaches in one room of the building and lives in the other.

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1911
Miss Benton moves out of the school building to accommodate the growing number of students. Guy Mann is hired to teach academy classes.

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1915
A new four-room school was completed at 5th and E Street. In 1915 the principal was Clarence Voris and the teachers were Ethyl Foresburg and Mrs. Lewis.

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1935
Modesto Union Academy was created when the Salida and Modesto churches merged their schools together.

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1937
The first senior class graduates.

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1952
10 acres were purchased at the corner of Hatch and Central for a new school.

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1964
A fire destroys the Modesto gym, band room, art room, and home economics facility.

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1966
A new gym was built by donations and insurance money after the fire.

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1974
Modesto Union Academy changes its name to Modesto Adventist Academy.

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2000
A new school complex is finished, classes begin in the spring.

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2005
Modesto Adventist Academy changes its name to Central Valley Christian Academy.

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