Mayor Roger Hedgecock

Mayor Roger Hedgecock

Nearly three decades ago, on October 1, 1985, San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock left the courthouse after being convicted of conspiracy and perjury relating to unaccounted-for campaign funds, with a resignation to follow soon after. History repeated itself recently when Mayor Bob Filner resigned in the wake of multiple accusations of sexual harassment and a campaign demanding his recall. As with Filner, it was the public that brought down Hedgecock after accusations in the press, specifically by women. Maureen O’Connor, Hedgecock’s opponent in the 1983 election, took him down through Helen Copley’s newspaper, The Union. (O’Connor later found herself in trouble, having gambled $2 million earmarked for charity.) In a recent open letter to Filner, Hedgecock, now a local TV and talk radio commentator, urged him to resign, as he had “lost the bond of trust” with the city voters, also admitting that he himself “lost that trust and resigned.”

Resignations All Around

• 3

  Mayors who have resigned in recent history (6 total)

• 271

  Days Filner held in office

• 951

  Days Hedgecock held office

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• 19+

  Women accusing Filner of harassment

• 9

  Terms served by Filner as a Congressman

• 2005

  Year Dick Murphy resigned as mayor due to financial problems relating to the pension crisis

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Francis Parker School Mission Hills 1913

Francis Parker School Mission Hills 1913

Lemon Grove School, Lincoln Street 1905

Lemon Grove School, Lincoln Street 1905

Middletown School, northwest corner of Union & Elm, Little Italy 1906

Middletown School, northwest corner of Union & Elm, Little Italy 1906

Miramar School, Miramar Road 1905

Miramar School, Miramar Road 1905

Notice that Miramar, one of the county’s last one-room schoolhouses, was a contemporary of the castle-style behemoth in Lemon Grove. Middletown School, a Victorian gem built in the 1880s, stood about where Washington Elementary School is today. Francis Parker, celebrating its centennial this year, was first located where Mission Hills Nursery now stands.

Get Schooled

• $275

  Price, plus $111 sales tax, of Miramar School, sold in a September 1956 auction

• $70

  Monthly salary of a female teacher in the San Diego City School District in 1870 (male teachers made $100)

• 75

  of the 169 students enrolled at the Lemon Grove School in 1931 were of Mexican descent

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• 1931

  Mexican-American students barred from (then allowed to return to) Lemon Grove School in “the nation’s first successful desegregationcourt case”

• 5

  Number of SD teachers in 1893, out of 67, who had graduated from college

• 27’x35’

  Dimensions of the classroom at North Chollas School (1892), with a 14-foot ceiling

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Bill Walton, Helix High School

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