Anaheim Union High School - Colonist Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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THE TRADITION OF THE ABPLANALP NAME I will attempt to tell you the tradition of the Abplanalp name, as it was told to me by my grandfather. In Switzerland is a mountain peak called Mt. Planap. There was a small village at the foot of this mountain where some Swiss people lived. These people made their living by carving wood and by watch-making. Each family had a few cows, and in the summer one or two people would take them up into the mountains to care for them. They would make cheese from the milk, and when the cheese was sold, each person would receive his share of the money. One day, about four hundred years ago, no one knows the exact date, an avalanche, without any warning whatever, came clown the side of the mountain and the village at the foot of it was destroyed. The people from the neighboring villages came to see what damage the ava- lanche had done, and they found a baby boy in his cradle. He was not old enough to know what his name was, or anything about himself, The people from these other villages did not know who he was, and were at a loss to know what to do about his name when he grew up. They decided they would have to give him a name. VVhat was it to be? The name finally decided upon was to prefix the Latin or German prefix ab', meaning t'from to the name Planalp, making Abplanalp, meaning from Planalpf' You have probably already noticed that Planalp can be spelled either back- wards or forwards. There are a number of families of Planalps in the United States and also some in Switzerland. They are all related and are the descendants of the man who had this strange experience when he was a baby, and which resulted in the origin of the name, Abplanalp. L. ABPLANALP, '25. CALIFORNIA AS SEEN BY A NEWCOMER In making one's first trip to California, many strange and beautiful scenes come into view. Perhaps the first thing you notice would be the trees and grass, for when one has traveled across the barren desert for several trying hours you are able to appre- ciate the green vegetationg and when it flourishes so abundantly it makes it even more attractive. VVhen you see the many tropical plants and especially the palm trees, you might feel as if you were in Hawaii, but this foreign feeling soon passes. Of course the ocean is a great delight to all. VVhen one catches the first silvery glimpse of it you are enthralled, its beauty being beyond your power of description. Another great attraction is the flowers and it is a great source of wonder to the Easterner how certain Howers can grow to such great heights when he has spent nearly a life time trying to make the same flowers grow a foot in a green- house back home. Every newcomer feels that he really has not seen California until he has seen the orange and lemon groves. The vegetables out here have a different flower and seem to have a great deal more color to them than the ones in the East. Throughout California the sunlight, the white buildings and green plants make a very clean, appealing and picturesque background. Yet the newcomer has the feeling that it isn't real, and if it was not for the irrigation it would be nothing more or less -than a desert. VVhen one looks at the grass and trees that are not watered and cared for every day, they see the tell tale coating of dust. There seems to be something in the atmosphere of California that makes the nwcomer feel the welcome and he soon learns to love this land of orange blossoms just as the natives do. RUTH JULIAN. I 28 l

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EMMA HFNTON Vice President, '19 Secretary, '20 junior Annual Editor, '21 Anoraneo Stall, '22 Junior Plays, '22 Annual Editor. '23 Commercial Club, '22 Business Manager Plays, '22 Beauty Contest, '23 Quarter Editor Anorance Staff, '23 O. G. A. Vaudeville '22 lJregs, '23 Business Manager Senior Play, '23 LFCI LE ALLEN Honor Society Spanish Club Spanish Play, '23 ALMA BARMES Debating, ' Dramatics, Honor Society, '22, '23 22 '23 H. XVALLACE Basketball, '22, '23 Football, '22 Vaudeville, '21 Stagecraft, '23 Annual Staff, '23 ROGER POHLMAN Basketball, '21, '22, '23 A Club, '23 Junior Play, '22 Senior Play, '23 Basketball Manager. '23 Annual Staff, '23 FLORENCE AUSTIN Class President, '22 French Club, '22, '23 Tennis Team, '22, '23 Self Government, '23 Honor Society, '22, '23 Senior Play, '23 A Club, '23 RUTH KLEMM Entered A. l'. H. S. from Santa Ana High Q School -in September, 1921 Kommercial Club, '22 XVILTON ABPLANALP Debate, '22, '23 Student Body Representative, '23 t Class President, '23 Senior Play, '23 A Club, '22, '23 Honor Society. '22, '23 Spanish Club, '22 MILDRED HENRY Commercial Club, '22 French Club, '23 FRANCES ADAMS Honor Society, '22, '23 A',C1ub, '21, '22, '23 Girls' League President, '22. '23 Class Secretary, '22 Class Annual, '21, '22 Class Editor Yaudeville, '22 Six Cups of Chocolate '22 Junior Play, '22 Operetta, '21 Pageant, '23 Baseball, '21, '22, '23 Tennis, '21 Basketball, '21, '22, '23 Self Government, '22, '23 l30l