Anderson Union High School - Aurora Yearbook (Anderson, CA)

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Eig1z.tee1'z Santini' Ullman Eininrg L.xL'RA lV.'XI.'l'ON, '16, and GliR.Xl..l7 EYRI-I, '16 ln 1912 as Freshmen green To School we bravely came Our class of thirty-three in stepped And soon knew all the game. Vile learned of books and sports full well llut some disliked the grind So quit our ranks for distant folds Thus leaving few behind. lVith half our class in lands unknown As Sophs we started ont, lYe sent a delegate to rule, .-Xnd put the league to rout. The Hag of red and white was flung Far out upon the wind, The Freshmen tried to take it down llut no! we didn't bend. A-X5 -luniors, thirteen, we came back, And changed the dear old rule, Wie were a happy, lucky class And loved the dear old school. In basket ball we did our share, In books we all excelled, Some people thought We were the ones That ought to be expelled. Our Senior year is here at last. Diplomas well in sight, The thing for which the oil we burnt Thro' many a weary night. The cards and invitations loom Across our vision gay, The Senior pin of class sixteen XYill gleam to light the way. Our aim is won, but, dear old school, Our hearts will grieve when gone, You started us on the road of life, Well love you 'till its done. And when old age comes creeping on, Our thoughts will turn to you .Xnd bless the time and happiness Xlfhen rallied ,round the blue.

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WILMA NUTTING None but himself can be his parallelf'-Theobuld. LAURA AGNES WALTON And touched bv her fair tendencies Gladlier grew. -Milton. OTIS EDWARD CARLSON Hllldllvd with sanctity of reason. -Milton. Seventeen

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0112155 Elgrnphvrg By XYVILMA NUT'r1Ncz, 'l6. Thirty long and weary years have I spent in Alaska. I severed all connections with my friends and schoolmates when I left. Many misfortunes have befallen me since I left that dear old town in California. Oh, how those years shine in my memory, as the brightest days of my life. I see the row of happy-faced graduates move slowly upon the platform in the hall. How we looked forward to the future, which all thought shone so brightly before us, no one knowing where or what we would be now. Disappointed in love at the age of twenty-one and with a teachers certificate, I journeyed to Alaska to give my life to instructing the ignorant. Oh! that I might have those thirty desolate years to live over! No newspaper ever passed before my eyes- now I am nearing the home of my schooldays with 1ny pension papers which Ql have striven for during those thirty years past. At a station a dignified and elderly man enters the train-he has evidently not seen the misfortunes of life. Wfhatl Have I seen him before? Another glimpse, can it be he? il shall speak and ask him. It is! It is! I call him Arthur!'! The dignified man looks up to me and says. Madame, I fear you have made some mistake, l am Governor Davis of California. Oh, my gray hair! not to be recognized by my school friend. He con- tinues to stare at me. At last he comes over to me and asks my name. Evi- dently some recollection disturbs him. I answer '!IVilma Nuttingf! I-Ie grasps my hand and inquires where I had been so long. Wfe settle down into a seat in the car for a chat. t'You should see Redding, states Governor Davis. UIt is a very small town. NVhat happened to it? Oh, you haven't heard? Anderson is now the county seat of Shasta and has over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants. 'l'he .Xnderson-Cottonwood Irrigation Canal turned Anderson Valley from what is was thirty years ago into the richest land of the United States. I spend a month there every year when business is not too rushing, enthusiastically explained Governor Davis. Isn't that une? llut what of the rest of the class ? I anxiously inquire. t Jh. that is a puzzle. The class of 1916 surely has some famous members. Look at lidwin Stone, in 1932 he was elected as state surveyor after having served two terms as county surveyor here. lrIe astonished the nation with a hook of sonnets and a national song. So he has become a poet as well as a noted surveyor. lflis wife is one of the leading society women of Anderson as well as of San lirancisco. They also spend about a month in Anderson every yearf! His wife! 1' Can't you guess? That senior romance never broke up, though they were not married until 1923. Marjorie went to San Francisco Normal for two years and then to U. C. where she took up dramatics and vocal lessons. She spent about three or four years on the stage and spent one year in Europe. Nineteen