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

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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

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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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where she sang before the President of Germany, England and lfrancc. She made her first appearance in the Anderson Home Theater where her singing was heard by a Spaniard, who advised her to take up training in Spain. She took his advice and spent three weeks in Spain. I ani so glad for both Edwin and Marjorie, but what of lflelen? You know I always envied her, her red curls. Did she 'settle down,' or did she re- ceive her pension papers, or is she the dentist's wife ? . You can never guess what she did. She got her certificate and after teaching several years went to Chico Normal. There she spent two years. lVe thought she was waiting for lllanchard to get his dentist's degree. but no, the cruel-hearted girl deserted him on the night of his graduation and flew into the arms of a rich old man of eighty to be his darling. In 1925. three years later, he died, leaving her heiress to ten million dollars. Now with the help of Mrs. Stone she has established a home for hoboes and Chinamen. Blanchard remains true to her and it is thought by some that she will accept him at some future time. And, oh yes, I suppose you would like to know what became of Gerald. You and he were always such good friends-well he entered U. C. and later went to Stanford. I-Ie wrote a book on the treatment of mosquitoes and became so famous that he was sent as California Senator. That was not high enough, he ran for President twice and was defeated both times, and now is owner of a big prune and dairy ranch where he and 'Tiny' live. XrVell, do he and 'Tiny' get along well together? 1 smilingly asked. Oh yes, once in a while. I went out to spend a day there last year and they only had three quarrels-I left before noon. Iiflary and Otis were there visiting them, having just returned from their honeymoon .which had lasted three years. They had been to China, Japan, and had toured liurope. Mary was a renowned dancer before she married Otis. Otis is also a very important personage, having been Mayor of Anderson for ten years. when he resigned, finding out that he and Mary really loved each other. They have a beautiful residence in Anderson where they intend to reside. Otis was a grammar school teacher for several years. Becoming tired of teaching he went to U. C., from which he graduated in ten years with a high school cer- tificate. He was principal of A. U. H. S. with fifteen assistant teachers for two years, and was then elected Mayor, explained Governor Davis. W'ell, well, isn't that fine? lflut Otis and Mary, who ever thought of them. I thought Otis and Laura Vtfalton would be married. They were engaged when I left here. Wfhat happened? I asked. Oh, Laura turned out to be a man-hater and is now a second Mrs. llankhurst, striving to get Wfoman-suffrage for Germany. VVhy, I didn't know Laura could speak German. How did she learn ? XWell. said Arthur, she took a course in a girls' seminary under Pearl Graham. You remember her? She was our 'Soph' class teacher. I guess I do. But I thought Laura was a teacher. i'She did teach for two years but a rich uncle died and left her two million dollars so she started out to get an education, after which she carried on her life work. She no longer needed Otis. All she was going to marry him for was so she wouldn't have to teach all her life. Twenty