Bonita High School - Echoes Yearbook (La Verne, CA)

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JANE Y KISHIMOTO Jus+ Jane always smiling a never worries learning lo drive bul olw llwe care' loves sporls readings a lavorile lnfercullural Clu b glee ir G A A llces +o apply llne needle and 'rlwread willw rene 'ro suc ceed in whalever l do KENNETH LEE STARNER MARILYN JO METZGER Almo quiel buf delinifely Marilyn no life m Aslronomy Club bluon brauny willy plays a quilar for pleasure pe p py Y Teens wanls lo become professional G A A of guilarusl Clness Club s e n I 0 r' rung commillee nice Boys Associalion lvl S A C swe kid ERNEST ATWOOD KERR MIKE AGUIRRE Woody . . . lavorile lwobby 's Jus+ Milne . . . lvlolor Bug pnolograplwy . . . lileis rn- orexy . . . aulo slwop and more on is 'ro be a prin r . . . aulo slnop . . . ioolball . . . Toni . . . Boys' Associalion good nalured . . . The shows . . . impisli . . . cule . . . 'rlwe lliing . . . always a grin very likable . . . car crazy . . . rnodesl. . .ever depend- . . . olans lo worlc in a iob able . , ,+lwa+ car loaded willn shop. boys lgirls7l . . .worlcing lo be a rnedafo .. AzJsa aulo repair. gf BETTY JEAN WURTZ Windy...r'ns+fn+o e wil . . . prexy of lhal alhlelic or anizalion, G. .A. . .. inlroducing iipersonalily ilsell ...worlcs lward on llie Eclioesd . . . wanls lo be an arl'is'r . . . P.A.L.S .... 'ilirsl squad 'ro llie rear, rnarclif' Drill Team . . . slwe loves fo dance . . . slwe lakes no+es for the senior class as she is one secre- Tary . . . see lier nexl year a+ MSAC.

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I p y . . . lofs of church achvily . . . siudious. 'fF 0 i I A VIVIAN CROPPER Viv . . . imporfed from Philip- pines . . . sparkling eyes . . . swell personalify . . . wriies leifers To foreign couniries . . . collecls salr and pepper shakers . . . headed for New England School of Theology, Massa- chuseffs . . .be a missionary .... Spanish Club ... ushere++e ar 'unior la HOWARD EVERETT TOWNE Gus . . . fall, dark, and hand- some .. . F.F,A. prexy . .. raises Duroc hogs I947 4-l-l All Slar . . . frack . . . l-li-Y . . . lheaier . . . caille, hogs and horses and more hogs . . . 'rhe smile . . . model A ...oh, you kid ...Cal- Poly al San Luis Obispo . . . ro be slock man. EDWARD BELTRAN lndian . . . likes smell of saw- dusl lwood shopl . . . looiball and 'rrack . . . B baskelball slar . . . physics and 'rrig . . . Moior Bugs . . . ihaf grin. . . backsiage . . . keen sense of humor. . . Chafley bound . . . engineering. J ill l l I, if RONALD SANDERS Coach . . . ioorbal l-li Y fra ck mosl To play loolball and col lecf rocks. . . Rifle Team freshman baseball . .. wanls lo be a carpenler . . . Leller mans Club live olclock shadow . . . Boys' Associalion . . . can 'rake a ribbing . . . going 'ro lvlounl San Anlonio Junior College. BEATRICE JOSEPHINE LOPEZ lilerary minded likes ro wrile and lalk money bags freshman class ireasurer Showboaf Bear sla warbler glee c u oa d s of am ihou lo be a nurse senorsra member of Spanish Cub... ,+e,G... . . . her goal, Chapman Col- lege . . . G'rls League . , . Drill Team pal iol. ROBERT LESTER JONES o likes +o preserve an inieresling scene by raking pic lures a beauhlul blond wavy hair medicine man To be a doclor lrack Fiend swell guy slr in lvl S A C Boys Assoc ahon

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,411 1460474 for the '43 fxpre A The whisTle sounded on ThaT dismal morn oT SepTember '44, The bell clanged, The conducTor gave his warning command. and The class oT I948 clambered aboard The '48 Express. Our engineer, Tommy STuber, aided by his aSSiSi6hi. RUTTT Myer, guided us Through TorTuous mounTain passes oT ridicule and away Trom yawning chasms OT helplessness and Tear, while The Tireman, Thelma Brooks, The swiTchman, Josephine Lopez. and The bralceman, BeTTy WurTz, remained on The alerT and lcepT The Train moving aT a sTeady pace. In The meanTime The conducTor, STella MonTes, collecTed The diplomas Trom all The passengers. ThaT nighT as The passengers were reTiring To Their berThs. The porTers, Miss Lochridge, Miss CarpenTer, Mr. Jones, Mr. Bell, and Mr. SmiTh, inTormed us ThaT Tor The duraTion oT The Trip each would have cerTain Taslcs To perTorm iT he wished Siandings Bewy Miller, vice-presidenflp Peggy STeyer. sfudenT +0 aspire +0 fhe Club Cars Whefe Temporarily resided The council represenfafiveg BeTTy WurTz, secreTary. Seafedz Nucl: arisTocraTs oT The Scholarship SocieTy. Several passengers oT Kelcll' P'es'de our group aTTained posiTions There. They were MargareT Broolcs, Shirley CoTTer, Lyn MacDonald, RuTh Myer, Peggy Sfeyer, Nelda ThOFSOh. and DOFOihG V60 Buslfirk- The POViers also menTioned The various acTiviTies aboard, such as Girl Reserve, 6.A.A., Junior Hi-Y and boys' sporTs. The group enTered enThusiasTically inTo These. We pGSSengerS had wendecl OUI' individual WBYS Trorn various secTions oT The globe, San Dimas, La Verne, and La Verne l-leighTs: buT, naTurally, The closeness oT our exisTenCe during The Trip enabled all QT Us To know each oTher inTimaTely and To become good Triends. l-laving 5ucce5sTully c0mpleTed The journey Through Freshmanland, The '48 Express began iTs even more perilous eXpediTiOn ir1TO Sophomoreland. The 'fdSl4S aboard PFOVGCT Too much Tor some and only Tour remained in The exclusive Scholarship SocieTy club cars. They were Lyn MacDonald. Pegg STeyer, MareTa LenTz, and Roy Wagner. Turning baclc To The beginning oT This venTure inTo Sophomoreiiand, new crewmen were hired. Roy Wagner Tilled The posiTion oT engineer and assisTing him was Barbara Powell, Thelma Brooks and BeTTy WurTz did such Tine jobs as Tireman and bralceman, respecTively, during This TirsT parT oT The Trip ThaT They reTained Those posiTions Tor The second lap. STella MonTes Tilled The posiTion oT swiTchman. The ConducTor was dispensed wiTh alTogeTher. Our porTers remained The same. BuT This was only The beginning, Very suddenly we Tound ThaT we were in The upper braclceTs, in oTher words, upper classmen or The junior division. The job oT engineering was Turned over To RoberT Rodriguez, and assisTing him was John Cullen. Thelma Broolcs handled boTh The posiTions oT Tireman and swiTchman, wiTh Mary BeTh GilleTTe as bralceman. The acTiviTies in The club car, even aT This high level, were much The same, wiTh The Tollowing members OT The Scholarship SocieTy: Roy Wagner, Lyn MacDonald, MareTa LenTz, Peggy STeyer, DoroTha Van Buslcirlc, Luana SmiTh, Nelda Thorson and PaTTi PiTTs. When we needed anyThing Tor our comTorT or were in need oT some suggesTions, we simply Turned To our helpTul porTers, Miss CarpenTer, Miss Lavigne, Mr. T-larper, Mr. Green, and Miss Lochridge. Because we were juniors, we were enTiTled To a liTTle exTra publiciTy, in The Torm oT sTrilcing royal blue sweaTers wiTh a maTching blue and whiTe emblem. Everyone envied us when we made our TirsT appearance in These sTunning biTs oT wearing apparel, and we really TelT ThaT we were near our ulTimaTe desTinaTion, For variaTion during This journey, we decided To puT on a play Tor The oTher classmen and Triends, and aTTer careTul rnediTaTion decided on a Three-acT comedy Don'T Talce My Penn SevenTeen sTudenTs arTici aTed in The la Y' 9 T3 F3 - wiTh our porTer, Miss Lavigne, direcTing us. lT was acclaimed a gre-aT success by all. Y Also on This Third lap oT The journey we indulged in anoTher big evenT. We enTerTained ourselves along wiTh visiTing passengers aboard called seniors, wiTh The unTorgeTTable Junior-Senior Prom. The Theme, Holland, was exTravaganTly carried ouT under The capable hands oT Passengers Mary BeTh GilleTTe, BeTTy WurTz, John Cullen, Lyn MacDonald, Roy Wagner, and Daryl BrandT. ShouTs oT yahoo-hooray-yippeee-and oTher such exclamaTions echoed Through every car oT The express as The engineer, RoberT Rodriguez, relaTed To us The news ThaT Seniorland was jusT ahead. IT was only a Tew minuTes laTer ThaT he solemnly passed on his highly esTeemed posiTion To Niclc Kelch, wiTh The oTher crewmen passing on Their posiTions in Turn. BeTTy WurTz became assisTanT engineer, BeTTy Miller, Tireman, Barbara Powell, swiTchman, and Peggy STeyer, bralceman, wiTh Miss Lochridge, Miss Oberle, Mr. STauTTacher, and Mr. Bell as porTers. Slowly The Train chugged up The lasT lap oT The journey. DiTch day was behind us as were also The junior-senior play and The Junior-Senior Prom. The club oTTicers and aThleTes had been in a Trenzied Turmoil oT acTiviTy all year. The senior rings, announcemenTs and so TorTh had all been ordered and preparaTions were now being made Tor ThaT momenTous occasion . . . graduaTion. NaTuraIly we were all looking Torward To The liTe aTTer high school-buT Then we were perhaps a TriTle TearTul oT whaT lay beyond and maybe jusT a liTTle sad in leaving The wonderTul, joyous Times behind.