Banning High School - San Gorgonian Yearbook (Banning, CA)

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ed by our fellow students, and ask for a place in all their hearts, saying nothing of the faculty under whom we were tutored and who so skilfully and so tactfully per- formed their duties and placed us where we now stand. 1B 105 “15) THE SCHOOL CLOCK I count the time for thousands, While others time idle away; I watch the school and the playgrounds, And never think of play. I see things never thought of, In the study hall at school; I see the children playing, And disobeying the rule. There are times I feel quite weary, But duty I will not shirk; Till my hands move slowly onward, And start the pupils to work. I am never a minute off duty, To whisper or be gay; Like the pupils who come to my school, To study, and not to play. If every one would be like me, And never stop duty to play; Their work would be praised by thousands, And glory would come their way. If you students wish to be prosperous, In school, as well as at work; Just go with steady motion, And never think to shirk.

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‘ Physics as defined by those who took it was ‘a most interesting study of the most impossible things under the most improbable cireumstances.’’? William and Esther entered its realm and they claim it to be a great brain producer. Therefore it is highly recommended to Freshies and Sophomores in particular. As I have said previously, we took fourth year English in the third year, so in the Senior year we had a chance to take third year English. My, but it was interesting ! Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Long’s English Litera- ture being the parts over which we labored so hard, and which we loved so well. I must not forget to make special mention of the Ger- man class composed of all our able members but one, who thought Spanish looked more promising and took it readily. Miss Boudinot started us in German in the Junior year and we can well assure you that when she stood up be- fore us and said the a b c’s we thought they were the queerest sounding things known to man. Then when we advanced a little and started learning our vocabularies, it began to get interesting, and es- pecially when Miss Boudinot would say ‘“Wiederholen Sie,’’? meaning repeat. In our estimation that word and the word ‘‘conjugation,’’ meaning conjugation, but pro- nounced so peculiarly, were always laughable to us. Then learning to write the German script was another feature which we fully enjoyed. ‘Reading stories and books came next, and the deeper we went into the work the more we enjoyed it. Al- though the work was difficult at times and required deep and careful study, we have lived through it all and will never regret it. The Seniors of today have set the example for the Se- niors of the coming generation by getting rings as their class emblem. Hereafter rings will continue to be popu- lar. As the class of 1915 with its five dear members slip slowly out into the world, we wish to be remember- 43=

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CLASS OF 1916 Bayard Ellis, (President), Loretta Ghriest, (Secretary), Paul Kalar, Marjorie Meissen Wilson R. Stone, Thelma Reche CLASS OF 1917 Frances Gilman, May Hargrave, James Hodges, Logan Holcomb, Agnes Mackey, Ruth Mullen, Virginia Vincent Charles Wing, Esther Wolf