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

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Miss Maud Blanchard (Mrs. Curtis Black). Student at Redlands University. Banning, California. Mr. Walter Graf. Puente, California. Miss Frieda Iselin. Student at Pomona College. Banning, California. Miss Geneva Fountain. Ordway, Colorado. 1912 Mr. James Weinland. Student at Pomona College. Ban- ning, California. Mr. Kelly Reid. Student at Pomona College. Banning, California. Miss Ruth Reid. Student at Los Angeles Normal. Ban- ning, California. Miss Grace Makosky. Teacher. Mr. Harry Hield. Student at Pomona College. Rancher. Armada, California. 1913 Miss Emma Chisholm. Student at Los Angeles Normal. Los Angeles, California. Miss Olive Kalar. Student at Nazarene University, Pas- adena. Banning, California. 1914 Mr. Harold Fountain. Student at Pomona. Banning, California. Mr. William Westerfield. Student at Occidental. Ban- ning, California. Mr. Douglas Holeomb. Student at Occidental College. Banning, California. Mr. Albin Iselin. Student at Pomona College. Banning, California. Mr. William Weinland. Teamster. Banning, California. Miss Bernice Jones. Student at Riverside Business Col- lege. Banning, California. ==18=

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Miss Harriet King. Graduate Stanford University. Teacher at Pasadena High School. Banning, California. 1907 Miss Evelyn Kolb (Mrs. H. G. Holcomb). Banning, Cali- fornia. ; Miss Ruth Ellis. Librarian. Banning, California. 1908 Mr. Edwin Warren. Married. Rancher. Downey, Cal- ifornia. Miss Ethel Gilman. Graduate Los Angeles Normal. Teacher at San Bernardino. Banning, California. Miss Pearl Clark (Mrs. Fred Holeomb). Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia. Mr. James Fitzhugh. Married. Architect. Los Ange- les, California. 1909 Miss Lillian Reid. Graduate Los Angeles Normal. Teach- er in Beaumont, California. Miss Florence Prouty. Banning, California. Miss Lola Buttles (Mrs. Cyrus B. French). Student Riverside Business College. Banning, California. 1910 Mr. Robert Tudor. Student at University of Southern California. Employed by Consolidated Reservoir Power Company, Banning, California. Mr. G. F. Weinland. Graduate Pomona College. Prin- cipal of graded schools. Arizona. Miss Lela Warren (Mrs. Paine). Los Angeles, California. Miss Mayme Sweeters. Trained for nursing at Clara Bar- ton Hospital. Los Angeles, California. Miss Robina Innes. Student at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Miss Arnette McLean. Student at Tarkio, Mo. Miss Eva Young. Los Angeles, California. Miss Ina Kalar. Graduate San Bernardino Business College. Banning, California. 1911 Miss Blanche Devine. Student at Los Angeles Normal. e447

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LOOKING BACKWARD The Banning High School, when we delve into the rec- ords of its first years, appears to have ‘‘just erowed,”’ Topsy-like, in response to an urgent community need. The first reports show that before any classes had been grad- uated, the High School grades were simply continuations of the grammar grades, and were numbered in a similar manner, Thus we find that the class of ’99, the first class to receive diplomas from this High School, went through the fourth years’ term, not as first, second, third and fourth year pupils, but as members of the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. That was when school was being conducted in the three- room frame building on Murray Street, just across the ‘‘wash’? from the W. S. Hathaway residence. Prof. Paul G. Ward, the schoolmaster, beloved in the hearts and minds of those who were fortunate enough to come under his influence in those days, was the first High School principal. Miss Mildred Forsythe was the first assistant High School teacher, but she was not employed until 1897. The trustees during this period were Mr. C. A. Reid, Mrs. Ida T. Bird and Dr. J. C. King. A great deal of credit is due them for the commencement of the High School as well as the continuation of it. From its very first year the Banning High School has been accredited to California universities and colleges. Sue and Marian Bird, now Mrs. R. H. Coombs and Mrs. Frank Barbour, were the only members of the class of 1899. The graduation exercises that year were held in the hall upstairs in the brick building across from the Banning Hotel. These two graduates chose the colors for the High School—green and white. Three more classes were graduated from the little school house. In 1900 Frank G. Reid and Robert Foun- tain were the graduates. The tragic ending of the life of Robert Fountain, in 1905, when he was a Senior in the law department at Stanford, was a deep grief to the en- = 19=