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

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over their school days they often had regrets over leaving. One fine June evening on the beautiful lawn surrounding the building where they had toiled for the past four years, they received their diplomas and their High School days were over.” Reading this history brought back pleasant memories to me for I was a member of the Class of ’20. My thoughts turned to athletics and I was soon going over our hard fought battles, our victories and defeats. I was carried back to my boyhood days. Who were my classmates? Yes—There were four Marians, Marian Moojen, Marian Urton, Marian Gilman, and Marion But- ler who spelled his name with an 0. Two Jays, Jay Nichols and Jay Hargrave, made six. The others were Ethel White, Lucile Ludwig, Leonard Backus and Harold Ellis. JAY HARGRAVE, ’20. SCHOOL DAYS Me work is all too complicated: Me Latin never is translated; Me verbs are never conjugated: Then me D’s are duplicated. Me mind is never concentrated; At times me feels intoxicated, And all me days are variegated; Since all me friend's have graduated. So me thinks, me quit. Ex. PAGE ELEVEN

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@ CLASS HISTORY N the year 1999 as I was looking through some of my old keep- I sakes I happened to pick up a little book entitled “La Re- vista” edited by the Banning Union High School in 1920. 1 was interested at once and looking through the Annual I soon found the history of the class of ’20 and this is what I read, ‘One morning in 1916 thirteen shy little boys thirsting for greater knowledge knocked at the gate of learning and were admitted. These little boys and girls were green as green could be and un- certain what to do but secretly a little proud that they were High school students. They were not left in doubt long for soon they were laboring under the directions of the faculty acquiring their long sought knowledge in leaps and bounds. As the year wore on the class was joined by a new student, but one of their own members, now tired of the search for knowledge, left them. This left the number still a baker’s dozen. With one new member, ’20 started on its Sophomore career with none of the greenness it so plainly showed the year before, This class was proud of being the largest in school and ‘showed its importance by ruling the Freshmen with a strong arm and participating in athletics and interscholastic events. leven jolly students began their Junior year, much interest- ed in athletics and a good time. As proof of this, four of our worthy members: Marian Urton, Marian Gilman, Leonard Backus and Harold Ellis, went to Beaumont and won the tennis pennant for the school. As Juniors this class gave some wonder- ful parties, ending their entertaining by giving a real banquet to the Senior class. So wonderful a time did the Juniors have that year that they were not overly glad when school wars out. Ten all important and dignified Seniors began their last year in High School, very glad that they would soon finish their course, The Senior year of these little Freshmen that entered High School in 1916 was sprinkled with gaiety. Somehow they had changed in the past four years. Their minds now turned to the more serious matters of getting their credits and writing orations for the Forensic contest. As the year advanced they were spurred on by thought of new worlds to conquer and yet thinking back PAGE TEN

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