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

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CLASS PROPHECY Banning, California, July 24, 1940. Miss Helen Corum, Head Medical Missionary, Zanzibar, Africa. Dear Helen: The graduation class of 1926 held a reunion on last Saturday. You were one of several who found it impossible to come, and so different members of us were delegated to write them and tell, in general, about the reunion. It was impossible for Betty to attend because of a women's high-jumping contest in France, in which she represented the United States. Fred Southworth was absent, too, due to the serious illness of his wife. Dick told that he had heard from Fred quite lately and that he was prospering as a “Real Silk Hosiery” agent, in New Orleans. Although the reunion was a whole day affair, there were only about one-half of the members present at the picnic at noon, which was held on the Banning City Park grounds. Among those, were Dick, who presided at the head of the table both at noon and at night. Even though the street cars come in from Morongo several times a day, Dick chose to come by donkey cart. He is a practicing physician, and still prefers his burros to his Airford because of their greater speed. Bernice Felts rode in with him to the reunion. She is superintendent of a series of beauty shops in Morongo Valley, and seems to be prospering. The McKinney girls were early arrivals at the affair. (By the way, Helen, they are not McKinney girls now.) Theil married short- ly after our graduation and is still enjoying her home, hubby and happiness. The man she married is quite wealthy and quite a prominent business man. Arol is quite different from Theil in every way. For almost seven years she starred at Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The man she married was a rancher in New Mexico, I can’t imagine why she ever picked on that type of per- son, can you? Morris Johnson was among those early. He stopped over on his way to Los Angeles, where he is heading a campaign for the sale of his lots in Death Valley. By the way, Helen, did you know that Death Valley is now quite a habitable place? Lights, water, gas, good roads and airplane service are quite a boost to the place, and Morris ig making himself quite a wealthy man by playing the part of a real estate agent there. It was near the middle of the afternoon when those of us who had already gathered, noticed two peculiar looking men alight from a street car. One man was much larger than the other. They Page Twelve

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CLASS HISTORY It was four years ago that we climbed the stairs of B. U. H. S. and started to ascend the ladder of education. Four years, and now we are ready to go down the trail of life, better fitted for our work. We were a merry group of Freshmen, numbering twenty-eight, the largest class to enter the school. The first event was the kid party, and then a get-together wienie bake of our own. We also en- tertained the Student Body with a picnic at the close of the year. The next year, as Sophomores, we were still the most numerous. Miss Reynolds guided us over the rough places with kind words and a helping hand. This year we entertained with a Hallowe’en party, with booths where one might meet fortune tellers, tricksters, and other performers. Our boys and girls were prominent on the ball teams. Our booth at the carnival was very successful, and the queen q was a Sophomore. With this record behind us, we became Juniors. The Junior class was prominent in High School life. We were rep- resented on the teams and in all Student Body activities. A Junior was sure to be found among the cast of the plays. Near the close of the year we gave a banquet to the Senior class. And now we are Seniors! The largest class to graduate from B. U. H. 8. Seniors participated in the events of the athletic field, tennis, basketball, baseball and track. A number of Seniors are members of the C. S. F., and four will be life members. We chose, as the Senior play, that masterpiece, “Seventeen.” It was given to a capacity audience two nights. The climax of the four years is the publication of “Dos Picos.” Taken, all in all, as we look back over the past four years, we see “SUCCESS” written in capital letters. During those four years some of our class-mates have left us, others have entered—but the class that started their career in °22 still remain intact. And the friends we have made will remain friends, for they became such in 1a 1), 18h Si Wy Now we must make room for other classes, and to those classes, we of 1926, wish bon voyage! —E. P. ’26. Page Eleven

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came walking directly toward our group, but not one of us recog- nized either of them until they were quite close. The little man pulled off his glasses—he was Charles Deweese. The other grinned —he was Robert Jones. During the conversation of the next few minutes we learned that Charles was engaged as a biological in- structor at Pomona College, and that Robert was a criminal lawyer at Phoenix, Arizona. It was still early in the evening when Sybil joined our crowd. In answer to our many questions she told us that she was a nurse in a Children’s Hospital in Boston. She had come west to attend a nurses’ conference which was to be held in Los Angeles. Sybil was so gentle and considerate and seemed to be so enthused in her work that we all felt sure that she was a success in it. Sybil told us that she had seen Bernice Wood while she was on her way to the park and so we were expecting Bernice when she arrived. We knew that Bernice had taken over the work of Prudence Penny for the Los Angeles Examiner, and through her articles in the paper most of us were familiar with the work she was doing, and so were more interested in what she told us about Edith Hessel. A few days before while she was on a trip in the northern part of the state, she had stopped into Montgomery Ward Co. store to purchase some articles and had discovered Edith Hessel as the head floor walker. Edith had been a mannequin in the store for some time but had lately been transferred to the other kind of work. Lolin, Tom, Katherine, and Leland arrived at the same time, having come to Banning on the evening train. You can well imag- ine the tumult that followed upon the arrival of these four at one time. In fact, the discussion became so disconnected that it was well in place for Dick to call the “class’’ to order so that all might hear what these four had to say for themselves. Lolin said that for several years she had been a physical education director in various grammar schools in Indiana. She was very muscular and exceeding- ly active, and so far as we could see there was no reason why she should not make good in this work. Next Tom told us that his job was supporting a family and that just exactly the kind of work he did depended upon the humor of his wife. Tom did not look hen- pecked, from which we gather the idea he had made quite an obe- dient husband. Katherine has just recently taken over the propri- etorship of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at Owl. It doesn’t seem pos- sible that Owl would be the most prominent suburb of Banning. You remember it was hardly anything when we were there. Leland told us that soon after his graduation from High School he became very interested in the wonder of nuxated iron. In fact, he had be- come so interested that he accepted a position as salesman for it. Laland looked healthy. There was certainly nothing wrong with his liver. It was almost time for the banquet and so Dick suggested that we adjourn and meet again later. We did, and the biggest surprise Page Thirteen