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

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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY IMMIGRATION The average person, when he thinks of immigrants at all, thinks, I am afraid, of something rather comical. He thinks of bundles— funny, picturesque bundles of every shape and size and color. With this picture in mind, we see the class of 1923 immigrating to this new land called High School. We see Pauline Goff carrying her bundle of fragrant hot-dogs and onions, Robert Coombs with his bundle of arguing matter, and Pearl Hansen with her bundle of sarcasm. There were thirty of these green, odd, moving bundles. We aliens not acquainted with High School customs, were welcomed with a “Kid Party,” and at the end of the evening we were consid- ered full-fledged citizens of High School Land. We now organized, electing Kenneth Guild, president; Rea Niel- son, vice-president; Adger Cothran, secretary and treasurer, and Miss Justine Conrey assumed the leadership of our ship of destiny. As our brains developed we passed into what is known as Sopho- more land, with Mr. C. J. Boyington as our able pilot. With the port of Success in view we traveled to Junior Land, where we were considered upper-classmen, and much better repre- sented in all school activities. Again we reorganized, electing Ad- ger Cothran, president; Evelyn Walch, vice-president; Edwin Hem- merling, secretary and treasurer, with Miss Pray aiding the crew. Our class has always been well represented in athletics, foren- sics, scholarship, debating, operetta and other school affairs. And now as an ending of a successful year, we plan to give the Seniors a jolly farewell as they embark on the good ship Success for their journey on the great sea of life. E. E. W., ’27. Page Seventeen

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I, Theodore Reeves, do hereby bequeath my “mash” with Miss Suzan A. Shy dealer to Henry Hemmerling. I, Sybil Thomason, do hereby give my chewing gum to Miss Marian Chevrolet. I, Choppy Johnson, do hereby will my wonderful basso profundo and yodel to Quinten Johnson, to keep it in the same name. I, Martha Mixsell, do hereby will my agreeable disposition to Mr. Horatius W. Moore. I, Thomas Pierce, do hereby give my good looks to Ralph Marvin. I, Tiny Sullivan, do hereby will my gentle voice to Fat Hauver- man. I, Katherine Richardson, do hereby give my long tresses to Patricia Cody. I, Theil McKinney, do hereby bequeath my scraps on the bus to Florence Furgeson. I, Leland Bickham, do hereby will my bashfulness to Peter Hansen. I, Edith Hessel, do hereby give my quietness to effervescent Frank Henderson. ; I, Arol McKinney, do hereby bequeath my dimpled cheeks to Bill Leonesio. Bill will look so cunning. I, Bernice Wood, do hereby will my boyishness to Elsa Hunter. It would improve her ways. We hereby nominate and appoint Thaddeus Arlington Purcell as sole executor to this our last will and testament. We have hereunto set our seal on this, the eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord 1926. RICHARD BRAMKAMP, BERNICE FELTS, JACK STRUVE, Attorneys for Testator. The above instrument was signed by the attorneys for the Test- ator, The Class of 1926, in our presence, and said attorneys, in our presence, declared same to be the Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1926 represented by them, and we, at their request and in their presence and in the presence of each other, hereunto sign our names as witnesses to the execution of above Last Will and Testa- ment of the Class of 1926. IVAN J. CAREY, CHARMAN CRITTENDEN DAY, GEORGE C. POPE. Page Sixteen

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CLASS OF ’28 In the year of 1924 a group of about 32 green, giggling children entered the ground floor of the building of High School Education and were led, by the initiation at the kid party, to the Hlevator of Progress, and ascended slowly, but surely, by hard studying and participation in school activities, such as dramatics, sports, Forensic and music, to the Sophomore department, where again they began climbing, studying, aiding the teams and plays, if only by their pat- ronization, performing a stunt at the box social, and enjoying a wienie bake given by the class. Now, at last, they have almost reached the third floor, of the Juniors, and are working steadily toward Senior Tower. DFP andi. HH. 28: Richard Hansen, president. William Leonesio, vice-president. Eugena Butler, secretary. Howard Trudeau, treasurer. Louise Bickham, Bedia Nickles, Floy Hodges, Mildred Neel, Harold Purpus, Winifred Shaw, Merril Warren, Dorothy Dowling, Orville Zitlau, Nellie Childers, Vivian Hawley, Fern Murphy, Dor- othy Page, J. C. Purpus, Donald Urton, Lyle Rutherford, Mary Heyer, Alice Elder, Henrietta Dietrich, Russell Hewitt, Marjorie Neel, Marcella Pownall, Nell Louise Roach, Mildred Wagoner, Harl Smith, Florence Furgeson, Frank Henderson. Page Highteen