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

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CLASS PROPHECY It was spring in Paris and I was strolling down the Rue de la Paix. Passing the tables of the Cafe de la Paix, I saw a flash, a gleam of red; I stopped, I stared incredulous; it wasn’t, yes, it was Wilmer Bullard—as jaunty, as debonair as he was yes, twenty years ago when he graduated from high school es. Wilmer told me that if one waited long enough, everyone one knew passed the cafe and that he had been sitting there for the last twenty years to prove the statement. As he spoke, I glanced up and saw two familiar figures approaching. They were Johnnie Jensen and Walt Andrews, who were as successful gigolos as Paris could boast. They paused to speak to two attractive women, Jean Fulford, now the Countess de Blank and Melba Kelso, who, Wilmer infcrmed me, was her state’s representative of the Amalgamated Club Women of America. Just as I was about to call them, everyone dashed to the curb and I dashed too. Coming down the street was a procession feting the world famous American flyer, Speed Donaldson, who had just completed the first stratosphere flight around the world. In the car behind the aviators rode the American Ambassador, Merle Shields, and Senator Patrick Thornton, who were in Paris for the twenty-second World Disarmament Conference. When the procession had passed, I turned back to speak to the Countess, but she was getting into her limousine with her two children and their nurse and tutor, Ruth Clark and Ralph Pickett, respectively. Just then a group of people wearing American Olympic team sweaters strolled up. They were Wilfred Daie and Damon Watson, coaches of the American Men’s team, Dana Earl, women’s coach, and Margaret Getchell, team dietician. We were worrying as to who would pay the checks when Edgar Thompson, Dodo Doll manufacturer, came up, and incidentally to the rescue. We were abcut to order another when John Seymour, professional soul-saver and prohibitionist, came into view, hurrying to meet George Hopper, international scout leader. The latter, when he appeared, was acccmpanied by Robert Golden, veteran croup‘er of the Casino in Mone Carlo, and Bob Olson, bouncer in the same establishment. Someone suggested going out to the Paris Exposition grounds. Here we found Raymond Thornton and Joel Cloud operating a merry-go-round. Riding on a camel was Doris Lynn, true to her philosophy of living for the moment, and on the giraffe beside her was Georgene Hicks, physical education teacher from Banning U. H. 5. on a vacation. Sitting in a chariot arguing in a friendly fashion, were Bob Chambers, world famous architect and Dan Cho’sser, successful engineer. We walked on to the main building where Francilla Abbot, cowgirl extraordinary, was giving an exhil custo was | and Rose visite maki Crew E'ste: were who Marg told | She ; toire I hac it shi wher Ther Partr ‘ I ren fetchi Our oO

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a wr RAY THORNTON RUTH TUCKER DAMON WATSON Pres. Senior Class °36 Basketball °35-°36 Football °3 3rd Vice-Pres. Student Council °36 WILMER BULLARD Regulators JOEL CLOUD Basketball Mer. °35-73 Tumbling Club Mer. °36 BOB GRAY BOB OLSON EDWINA PARTRIDGE JOHN JENSEN Football °34-°35 Basketball °35-°36 “Shooting Stars” Vice-Pres. Senior Class °35 DANFERD HAINES

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CLASS PROPHECY (CONTINUED) exhibition of fancy riding. There too we saw Gaucho Joe Rios, showing the customers how to crack whips. In a small building, Stuart Elder, a traveling salesman, was trying to sell masticated chewing gum, while Gerald Crew was serving hot dogs and hamburgers. Along the main street was found a dance hall in which Barbara Rose and Martha Jane Corwin were dance hostesses. In the last building we visited, the horticultural building, prize flowers were exhibited by Joe Henderson. I had to leave because I had an appointment at the Maison Pierce, the dress- making establishment of our old friend, Clifford Pierce. There I found Gera'dine Crew, his wife, acting as his secretary, Jean Davenhill, receptionist, and Elizabeth E'sterman, mannequin. There was to be a showing, and many important buyers were present, among them, Francis Dunn and Stanley Lewis. I also saw Mae Buss, who was selecting a trousseau for her eighteen year old daughter, Carla Cruncleton. Margaret Crossley, hotcha blues singer at the Folies Bergere, and Ruth Tucker, who told me that she had heen given, as the American model housewife, a trip to Paris. She asked me if I had heard that Agnes Stiasny was an instructress at the Conserva- toire de Musique or that Jean McCallum was librarian at the Archives Nationale. I had not, but at the time, was more interested in a new spring hat; so I asked her it she could recommend a good hat shop. She sent me to the Maison Marijuin, where I found June Lockhart and Marian Crawley. Manuel Salazar was the doorman. There I saw a face which seemed familiar. I was informed that she was Edwina Partridge, the prima ballerina of the Grand Opera As I walked in the direction of the Eiffel tower, I espied Roy McCallum, who I remembered had just married his efficient secretary, Doris Johnson. A very fetching cop in mustache and natty uniform escorted me across the boulevard: it was our old friend Bob Gray. Truly one sees the whole world in Paris.