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

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One dark, stormy night | awoke suddenly. | looked around to see what had awakened me. | saw nothing; thunder crashed, lightning flashed, then it was dark again. In the distance came the sound of jangling keys, scratching pens, shifting feet; a pale light shone in the window and a ghost with a ghastly green face that seemed to have a light behind it appeared on the sill, drifted toward me dragging a chain of events that clanked across the floor terrifyingly. In a low voice that sounded as if it came out of a tomb, he bade me go with him. | could not resist: he seized my helpless hand and adjusted wings to my heels and ears and away we went through the window. ‘Where are you taking me?”’ | faltered. ‘lam taking you, ALICE WILLIAMS, to view the successes of your class mates of B.U.H.S. to shame you that you have not kept in touch with them, to tantalize you with their doings. Be quiet! We are approaching our first destination.”’ We flew swiftly side by side until we were looking down upon a dense jungle. There | saw WESLEY BLACK exploring Africa, disguised as a pigmy. We went rapidly northward to France where we found CHARLES CRUNCLETON in a Trappist monastery. In Paris the ghost pointed out BARBARA FAY BROWN (Fay Fancy, her stage name), doing a fan dance in ‘““‘The CORAL MAY” night club (BAILIFF of course). At Oxford University we found MAX RUBRIGHT, the new bespectacled professor of Philosophy. From there the ghost took me a cross the Atlantic to New York. We went into a radio broadcasting station and saw MILLICENT CARTER, the highest paid professional giggler on the Nationa! Broadcasting staff. DORTHA SHIELDS, the New York ‘Book Beetle,”’ was reviewing ELIZABETH PAIGE’S new book, ‘‘Gone With the Breeze.” Then we flew slowly over Madison Square Garden, and | saw HARRY CALAVAN, world’s heavy-weight wrestling champion, winning again. From New York the ghost took me to Niagara Falls where Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES WEAVER (nee MARJORIE KOGER) were honeymooning before Charles went back to his job of accompanying CHRISTINE MOORE, the Prima Donna, on the kettle drums. Two professional Barrel Riders over Niagara Falls proved to be Mr. and Mrs. RALPH MURCHI- SON. Mrs. Murchison was formerly JOSEPHINE DUSEK. Ralph had finally found his dream house and they were giving up their profession and going home to it in a few days. Just as we were about to fly away, | was struck with great force by a newspaper [19]

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and looking down | caught a glimpse of MASON IUND who was chauffeured on the paper route by his faithful wife, formerly DOROTHY ISELIN. From here we went to a Canadian Mountie’s Post and saw RALPH TROUTT and GEORGE HALL in red coats, still trying to get their man. Next we went to a small town in Kansas where the ghost pointed out Miss DOROTHY MOORE, a hostess in the Grande Mirado Hotel. Swiftly he took me to Hollywood where many of my class had made their fame. We found BOB LONG and FAYE ROBINSON threatening to out- do Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; EDMOND TOLL, the new stand-in for King Kong; BEN ALLEN, famous for his brilliant screen adaptation of “The Boy Scout Hand Book;’? NATHAN CHERRY and MORRIN CLEMENS, about to ruin Stoopnagle and Budd with their super special extra peachy inventions; and MAR- JORIE COOMBS, Gracie Allen’s under-study, a type quite natural to her. In Los Angeles we saw FRANK ALBRIGHT, ELEANOR MOORE and ROSE GAUTIELLO fighting it out for the world’s champion typist title. Frank was ahead with a score of 25 words a minute, all mistakes. As we flew slowly over the city, we saw Mrs. Wesley Black (VIOLA MADIGAN) and her two lovely little girls. The ghost said that usually Viola went with Wes on his journeys but this time she decided to stay behind so that she could see the new musical comedy, ‘Shout, Baby, Shout,”’ star- ring HELEN GILMAN, for which HARRY and BILL RADUZINER wrote the song hits. At the University of Southern California we found DONALD LEWIS and LEAH BELLE RIFKIN leading the yells at a game in which DONALD REYES and JIMMIE HIGBEE were stars. BUDDY HOBBS was heading for San Pedro where he had just joined the Super-Horseman Department of the U. S. Navy. Up North at Stanford University the ghost pointed out ROGER MANWARING and said that he was the official date tryer-outer, elected by the student body after satisfactory demon- strations. He was trying one of his dates out at MARY ORTEGA’S place where she shows the town what a real Mexican restaurant is like. As we came home we saw LEWIS ROBERTSON, the first (and last) Republican Congressman from Cabazon. Then we saw DRUSILLA WILSON, Poet Laureate of Cathedral City. A frosty breeze broke the thread of our flight and | saw the long, lean finger, the flashing eyes, the wildly gesticulating figure of our ancient but honorable class teacher, THELMA HARVISON. | took a nose dive into my feather bed, seized the covers and shud- dered with joy that |, ALICE WILLIAMS, had again escaped that dreadful creature.