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

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The old sycomores' leafy pattern contrasts vividly with the dean, contemporary line of the new Music building. The new principal, Mr. Stevens, unpacking new volumes revealing the re-orientation toward an old standby in the curriculum. Both these landmarks fit into The new landscape. Mr. Quinn (Elmer) long-time custodian, and the gym.

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 ■. ■'■Xt A never-changing thing; this, too. is port of the scenery. familiar LANDMARKS. . in the new landscape. The new look, but still the same old face. The traditional trappings are part and parcel of the terrain to be covered in the four years at Banning Union High. The co-ordinates wouldn't be complete without them. The first glimpse of those future vistas comes through these doors. The shape of victories.

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Principal Deweese Stevens, Superintendent E. B. Powell, and student Carol Nelson welcome his honor. Mayor John Raotz, heading a group of visiting citizens. Lighting technicians and sound-effects men, Chuck Reed and Steve Wages, exhibit a serious mien while awaiting their cues. ofCONTINENT Bruce Maier and Sandy Edmundson chart a pleasant course around the dance floor. The old familiar landscape contains the contours of the future, too; the rugged aspect, the high plateaus, the individual prominences . . . rough terrain and smooth going too. Perhaps the student council member is the future lady mayor; the Senior play stage-hands, tomor- row’s T.V. technicians; and to-day’s Home-coming Queen is a prospective Miss America. Mapping this territory is an old challenge to be met by the new explorers. Rosie Zavala exploring the creative construction.