Pacific High School - Pacificana Yearbook (San Bernardino, CA)

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i4 --11 Q li ..a Published by the Pacificana Staff Pacific High School San Bernardino, California Volume IV 1956-57 Editor .......... Teddy McBee Advisor. . . . . .Ralph Brady ' v K . .1-.-1 1 .1- -11- v 1:-ACIF1 f

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