Porterville Union High School - El Granito Yearbook (Porterville, CA)

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P SS that It moves Well I should thlnk so' In a second or two xt becomes a horse and r1der I'1S1Dg and fall 1ng r1s1ng and falllng sweepmg toward us nearer and nearer growmg more and more d1st1nct more and more sharply def1ned nearer and stlll nearer and the flutter of the hoofs comes famtly to the ear another lnstant and a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck a wave of the rlders hand but no reply and a man and horse burst past our exclted faces and go wmglng away 11ke a belated fragment of a storm' So sudden IS xt all and so llke a flash of unreal fancy that but for the flake of whlte foam left qu1ver1ng and perlshmg on a mall sack after the v1s1on had flashed by and dlsappeared we mlght have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all maybe The Pony Express, although deeply 1n debt m1ght eventually have been put on a paylng basls 1f the telegraph had not been lnvented and put 1nto use As It was, however, the telegraph greatly undermmed IIS usefulness and so, on October 7 1861 after slxteen months of SGFVICQ, the Pony Express was off1c1ally dlscontlnued Though extremely sholt hved as an 1nst1tut1on and unprofltable as a busmess venture the Pony Express has been descrlbed as the most lomantlc trans portatlon any cont1nent has ever known In th1s brlef resume of the hlstory and aCtlVlt16S of the Pony Express I have at tempted to clearly lllustrate those commend able qualltles such as fortltude, perslstence, and dependab1l1ty vxhlch were the chlef fac tors contrlbutmg to the brlef success of the Pony Expless, and whlch the sen1o1 class h1s exhlbted 1n IIS all too brlef passage through the Portervllle Un1on Hlgh School From out those years that every year grow stranger Brlghtest I thmk the fearless rlders gleam Who took then' part IH all that joyous danger To serve the human dream Who bore the mall by desert or by fountam Bravmg the savage and the tempest s wrath Across the plam across the mxdnxght mountam Takmg the lonely path The courage that was thelrs may t1me make stronger As now the new romance beglns lts reign And hlgh above the trall they take no longer Flashes the aeroplane' George Sterlmg +43 5 'l'+r . , . V . . . . - 1 V E W 1 W 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 H . . . 1 1 1 11 , . Y . ! ' 7 I c C . v 1 ' ' 7 7 I . K - 1 . U . . K . . H . 1 Y . . . Y Y . . - . . . ' l 2 U 1 1 1 1 1 H . . 1 - 1 1 1 1 U . . 1 1 11 . J M . -9 f'

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PERSONNEL