Ramona High School - El Ano Yearbook (Ramona, CA)

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Senior Class Pat Williams Fuhrman Claw Officer 1. 2, 3 Chapter Sweetheart 2 Girls League 1, 2, 3 ASB Officer 3 Camera Shy Beth Atkins

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Senior Class Ernie Trumper Class Officer 1, 2. 3 lettermen's Club 1. 2, 3. 4 Football, Best Back 1, 2. 3, 4 Basketball, Most Valuable 2, 3, 4 Rancho Vallecito 4 AIILeagde Football 3, 4 Charles Tozer Football 1, 2, 3, 4 Basketball 1, 2, 3. 4 Track 1. 2. 3, 4 Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4 Lettermen's Club President 4 Paul Weldon Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 Track 2. 3, 4 lettermen's Club 2. 3, 4 FFA 3, 4 Baseball 2, 4 Albert William Toettcher FFA Officer 3. 4 FFA 1. 2, 3, 4 Foobtall 1, 2. 3, 4 Basketball 1, 2 Baseball 2, 3. 4 Lettermen's Club 2, 3, 4 Larry Upson Basketball 3, 4 FFA 1, 2, 3, 4

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It all began in the good ole days of the first grade —the fall of '43. It was almost the downfall of the school. At the beginning of the term, such rowdies as Ernie Ernst Trumper, John Darrough, Chuck Tozer, Mitzie Stephen, Alice Johnston, Eddie Bern- hard, Jim Rot Teague, Pat Williams (Fuhrman now), Paul Weldie Weldon and many more who are now not with us were in the class. Started on the long and illustrious road to knowledge were we! From the first to the fifth grades we picked up most of the members of our present class. We got such good boys as Paul Panch Flickinger in the third, Larry Bookworm Romine and Ron Bug Berghouse in the fourth and Dave and Lefty Farmer in the fifth grade. Mary Lou Stansbury arrived in the second grade to add to our jolly group. In these early years of our career, we were pretty hard to keep in check. There are many of us who will remember the painful and frightful trips to the office of our principal. But not all the time was spent in the office. Many can remember the adven- turous excursions to the forts we had along the ditch. When the teachers finally ran us out of there, we could always get in a fist fight (there was at least one a day), shoot a game of marbles, or get in a good old rock fight. As to punishment, the principal had many an idea for that. One of his better ideas was to paint a little block dot on the side of the old 1888 cafeteria, and we spent many hours throwing at this little round orb of black. We threw till we hit it five times. Many of us spent the whole day there. For further excitement there was always the Junior Patrol; and here we, the boys .of the present Senior Class, learned the rules of law and order that patterned our lives from there op. In the seventh and eighth grades we acquired many new members such as Kent Skip Roby, Jessie Andrade, John Martinez, Bill Toettcher, Bob Colerick, Charlene Huston, Jane Robertson and Bob Dame. With this new blood and the knowledge that we old times had from the past, we settled down to earnest study. During these years we began to acquire the grace, charm, and intellectual bearing that was to be our characteristic mark all through high school. With our graduation into high school, we lost a little ground, but under the great staff of teachers we soon rose to the top. John Ayre, Beth Atkins, Larry Upson, Nance Stevenson and Ron Schow joined us in the Freshman year. In the Sophomore year Art Thomsen, Carol and Dave Cowley, Barbara Jones, Kathy Patton and Carolyn Wells were aded to the class list. More newcomers in the Junior year—Larry Clyde, Bob Guernsey, Lou Ann Benton, and Jim Blakeley as well as new Seniors—Melinda Maple and Gary Meier—brought our group to the present total of thirty-seven. During our stay in high school, we were destined to leave many records for our followers. It was main- ly the members of the senior class who brought Ramona its first Football championship in seventeen years. We were the dominating class in the other sports also. It was the senior class who got the Foot- ball Lights project under way. Yes, looking back now, we really had it! It will be a long time before they top our record here at Ramona. But as we leave these hollowed halls of peaceful study, we wish to offer our thanks to all the great teachers who stood beside us during the thick and thin of the battle for knowledge. Thanks a million times over. We will always remember you.