San Ramon Valley High School - Kernel Yearbook (Danville, CA)

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y SENIOR GLASS OFFICERS President --------------------- Fred Brear f' Vice-President--- ----- ------ Betty Mauzy K Secretary ---- --- ----------- Robert Annis Advisors--- --- -- ----- Mrs. Meckfessel g Mr. Bisig 5 SENIOR GLASS HISTORY r Four years ago a large class of students in- vaded San Ramon Valley Union High School, to begin the process of receiving a higher education. We were rather bewildered at first, but soon got our bearings, and finished our first year with flying colors, after winning the Freshman Reception. iOf course the Juniors helped us a little.J As Sophomores we again took the cake at the Frosh Reception, this time combined with the Seniors. Our Soph Hop, the theme of which was an old fashioned barn dance, was quite a success. We actually made a few dollars ---- who ever heard of such a thing! We gave numerous hot dog and candy sales thereby increasing the size of our treasury. , In our third year the Junior Play nSkiddingn was presented to a very interested audience, and the proceeds helped us to put on a very nswankyn banquet for the Seniors of that year. We presented HJonesyW as our farewell play, and believe us when we say it was a howling suc- cess, and exceptionally well received. We know our Senior Banouet and Ball will be gala events. The Juniors of this year are very enterprising. Our four years are over, and some- times when we look back it seems just yesterday that we came to San Ramon, very green and very scared little Freshmen. These years have been the most pleasant ones of our school career, and we take with us, as we go, memories and friends that will never be forgotten.

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That was a long time ago. Jeannette Stone, she is Mrs. Bunce, now, and I went to the same little school. Our families and others hired Miss naura Cornwall in 1835 to pound the three Rfs into us. The Stones brought a pickle jar of syrup every day to spread on bread for lunchg I had my share. Jeannette Stone owne here with her parents in f54. Her fatherfs cousin sold them the large place he had bought from the Mexicans. The house was a rec- tangular adobe, old then, with a verandah on two sides? it seemed like Mexico itself with the blood- red pomegranates and century plants around you. Bat the ownership was disputed in the true early- Califernian manner, Manyfs the time when wefd be playing and hear voices in the shop and there would be the Vboiled shirtsu again, boiled shirts were the city men, and they meant that there had been another claim come up against Stoneis title Wefd all stumble through the house, years of fan: dangoing had left the redwood floor very uneven, crying The boiled shirts are herein mother would say resignedly Well, I have to go on wearing rags.n Course that bad, but I guess the Stones had or four times for that place. There for depression in those shirt fighting, though, the County Fair--how we and the May Day Picnic, the sour old bar-tender Then poor U guess we'll it wasnft to pay three was a reason days. It wasnft all boiled there was Cox's Grove, and looked forward to it-- and Pickle Frank. He was at the Alamo Hotel, and I donft wonder new days how he developed his temper for we pestered him most to death just to get him riled and have him carry on. And there were dances, and the caballeros, and Murietta, and the time the ox get mired and had its neck broken, and the earth- quake, but I guess IYve told you all you want to know about the Stone place.

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I 1 -V 3 'W R. . TO THE GRADUATING CLASS Now that you have reached the goal toward which you have been striving for the past four years, have you tried to test the value of your high school education? Has your education meant for you that you can sit alone and meditate upon the purpose of life? Has your education meant that you are now able to appreciate the privi- leges that have been yours as a result of the foresight and sacrifice of the previous gener- ations? Has your education made you realize that CHARACTER is the most important product that any education can give you? Has your education meant that your own evaluation of your success in life shall be based upon the degree to which you con- tribute to thehuman happiness in the world? If your education has meant these things to you, then those who have had the privilege and responsibility of helping you in your upward progress will feel that their efforts have not gone unrewarded.