Savanna High School - Savannan Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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25 Years I SAVANNA HIGH •SCHOOL 301 N. GILBERT ANAHEIM, CALIF. 92801 (714)-220-4262 VOL. XXVI

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I The rebel statue, was born from an idea and created by the hands of an artist. even from the beginning, when the statue first started to take the shape of a stick figure, an eagerness to build a tradition around it grew. radition Imagine this: You ' re standing in the Savanna quad, and you happen to glance towards the center. You look up . . . and there ' s Johnny Surfer? Yes, that ' s what might have happened had we been the Savanna Surfers, which was the second choice in a survey taken by students in 1963. But standing proud in our quad is our own Johnny Rebel, mascot of our Savanna Rebels. Just how did Johnny Rebel come to be? I In 1963, Savanna students and staff raised enough money to have a statue erected on the campus. A freelance artist from Disneyland, Howard Ball, was hired to build the statue. He followed designs from Josten ' s Jewelers ' drawings. When the statue was finally put into place, it was finished in bronze by a man who did bronzing at Knott ' s Berry Farm. This process was stopped due to cost in 1974. Since then, good ol ' Johnny Reb has been a numerous array of colors in- cluding red and blue. The poor guy has also been toilet-papered and wound up with streamers by enthusiastic Rebels during special events. So the next time you ' re walking through the quad, give Johnny a glance. And remember ... he could have been a surfer! In 1964 Johnny Rebel started out as a simple stick figure. 2 OPENING