Etna Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Etna, CA)

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EIC: GRADE FlRST ROW: Manuel Gomes, Alden Ayres, Dion Ortiz, Eddie Smith, Lena Murphy, Carol Roft, Gloria Miller, Judy Parker, Daniel DeFaria. Oscar Munson, Charles Munson, Carolyn Martin, Virginia Bullinger, THIRD ROW: Keith Kays, Robert Neathamer, Alex Roberts, Delbert Leona Allen. SECOND ROW: Mr. Johnson, Charles Lincoln, Bobbie Franklin, Billie Fifer, Billie Munson, Larry Johnson, Sharon Young, King, Eddie Martin, Eddie Whitmore, Orlan Kopf, Mary Ann Parker, Kathy Chappel, Kathy Voight. Ju 1011 HIGH BA D FIRST ROW: Dennis Durret, Eddie Smith, Bobbie King, Alden Ayres, SECOND ROW: Carolyn Martin, Eddie Martin, Jimmy Maplesden, Fred Cooke, Ronnie Buck, Dick Nieman, Bill Lampert. Larry Johnson, Tommy Martin, Nancy Mathews, Chuck Clay. This page sponsored by: COOLEY AND POLLARD Yreka, California

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SECOND PLACE ESSAY The Adventures of Little Luby-A Reminiscence Little Luby was as real to me as any member of my family, and she was treated like a member. A place was set for her at the table and anything that I didn't want that was on my plate, I put on Little Luby's plate-saying, I don't like this, but Little Luby does. So, Little Luby grew to be strong and healthy. Since my three older sisters were always at school, Little Luby was my constant playmate. In the spring- time, our favorite play place was up on the hill back of my house. There, in a clearing of the chaparral and manzanita bushes, we had made ourselves a play house. Our stove consisted of an old roaster pan set in among some rocks to make an oven, the rocks serving as the burners. After raiding my mother's cup- boards and the iunk pile, we secured some tin cups, spoons, a kettle, and an old coffee pot which com- pleted our kitchen furnishings. Large rocks took the place of chairs, and the doors and windows were en- tirely imaginary. A small ditch was Iocated about twenty feet from our house and this was used as our well. Any springy, sun-shiny day, you could find us making our way to our house, a picnic lunch in one hand and a doll or two in the other. We were always sad when summer came, and we had to leave our house, because of a family of rattlesnakes that lived nearby. Although the Chaparral and manzanita bushes have grown up around our house, the stove is still there and the tin cups are hanging on the bushes where they were hung thirteen years ago. During the summer, Little Luby and I amused our- selves by playing in the sprinkler or fishing pretty rocks out of the ditch that runs through our yard. 32 Another favorite pastime was playing restaurant on the front porch, using poppy seeds for coffee and honeysuckle berries for oranges. On the days that Little Luby didn't come to my restaurant, l would call her on the telephone and say, Do you know sugar is rationed? Coffee is rationed, too. And Little Luby would say, No, I didn't know. And I would say, Well, it is! and hang up, feeling very pleased that I knew something that Little Luby did not! Of course, I didn't know what the word rationed meant, but that didn't bother me! Whenever my family went for a ride, Little Luby always went with us. I would see out of the car win- dow but Little Luby couldn't and she cried almost all the time we were riding. ln the fall, we could be found climbing apple trees lin order to get the biggest and best applesi or running and falling in the piles of leaves we had raked up on the lawn. Of course, when winter came and the snow began to fall, we were in our glory. We would don our snow suits, grab the sled land any of the cats who were brave enough to go with usl, and head for the Green HilI behind the barn where we would spend a day full of wonder and excitement, making snowmen and taking spills off the sled. We usually returned home soaked to the bone but rosy-cheeked and happy. One day I came home alone, and without batting an eyelash, I said to my mother, Little Luby fell off the sled and got kilIed. I went off to play and Little Luby was never men- tioned again. You see, Little Luby was my imaginary playmate!-Nadine Smith, Senior

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SEVE GRADE Ex 'll' FIRST ROW: Renee Roberts, Richard Neimer, Fred Cooke, Dennis Floyd, Billie Lampert. THIRD ROW: Tommy Martin, Lee Mullin Durret, Willie Munson, Gary Franklin, Larry Wells, Dick Nieman. Magdalene Murphy, Linda Bogue, Patsy Roberts, Nancy Mathews SECOND ROW: Mrs. Smith, Ronnie Buck, Dorris Jones, Joe Snapp, Chuck Clay, Jimmy Maplesden. Jerry Moak, Donald Czerwinski, Bion Onarheim, Lloyd Burton, Gary BUS DRIVERS: Ed Preston, Bob Johnson, Ruth Gepford, Mr. Morgen, Lester Carlson.