Ione High School - Nugget Yearbook (Ione, CA)

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HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA lv ln the past year we have taken a great interest in our music regardless of the many disadvantages which have confronted us. With Miss Collett as leader, we have been able to make splendid progress. This is the first year there has been an orchestra in the High School. The personnel is as follows: Director-Miss Collett. Pianists-Esther Amick, Lucille Yager, Esther Prouty and Dixie Stewart. Violin-Viola Fairbank. Cornet-Allen Martin Saxaphone--Vernon Stoltz. Trombone-Kenneth Woolsey. Drums-Byron Prouty. At the several parties given at the High School the orchestra has pro- vided music for dancing. It need not be said that the success of the orchestra is due to our capable director, Miss Collett. DNIXIE STEWART l':igv S t , .J X? Q

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DRAMATICS POCAHONTAS The students of the High School presented an Operetta, named Poca- hontas, on December 22. Everyone took part in this either as principals or in the chorus work. Much time was spent in rehearsing. The Operetta was a change from what the High School has ever presented before. It was a real success and we feel we owe a great deal of the honor to Miss Collett, our instructor. SENIOR PLAY Nothing But The Truth , one of the most successful Senior plays the school has ever given, was presented by the graduating class of '23. It was necessary to ask two juniors to aid in the play. The question was, ls it possible to tell the absolute truth for twenty-four hours? It was, but it brought about a great confusion. The Cast was as follows: Robert Bennett ...............,.........v. ..... A llen Martin E. M. Ralston ..........,,............ ..... B yron Prouty Dick Donnelly .............. ...... H art Stewart Clarence Van Dusen ....... ............ K arl joses Bishop Doran .............. ....... L ouis Gebhardt Gwendolyn Ralston ...., ....... V elora Carpenter Mrs. E. M. Ralston ....... ......... P Oppy Cheney Ethel Clark .............. ........ E mily Fairbank Mable jackson ..,,.... ....................... A lice Gebhardt Sable jackson ...... ..............,............ L oreen Winter VELJORA CARPENTER PF -95 96 SOCIETY Freshmen Initiation took place on September l5. To say that we had a good time would be putting it mildly. We had a baker's dozen of Fresh- men to initiate and when our Juniors took the ceremonies into their capable hands we were sure of a successful outcome. The Freshmen spent the next day scouring their faces and recovering from the effects of the night before . A Mock Wedding was presented to the High School on October 29, by the girls Clee Club. Some of the girls made very classy gentlemen . It turned out very successfully and the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing. Refreshments were served at eleven-thirty. The Freshies entertained the upper classmen and members of the faculty by giving a Halloween Party on October 30. Everyone came dressed as small children of between ten and twelve. Games and dancing were en- joyed by all. Refreshments were served, after which everyone gathered around a large bonfire to tell ghost stories. A Quaker Party was given by' the juniors on November 25. All those in attendance came attired in Quaker costumes. All was carried out in Quaker style even to Beans and Vinegar. On December 22 the Operetta Pocahontas was given by the entire- High School at the Royal Theatre. It turned out to be quite a success. After EMILY FAIRBANK Page Fifteen the Operetta dancing was enjoyed.

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LITERARY THE LILY CLUB AT A BASKET BALL GAME The lone High School played a game of basketball with the ,lonesville High School two weeks ago, at lone. It was a very rough game and Jones- ville promised us a much rougher game when we gave them the return game at Jonesville. This just suited The lone High. Of course this is not real basketball but when a team thinks it can play rough we try to give them their money's worth. As a rule the Lily Club does not go with the basketball team to other towns but as we were guaranteed an excellent game and because the basketball team needed our support we decidd that we would go. Reverend Smith was opposed to going at first, but at our club majority wins, and he came over to our side at last. Everyone wore his best clothes. Miss Alice jones, fone who seems to know nearly everythingl was dressed in a lovely evening gown, and on her feet were small white slippers. We all thought she was wearing too much jewelry but she said that she would take the chance. It was a pleasure to be with her, she was so beautiful and lively. Oswald Jenkins who is just a lawyer looked very neat indeed in his dress suit. ln fact Oswald jenkins, and Mr. john Smith our politician were hard to tell apart since they were dressed so nearly alike. The Reverend Smith looked as if he were doing something that he knew was wrong. But he thought that he would try anything once. We were worried for awhile thinking that Miss Nancy Sanderson, a society belle, and Miss Ruth W'hite were not coming since they were so late. We had seats reserved for the Club so that we could be close together and compare notes on the game, as we wanted to get a good line on the players, during this game. At last the late ones arrived and we climbed into our high powered ma- chine and we were headed for Jonesville. We were in high spirits, as we al- ways are when we put aside business for pleasure. We had heard that the roads were in bad shape but never thought that they were as bad as they were. We had hardly gone a mile when our machine went off the road to let another machine pass, and in trying to start it again we found that it was stuck in deep mud. We piled rocks and boards in under the wheels and finally reached the solid road again but everyone was covered with mud. We had several mishaps of the same sort before we reached jones- ville but we didn't mind as we were all muddy from the first accident. The Reverend Smith had gotten the worst of it though, for he had tried to push the car from behind the wheel when it started spinning. We thought that we would have to dig him out of the mud to find him. just as we reached our seat in the hall the whistle blew and the game was on. lone piled up a score of eight points in the first two minutes of play. This showed that we had'the best team and that Jonesville did not have a chance when both teams played clean basketball. Then the fun commenced. The rooters from lone thought that we were out of luck as jonesville had it over us a little on the weight of the teams, but that didn't matter as we were much the faster of the two, and were in the best of condition. Before the half was over both the players of the teams and the spectators were growing very angry at one another because lone was winning and Jones- ville was losing. lf the whistle had not blown and ended the half there would have been a' regular gang-fight in a very few seconds. The ten minute in- termission helped to cool the crowd off. Nearly five minutes passed by before the fight between the spectators began. It was quite a fight because everyone who was able joined, and it Page Scvente-1-n