Salinas Junior College - La Reata Yearbook (Salinas, CA)

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Jo CO Po EO Here they come! Here they come! Our junior College Girls- But it's not to a party or a dance this time. They are going out to the hockey field, the speedball field, the soccer field. In other words it is P. E. period for the junior college girls. They had to swallow all sorts of rules and regulations on how and when to do what, before they played these games. Now, however, they are going cheerfully out to kill for be killedb with h o c k e y - s tic k s, feet, and hands. A great many of the girls could have qualified for All-American teams had there been some for girls, at the end of that strenuous season of hockey, speedball, and soccer. Then ensued a period of four weeks during which our junior college Amazons could play any game they wished. Archery, tennis, and basketball proved to be the favorites. In archery the girls gained all kinds of blisters and learned how to shoot fairly straight. Tennis was hard on feet tired with dancing, but it was no end of fun. Basketball was excitement, thrills, and work. The second semester the junior college girls went in for folk dancing. The girls' gym was transformed seventh and eighth periods. Pickaninnies, rheumatic old gentlemen, droopy old ladies, cute little boys, real circus clowns, Dutch boys and girls, and all the characters one meets at fancy-dress parties danced together as the greatest friends. The reason? These strange characters were only the junior college girls metamorphosed into the queer characters mentioned. What fun they seemed to have! Such dances as Topsy, Eliza Jane, The Old Man, Billy Magee, The Windmill, Yankee Doodle, and clown dances were learned by the girls. This folk dancing was intended to give training in quickness of movement and in relaxation of muscles to the dancers. Perhaps it did, but it also gave plenty of training for the muscles used in laughing. Imagine seeing a stately junior college girl going through the antics of Topsey! A year of amusement and laughter-that was junior college girls, gym. Thanks to Mrs. Ruth Wing, instructor, both the games and the folk dancing were interesting. Here's to next year and the years after it! 056 V

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TENNIS Tennis has become one of the outstanding sports, interest having been increased by the construction of four new tennis courts. Mrs. Ruth Wing was the instructor for all the girls. Foundation strokes Were taught in the handball courts, where wild serves and drives could generally be counted on to remain in their bounds. When some degree of skill was obtained, the students were turned loose on the courts. Many of them developed very able games. Some of the outstanding tennis players were Josephine Ledo, Jane Hughes, Nancy Hughes, Gladys Onoye, June Smith, Juanita Burnette, June Rhodes, Aloha Tisher, Betty Griffin, and Barbara Tracy. VOLLEYBALL The Junior-Senior physical education classes trained for several weeks on the technique of volleyball. Learning to use both hands in hitting the ball, to let it go if the opponents struck it out of bounds, and to follow it up even after one's team had hit it out occupied all the classes. The games were lively, and very seldom one-sided. In the last two weeks of volleyball an after-school tournament was held in which fifty-four girls competed. They constituted six teams with nine players on each team. Among the best players were Fern Adams, Arlene Hebbron, Olga Petersen, Ether Jacobsen, Juanita Burnette, Pearl Haver, Mary Hirsch, Josephine Ledo, and Alice Kubota. TLIMBLING I fa' down and go boom. Anybody who comes out with such a statement in April must be a ,member of the tumbling team. Only tumblers, .amateur or otherwise, have the privilege of making such remarks. . Fern Adams has been the captain of this year's team. Helping her by A caring for the tumbling equipment were the two managers, Evelyn Errington and Patria Mixon, and their other assistant, Mary Lee. Tumbling was held all the month of April. .At the season's close the annual program of the High School Student Body, and for the ex- hibit during Public Schools Week. 550

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