John Wesley North High School - Aurora Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Just the sound of his voice, the touch ot his hand, coos Bianca Lope during Im promplu ' As well as being perlormed at night. •Impromplu was shown for third and lourlh period English classes. During rehearsal for the spring musical. Julie Stewart takes a break to listen to instructions Stewart portrayed a showgirl actress engaged to a millionaire. Winifred and Tony, characters portrayed by Emily Heath and Scott Waller, show their true feelings for each other According to the actors, scenes such as these made acting worthwhile. Standing expectantly, housemaid Cathy Block along with chorus members Valecia Flynl. Jim Patterson, and Melissa Soria wait for rehearsal directions. theatre 5

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Theatre Students Stage Shows North was not a perfect sctiool. One of tfie drama depart- ment ' s problems was to get more people involved in tfie school productions. Solution: The one act plays and the spring musical. I want students involved in all facets of theatre, said drama teacher and play coordin- ator Michelle Ferguson. Student directed plays and student choreography for the musical made the year unique. The winter productions in- cluded the one acts, Impromp- tu , and The Lottery, which were student directed by f litch Woofer and John Polite, respec- tively. The Acting Lesson, the third one act, was directed by Ferguson. Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, a Vaudeville musical by George M. Cohan, featured students Jana Cudney and Syd Rice as choreographers; Jennifer Deal as student direc- tor, and Stephanie Gammon as stage manager. I really enjoyed theatre from the stage manager point of view, commented Gammon. The one act plays and the spring musical came together to involve more students than ever before in the theatre, bring- ing North one step closer to perfection. Waiting for his next cue, Danny Kronenfeld glances stage left as Allison Redloff and Robert Rocctni stand in tfie background. 4 stuclent life

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H Baseball As he practices his curve, Mike Garcia watches the ball into his catcher ' s mitt. Garcia pitched Norths first perfect game as the Huskies destroyed Perris, One-Two Combo Wins Twenty-one up. twenty-one down. It was tiistory in the mak- ing as Mike Garcia turned away every batter that he faced, recor- ing the first perfect ganne ever thrown by a North pitcher. With a balance of strong defense and outstanding pitching, the 8-0 vic- tory over Perris was perhaps the most obvious result of the team ' s effort. North ' s primary power came from the mound. With Scott Schanz and Garcia recording ERA ' S of .70 and .77, respective- ly, the Husky pitching staff established itself as one of the finest in the area. We had the best one-two combination in the league, commented Coach Stalder. Any manager would attest to the fact that the best pitching in the world wouldn ' t mean a thing unless his team was performing at the plate. North ' s team bat- ting average was a phenomenal .307. Ruben Ayala, whose clutch hit in the final game versus Ramona clinched the champion- ship, led the team in RBI ' s with twenty. It was their consistency, how- ever, which led them to capture yet another Ivy League cham- pionship. We worked out for about five hours every day, commented Ayala. That ' s more than some college teams prac- tice. I think that ' s why we pulled through to win. 1 Piaclicii ' S ScollS r M 41 •i 6 sports