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

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SOCCER The freshman girls, this year, learned the technique of soccer under the combined directions of Mrs. Wfing and Miss Poole. In previous years the freshmen played happily along without fear of competition. This year they worked less happily. The sophomores chal- lenged them to a game and beat them. A return match was immediately arranged, the upper-classmen were again victorious but not in such a pronounced manner. Due to this experience, the All-Stars chosen were as follows: forwards, Adeline Tomasini, Aileen Breschini, Dorothy Matsushita, Evelyn Onoye, Dorothy Leary, halfbacks, Winifred Kincannon, Charlotte Mills, Cherie Reeser, fullbacks, Ruby May Handley, Marie Heer, goal guard, Loretta Rogers. SPEEDBALI. - Speedball-that major sport crowded into a minor amount of time -was one of the few games that all the girls played. The choosing of the All-Scar teams marked the close of the sport. The Junior-Senior All-Stars were the following girls: forwards, Juanita Burnette, Alice Kubota, Virginia Cavaner, june Abe, Toshi Nagano, halfbacks, Fern Adams, Anna Blomquist, Evelyn Errington, fullbacks, Arleen Hebbron, Zora Garrett, goal keeper, Betty Hamilton. The Sophomore All-Stars were forwards, Mary Cathy, Alice Wililiams, Yvonne Mullins, Ida Nagano, Eva Kubota, halfbacks, June Rhodes, Ruth Appleby, Annalee De Ford, fullbacks, Helen Marci, Kathryn Vosti, goalkeeper, Alma Moore. DANCING Dancing in the girls' physical education department is divided into three parts: folk, tap, and interpretive dancing. In folk dancing the girls do the old dances of France, Spain, England, and other European coun- tries. Costumes make this type of dancing especially colorful. Tap dancing depends almost entirely upon rhythm for its appeal. Consequently, the girls who take tap either must have a natural sense of rhythm, or must acquire it. Interpretive dancing is the most graceful of all. It teaches the girls how to be less awkward by showing them what to do with their hands and their feet. Interpretive dancing is the most valuable type. 540

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HOCKEY Here the embattled players stood And fired the balls around the field. It was hockey-time in Salinas, and the Junior and Senior girls were having a glorious time trying to injure and kill each other. Twenty- one girls fighting hard with feet, stick, and ball made the field a battle royal. Of course, the object of the game is not to kill but to win. However, these poor benighted girls considered violence to be the best way of winning both the game and a place on the All-Star eleven. It took the team captains over two weeks to pick the All-Star players. Even then there was just about a straw's difference between the first and second teams, and the second team knew it could beat the All-Stars if a challenge were accepted. That was hockey. The girls who disabled a sufficient number of other hockey players to win All-Star rating were Thelma Thomsen, Virginia Cavaner, Shirley Stevenson, Georgia Moifitt, Irma Gorda, Helen Neal, Eileen Hunt, Aloha Tisher, Gladys Nielson, Arleen Hebbron, and Betty Hamilton. BASKETBALL The juniors and seniors have played two-court basketball this year instead of the slower and less exciting three-court game. Since there was more space for each player to dance around in, there were fewer casualties and more action. For six weeks the gym resounded to the rush of feet on the floor, eager shouts, the squall of the referee's whistle, and that pulsating silence that comes when the ball hesitates on the edge of the basket. On to victory, or down to defeat with the hope for Victory next time! The final test for a basketball player was to see how much clothing she could start out with and how little she could finish with. Buttons, straps, buckles, and pins all proved faithless under strain. Only on cold days was a full uniform appreciated. Intense rivalry was shown in the class games and especially at the time when the two Junior-Senior All-Star Teams were chosen. Those who were awarded places of honor were forwards, Norma Hile, Helen Neal, Alice Kubota, guards, Evelyn Errington, Fern Adams, Gladys Nielson, forwards, Martha Hatton, Josephine Ledo, Juanita Burnetteg guards, June Abe, Toshi Nagano, Nell McDougall. 530

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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