Woodland High School - Ilex Yearbook (Woodland, CA)

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Z6 THE ILEX Freshman Class President ...,,,.,...,...,,,,...,,...,,,.,, .A.,,,.,,,,, G ENE GRAY Vice President ...... ...s,. B ERNICE BAIRD Secretary ,....... ...,,,......,. S TELLA I-IOLT Treasurer ..... .,..... E OBERT Di-:NHARDT Freshman Class History In the early years of the new century the Freshmen got their start and now are going strong. Although the Seniors wouldn't believe we had even started till we tied for first place in the annual llex show ticket sale contest, they now believe that the fight- ing spirit of 30 is no bluff. Due to this fighting spirit the class has been well represented in all fields oi athletics-girls' sports as well as boys'. Even if we did not make an outstanding show- ing the spirit wasthere and a good start for next year acquired. The class of l930 is particularly noted for its lively class meetings. At a meet- ing held for the purpose, we elected our officers, selecting Gene Grey as President, Stella Holt as Secretary, Bernice Baird as Vice President and Robert Dunhart as Treasurer. Our President, Gene Grey, proved to be an excellent and capable leader of the largest class in school, the class numbering one hundred and thirty-three students. - Our scholarship record, although it has not been excellent, has been fairly good on an average, which goes to show that by the time we are Sophomores and wiser to the world and its ways, we will not be following an example but setting one. Thus we stand at the end of the school year. We have reached but one of the milestones of achievement toward the end of our High School career. We have made a good beginning which will help us, to have a much better finish. As we have found living through this school year successful as well as interesting- so may the class of l930 always find the most interesting thing in life. So may they be interested in living with their class, with their school, and with their ideals of both. We jolly little Freshman class, Are up to all our tricks, We'll be the Grads of '30, yes, We Frosh of '26.

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THE ILEX 25 Sophomore Class President ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.4, ,.,,,...... E DGAR STETSON Vice President ,,..,,.. ,.......... J EAN LAURENCE Secretary ,,,,,,,.,,, ,.,.,. C HARLOTTE HOWARD Treasurer U ,..,.. ,,,... .....,. W A RREN MORRIS CLASS COLORS Purple and Cold 014 nnual Tarty The Sophomore Dance which was given March l9, was the second Class Party of the year. The gymnasium was appropriately decorated in St. Patrick colors. Green and orange panels were hung on the walls with Shamrocks between them. The class numerals 29 were of purple with a background of gold. These were at one end of the gym. During the evening an excellent program was given: A piano solo by Harold Call: Muriel Cummings and Evelyn Kern gave an Irish dance. and a violin solo, Road to Mandalay, was played by Emmett Pugh. The rest of the evening was spent in dancing. A favor dance, shamrocks as favors, was one of the main events of the evening. Refreshments of punch and cookies were served during the evening. ATHLETICS The Sophomore Class boasts of several members on the Football team. Dudley Stephens was the most outstanding fullback of the year. ln lnterclass Basketball the Sophomores had very few experienced players and in the games they went pluckily down to defeat before the upper classmen. The mighty Seniors went down to defeat before the Sophomore baseball team. The score was 8 to 6 in the Sophs' favor. The following week the Juniors overcame our team and captured the interclass baseball title. At the Sacramento track meet the Sophomores had several representatives. Stephens took first place in the discuss throw. W. Diggs in the l00-yard dash. Although the rest did not gain a first place, several of them took second and third places in the meet. ' x HONOR ROLLS The Sophomores have been outstanding the entire year in scholarship, by having more members of their class on the A and B honor rolls than any other class. Warren Morris has headed the honor roll since the first of the year, and has kept his place throughout the term. We hope that he will remain such throughout his High School terms and wish him the best of luck. The Sophomores wish to give their best wishes to -their Class Advisors and thank them for their kind attention throughout the school term.

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THE ILEX 27 The Lure of the Old Southwest No, Sir-ee! I'm not going to Arizona and New Mexico again! Hottest place you ever saw and nothing there but just rocks and Injunsf' To the visitor who travels through, that is allg to the man who really sees, it is a land of exotic appealg almost a Land of Make-believe, taken from pages of an old Spanish fairy tale. Only here do we find Grand Canyons: here are volcanic cinder conesg here do people live in Spanish style adobe houses, and here do we find the Red man as he exists today. This is the only country in the world where the Indian is at homey at home as he has been for thousands of years. His adobe communal houses are made in the same old wayg his council chambers still hold the sacred fire, and his rugs and pottery are fashioned as they were when Cortez coveted them. The country everywhere is dotted with tiny Indian settlements and villages in their little pueblos, and without doubt, one of the most interesting of them all is Acoma, where I went to see the Corn Dance, a religious festival held in celebration of the completion of the harvestg a thanks to the Great Spirit who has given the Indians another year of plenty. Acoma means Sky-City, and indeed, the oldest continually inhabited Indian pueblo in the world is well named, for it rests on a rock which rises sheer and square out of the earth to a height of four hundred and twenty-five feet. Imagine the thrill of climbing the long, tortuous pathway upward, using the same steps and handhelds cut in the rock that the Indians used when they rushed to safety from the Spanish invaders. Once arrived, rather breathlessly, you see a sight that seems almost unreal. The houses, if such they may be called, are not built separately, a house to a family, but are built in long rows, the rooms all opening one into another. The houses are two to three stories high, of adobe of course, as all houses of the Southwest, and shaky little wooden ladders form the elevators, which the many dogs climb and descend with all the ease of the Indians. In the Sky-City, a tiny lake has been naturally formed in the hollow of the rock, and furnishes water for the ponies. The Indians, even in the oldest and most secluded pueblos, are a curious mixture of the old and new. An old Indian chief partcipating in the Corn Dance struck me as having about the most notably incongruous costume of all. An exceedingly fine pair of beaded Indian moccasins adorned liis feet, loose trousers of a white muslin-like material were gathered close to his knees with bright colored woolen yarns, which dangled in engaging loops at the sidesg a man3s,wp,urple checked coat shirt hung to its full and gaudy length nearly to his knees, and biuttonedi triumphantly, over all was an old grey vest, that probably was in style with his white brothers about l9l0. To this rusty vest was attached one of the most beautiful blue fox skins I have ever seen. Each Indian brave had one of these skins, which, it seems, are very highly prized, and carefully taken care of. No wonder, for they are certainly wonderful skins ,beautifully dressed. But everywhere throughout the Indian section, one is constantly seeing such instances of the ridiculous. However, a great many of the Indians, and especially the younger braves who attended the reservation schools, are very neatly dressed, and certainly are not, as is commonly supposed, a race without humor. And they are extremely polite. Visitors to Acgma were treated as royalty. At the same time the Corn Dance was progressing in all its maze of color and glory of weird song and muffled tom-tom, observed stoically by the older Indians, strains