HOWDY ANNETTE By Mae Strand and Randy Wilson Most horse hobbyists have a time of it keeping food in the house for their children and also in the barn for just one horse. Eighteen-year-old Annette Johnson bought one pony when she was twelve and pretty soon Annette had four horses and still has three of them around her two-acre ranch on Harrison Boulevard. The astonishing thing about Annette is that she is a mid-twentieth century throwback to the fine type of western girl who lived, romanced and rode the blue hills and the green and yellow prairies when the world was young and life was raw and wonderful, just the way it is done in the movies now. She loves to be around the four-footed friends who make such wonderful but expensive pets today and really meant life or death for their owners even as lately as early in this century. She dotes on horses. She knows considerable about them, too. But she is worried. Worried because now she has to figure out a major at Weber College and some university which will permit, support and actually encourage her in continuing with her horse hobby for the rest of her natural days. Ranching? Riding stables? Veterinary medicine? She says "no" to all of these. We think her ambition is to raise and train purebred stock for showing. But an experienced cowgirl (now called a cowbelle) is resourceful. After all Annette wangled jobs from neighbors and even pieces of pasture to feed her four hungry mouths. She clerked at a women's dress shop to get money for incidental expenses, like trailer, saddle and horseshoes. So friends are waiting confidently and don't feel that Annette will be bested. Safest bets are that she will marry a jockey or possibly a rancher and be in the big money. Of course, Annette being the fine girl she is, could do next best and re-direct the loyalties of some run-of-the-city hot-rod enthusiast toward man's traditionally best four-footed friend. Just last summer Annette had something wonderful happen to her. She was invited by a friend, another Weber College horsewoman, Lois Poison, to work the fall roundup on the Poison ranch at Kemmerer, Wyoming. She rode hundreds of miles after the dogies, roped calves just for the hell of it, pitched hay like a working cowhand, and consumed grass-fat Hereford steaks three times a day. She towed her favorite buckskin quarter horse along in her own hard-earned trailer and let him know for a change how country horses live, and brought back to Ogden a beautiful tan and a healthy "Howdy" for all her friends. Requirements like the trailer and hay were earned by such chores as clerking in a women's wear store in Ogden, and tending ponies for various horsey persons who are neighbors to Annette up on Harrison south of the new college campus. Continued on page 28 Giving out with the glamor as she perches on the top rail of the home corral, Annette gets that faraway look in her eyes as she scans the distant open spaces wherein reside the 83,319 population of Weber County and Ogden. The other interested individual is Amber. Annette gets the real west on a Wyoming ranch. She has dropped her string on a youthful Hereford and is about to upend him, it seems. Below, good friends Annette and Amber are ready to go. 2 Intrigue Opens Theater Season By Patricia Orme The Ogden Community-Weber College Theatre opened another theatrical season November 7, 1951, with "The Traitor" written by Herman Wouk and directed by M. Thatcher Allred. "The Traitor," a drama concerned with intrigue and suspense, was presented by a fine, well-balanced cast and was well received by Ogden theatre-goers. Bill Elliott portrayed "The Traitor," a young scientist who paid with his life for bargaining with unscrupulous agents for secret scientific information. In support of Mr. Elliott were John L. Shorten, Marilyn Carver, Frances Foulger, Rebecca Wells, Harold Westergard, Amos Sargent, Dick Slater, Jay J. Poulsen, Walter T. Prothero, Whitney Young, George Edgington, and Robert Van Dyke. Tense, dramatic scenes highlighted the performance and overlay the gripping intrigue of the plot. Ogden Community-Weber College Theatre presentations are joint productions of the Weber College drama department and the community of Ogden. Since its organization this institution has remained an important part of the cultural life of the college and the community. In previous years this organization has presented such well-known plays as "The Hasty Heart," "Liliom," "Goodbye, My Fancy," and others of comparable interest. In addition to "The Traitor" given in November, the plays "The Vigil," a religious drama, and "Two Blind Mice," a delightful comedy about bureaucratic government, are planned for February and May respectively. Under the able direction of the members of the Ogden Community-Weber College Theatre board and with the patronage of the college and the community, this organization is sure to continue producing in the future the fine plays it has produced in the past. The entire cast occupies the stage. From left actors are Jay Poulson, Whitney Young, Rebecca Wells, Harold Westergard, John Shorten, Frances Foulger, Walter Prothero, Amos Sargent, Marilyn Carver, Bill Elliott and Dick Slater. Amos Sargent as head of the university's board of regents insists to Dr. Emmanuel (John Shorten) and Dr. Carr that they issue a questionnaire testifying to the government. 3