Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Fisk S ssfgwa 3 ln scholarshlp and a perfect attendance record They ran agalnst lrns nature but lt IS marvelous what an object can do to spur people on and lmmy was no exception The contest was to be held for the month of October and It was October flrst To Miss Conway the gentle hearted and near sighted teacher m Room Fourteen lt was llke every other but not so to lmmy After fm lshlng a selection from the Blble the day s lessons were begun The first was geography Sam state the pxmclpal products of Australia MISS Conway asked and as he rattled off the llst accurately she looked about her with smlle of approval and letting her eyes rest on lmmy she remarked If all my puplls were luke Sam Kornofsky teaching would mdeed be a pleasure xmmy wlll you enumerate fwe important cltles of Australla and tate a fact about each'-' lmmy gave them wlthout an error Miss Conway ralsed her eyebrows IH surprlse but supposing the recltatxon to be a freak she passed lt by As the days passed however lmmy rrvaled Sam and a close con test ensued between them Miss Conway went through her duties with a sense of prlde and pleasure for had she not transformed the worst boy ln school lnto one of the best and succeeded ln dolng what no other teacher had done3 The sltuatlon was becommg desperate for lmmy Three weeks had passed wrth no apparent advantage to exther lmmy addmg m school to that old axlom All IS falr m love and m war declded to use strategy As Sammy entered the schoolyard one day the hltherto aloof lmmy approached hlm enthusiastically and demanded Wanna Joln my gang3 Sammys face kindled wlth Joy for what boy at the age of eleven wlll not Join a gang especlally one which has as lts members the aristocracy of Boyv1lle3 Sure Sam replied whadayou pay to get 1n3 Dont pay nuthin lmmy answered dlsgustedly you glt nltlated first If you wanna joln we ll nltlate you now Sammy school forgotten gladly assented and the gang proceeded to a nearby lot to nltlate him ln spite of the fact that the last bell would rlng m ten mmutes The ritual was COplCd from a Deadshot Duck novel and after sundry abrldgements and modlfxcatlons had been made because of the time was substantlally as reported below Sammy s fmger was prlcked and a few drops of blood collected wlth out any appreclable enjoyment on his part These before the awestrlcken eyes of the younger members were dropped on Sams head whrle Jlm solemnly pronounced the following Sam Kornofsky IS now offlclally Page 7 uenty Ame sq . ' ' .,..1 - i - X ,NS Z Y X x X Nt rx X Nexm 's E- s p, , - , Ak is , 1 Y 1 . , ' ' , , J - - . . . . Q - , V , .r . . . -. . , y 1 y n a . . -- - v . . . . .- , . .. . . . . . . J , H S . I Y 1 ' . . J - 1 - . . Q.. 1. ' 1 . U . . . . -. . , . y J - - - U . . ,- , . - . . . v y .1 . n rr .1 . .r . H - s v . .. v . . .. . . .. . - . . , J , . . v - . . '- v 1 1 . . . . . . 1 . . . - v . . - v . .. . . 1 V. r - -.

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fills so X i xgweag JIMMY BARRYS GREAT MOMENT If one looked rather closely at a large map of Pennsylvania he would hnd lVlcKees Rocks to be located on the Ohlo Rlver about fifteen mlles above Pxttsburgh lVlcKees Rocks was a typlcal steel town It had a large forelgn popu lation whnch concentrated ID a smgle dlstrlct called the Bottom from the mam offices of the steel company for a block extended the business dlstrl-.t of this section It consisted of the Emporlum S Kornofsky Proprietor Ladies lVlens and Childrens Furnlshlngs Poradas Saloon the social center of the town a furnlture store the Mars the leading motion plcture house ln the Bottom a feature picture every night and severa grocery stores Further along the same street and branching from lt extended row after row of four family houses monotonous ln their slmllarlty and reflect mg the squalld and poverty strlcken axr of the sectxon ln general ln one of these houses llved lmmy Barry a youth of twelve plentl fully endowed wxth freckles to match hrs carrot colored halr He had blue eyes a stub nose and ears whxch he could wrlggle to the great dellght of himself and hls aSSOClHt6S Hrs father belng quite occupled when off work ln swelling lVl1ke Poradas bank account and hrs mother engrossed m the care of the vounger members of her plentiful brood perhaps cllcl not glVC hlm the attention he deserved As a result he developed mto a regular cllent of the uvemle Courts and an excellent prospect for the penltentlary e smoked butts from the street when he could not steal hrs father s nalls as he called them By right of conquest he was the head of a gang whose greatest delights were to bean a man with a be be gun break a wrndow or do some other mlschxef He attended the Carnegle Qchool or rather he was made to attend t As the other alternative was the House of Correction he chose the lesser of two evils l-e was the despalr of all teachers because of his mlschlevous and obstinate dlsposltlon He seemed lmpervlous to all knowledge and yet ln the heart of this mlscreant rankled a desire to take the leadmg part m the entertamment held by the Carnegle School at the end of every half year The entertalnment was a pecullar mstltutlon ln the Bottom lt was the dramatlc event of the year On that day Pole and Slovak l-lungarlan and RUSSIBH lrlsh and German turned out en masse to see thexr helrs perform To take the leading part rn this was Indeed an honor to be sought md lmmv wanted lt When lmmy wanted a thlng he usually got lt m spite of all dlfhcultles The reoulrements for the honor were first rank P151 Tut 111 I 14111 Y W 5 ' 1 Q' Xgggha Q 5r.b K. K X xg - A S 0 4' .X S Ns - T - , - Y L ,, 1 1 . . . . . . .1 11 1 1 1 . . . . . .1 . - 1 - 1 . . 1 1 . 1 . . 11 1 - 1 1 1 . . .1 11 - 1 L 1 1 1 1 I D 1 - , B - J , , - 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . 1 1 . - 1 ' o u 11 . 1 .1 . 11 -1 1 - 1- 11 - H 1. . . - , ' 4 . N-f 1 1 I . . ., , - I . . . . . ..... 1. 11 , ' 1 1 1 f ll - .I .- I ' 4?' '- Q. , 1

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fi-'1lS X i Ssxgiei baptrzed ln hrs own blood and rs chr stened Black lm the Dip and IS enrolled as an everlastlng member of the Bottom Gang Next the dazed Sammy was tled securely head and feet and a clrcle of yelllng proddlng lndlans formed about hlm By thls tlme he was blub bermg and when the gang left hlm the blubbermg broke mto a prolonged wall ust as the last bell rang he succeeded m releasing himself and came ln school late Hrs record was broken and lmmy got the leading part ln the entertamment It was seven o clock of The Day and already there were a handful of people m the Pollsh Falcon Hall Now there entered a tall Slovak vsrth broad features and gnarled hands accompanled by hrs shriveled woman as he called her and a group of young coming Amerlcans who had come to see their brother Stanislaus ln the tamment Next there entered lmmys parents hls father with bloated face and red nose and wrth a feeling of dlsgust his thoughts of the bunch at Porada s saloon and as befitted the mother of such an lmportant personage Slovak lrlsh Pole Magyar all entered to form one of the motllest though most appreclatlve crowds ever seen at a school entertainment Enght oclock approached wlth the performers m a buzz of 6XCltC ment and with the teachers lmgermg nervously m the wmgs whlle the crowd chattered volubly ID all languages mcludmg the Scandinavian At last the prmclpal arose and dellvered a speech of welcome to the assembled multitude ln plte of the fact that not flfteen per c nt of the audience understood what he said he was applauded heartily and the pro gram began The first number was a vrolm solo lntermmgled wrth lt were the cries of babies of all nations To even an amateur IH music there would be a serlous doubt as to whether the vlollmst or the babxes pro duced the better music but to the crowd the vlolln solo was beautlful Encores were enthu lastlcally demanded and given whlle the face of the mother of thls coming genlus beamed with prlde Thus the program went on number after number bemg heartlly applauded At last the cllmax of the evenmg arrlved It took the form of a pageant of the forty elght states Each boy had the name of a state pmned dlagonally across the front of his body lmmy of course was Pennsylvanra They executed then' maneuvers without a mlshap and were a pleasing plcture for any stage Comlng to rest at last they were applauded until the walls reverberated nmmy s great moment was at hand ames Barry stepped forward to clellver the poem Columbla by oaqum Miller All eyes looked hrs way and the spot light especially Imported from Pittsburgh played upon hlm For the first time ln his life Jlmmy felt a feellng akm to fear He Page Tlzzrly ' ' : .1 - X X X 'assi Y - 4l' 1 r T Y ' - . . Q ! , , Jimmy's mother, clad in the first new dress she had had in two years, . , ., . ' , s ' e , - S. . . . , . ' Y f 1 tl I YY nl a n r , J - ,