Baker Junior High School - Rocket Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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PAGE 6 THE BAKER ROCKET Grammar In A Nutshell Three little words you often see Are Articles-A, An, and The. A Noun's the name of anything, As School, or Garden, Hoop or Swing. Adjectives tell the kind of Noun, As Great, Small, Pretty, White or Brown. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand- Her head, His face, Your arm, My hand. Verbs tell of something being done- To Read, Count, Laugh, Sing, lump or Run. How things are done the Adverbs tell, As Slowly, Quickly, lll, or Well. Conjunctions join the words to- gether, As men, And women, wind or weather. The Preposition stands before A Noun as In or Through a door. The -Interjection shows surprise, As OH! how pretty! Ah! how wise! The whole are called Nine Parts of Speech, Which reading, writing, speaking teach. -Anon. BASEBALL QUIZ By Rufus Burke I. What is the distance from base to base? 2. Who discovered baseball and drew up the playing rules? 3. Who was the pitching star, and world series hero of 1925? 4. How many home-runs did Babe Ruth hit? Check next month's SPORTS PAGE for the answers to these questions. CLASSROOM CLASSICS The following boners are actual answers taken from examination papers of high school students lprintecl in Readers' Digestl: DEFINITIONS: A hamlet is a little pig. A filet mignon is an opera by Puccini. Sinister is a woman who hasn't married. GEOGRAPHY: Denver is just below the 0 in Colorado. The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere. HYGIENE: Four symptoms of cc cold: Two I forget and the other two are too well known to mention. Doctors today say that fatal diseases are the worse. Billy Rex Eastburn A nn Baldwin S andy Wade E ugene Anshon Billy Warren A rthur Chester L eon Campbell L enora Brockman F orrest Faulkner . Elizabeth Barron V era Ann Hanson Emily Io Flachmeier R osilee Shook Prize fighter latter second roundl: How am I doing? Manager: About fifty fifty l'd say. He hits you half the time and you miss him the other half. gf! .SFHOFLI pel 50l'laA'tg CAROLYN TAYLOR By Melbc: Allman Fifteen years ago in Smithville, Texas in the year 1937, our girl sports personality was bom. She is five feet, tive inches tall, weighs llU pounds, has brown hair, and green eyes. This description fits only one person, Carolyn Taylor. Carolyn's ambition is to be a model, so if some day you see a familiar face in a magazine advertisement it may be Carolyn. She likes the colors green and white: the slave- driver, Mr. Collins: the foods, roast and steak, class, P.E., singer, Nat King Cole, move stars, Susan Hayward and Dale Robertson, and song, Till I Waltz Again With You. She enjoys playing volleyball, swimming, boating, and all kind of sports. Charlie Zimmermann Television 8: Appliance esiaidcug gfltffg sofsuienjglg' as TEXPCO PRODUCTS center Carolyn isn't going with anyone The Best Fmmd YW' Ca' CM' Have' Sfromberg-Carlson Raytheon Zenith Hgh! HOW- Her phone number is Phone 1-3553 3015 Guadalupe 5237 N- Lamar 53-4828 CU.'1d. her CId.d.I'eSS is McCandles. Complete Garden Supplies Northwest Cleaners A a ga'6a::2::Wa e Aus-Tex Exterminators eros sums: nab odAustIn Phone s-5942 sm B R 8: Chemitcll CO. ust o Dru Cleaming uma! oad E. D- W , D- k D. W f FAMILY LAUNDRY service TELEPHONE 5-om I office pf: :IL TSE? Burnezokzf

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THE BAKER ROCKET PAGE 5 SCARLETT FRAZIER By Mary McGuire Scarlett Frazier! This particular name belongs to a well trimmed girl with brown hair, green eyes, is 5'3 , and weighs l03. Scarlett was born in Burnet, Texas, No- vember 24, 1940. Bringing us to- date, she's l2 years old. Scarlett entered Baker the tirst time in Iunior High and last year she attended Rosedale. Baker is a swell school in her opinion. Blue rates top on her list and Miss Rhodes also. Ike Taylor holds the number one spot as tar as boys go! Kcan't show a disapproval of her taste either.J Scarlett plans to attend AGM, and her ambition is to be a bang- up secretary. lncidentally, if you think you can change her mind, try 53-2787. With a face and tigure like Scar- lett's, the brave boys in this school might think it worth tan- gling with lke. .gl-ehaffjf yeulegy - .Sbciefy - i t 1 WILBUR URBAN By Sandra Wade lf you see a boy with blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes, is 5'9 and a husky l63 pounds, you will know that this handsome descrip- tion tits only Wilbur Urban. Hd was born in Lexington, Texds and has attended Rosedale and Baker in his lite of 14 years. Till I Waltz Again With You and Nat King Cole are favorites. Steak and French fries are tops, as are the colors green and white. Baker rates high with this list also. His ambition is to be a pro baseball player. I-le'll make good as he has wonderful sports ability. li you haven't yet met our 8th grade personality, do so. You'll be glad you did. P.S.-Say Wilbur, what's the matter with us girls?? .l.1.i.l- Business Men. Visit School By Mary Ann Goeke l Austin business men paid their visit to Baker Iunior High on April 8. ' Girls from the Student Council were selected to guide these men to various classrooms from 10:30 until 1:30. Every two girls were to guide two men. MARY ANN GOEKE By Laneta Steika Someone who loves to gab over the telephone, thinks LeRoy Paul is superb, as well as Baker and thinks Mr. Horn and Mrs. McLe- more deserve recognition as Well as their subjects Iournalism and Science. Other tops with this cer- tain person are Tell Me You're Mine, Mexican food, sky blue, and baseball and volley ball. If you want to aggravate her, try a particular type of teasing and see what happens. This certain person is 5'43f4 tall, has dark brown hair, brown eyes, and is as cute as they come. This person, l presume, all of you know, but just one more clue, she wants to teach school or be a journalist when she is older. Yes, our ninth grade personality this month is none other than Mary Ann Goeke. During the course of the morn- ing, guides and visitors were treated to doughnuts. coffee or cokes and A table was reserved in the lunchroom for the visitors and guides. Guides were: Scarlett Frazier, Mary Ann Goeke, Sara Rockwell, Peggy Laudan, Emily Flachmeier, Katherine McCann, ludy Lawson, Iudy Ellard, Dee Dee Williams. Sand Hitchcock, Nelda Hayes. ludy Cartwright, lean Haynie and Margaret Tampke.

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THE BAKER ROCKET PAGE 7 My 537016 QIUOII-d-Et, IRVIN RAWLS By Carolyn Peterson On May 23, 1937, in Rogers, Texas, our Boy Sports Personality was born. He is our own Irvin Rawls. Irvin has gone to Baker for five years and he just loves it. He has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He is husky, 5'9 and weighs lES3 pounds. lSorry girls, but Donna Peck already has Irvin hooked and tied.I Irvin likes Math and P.E. right along with Mr. Munson. His fa- vorite sport is football and he played center on the football team. Irvin hopes to make the A team at McCallum next year. I-Ie was manager of the basket- ball team and is a member of the Student Council. His favorites are food, any- thing that's homemade, movie star, Gary Cooper, song, Till I Waltz Again With You , and singer, Dinah Shore. lrvin's fa- vorite pastime is hunting, next to spending time with Donna. Irvin is filled with outstanding sports ability as well as being a wonderful sport. He fits the qual- ifications of the title Sports Per- sonalityf' Elth Grade Intramurals Have you heard something which resembles a herd of cattle and the loudness of a tormented hippopotamus after school in the big gym? Well it is probably the girls who are participating in the intramurals. There are three teams which consist of eight players each. Iudy Meier's team consists of Betty Roe, Ioanne Iohnson, Iohn- nie Davis, Donna Peck, Carol lean Norwood, Ava Nell Wood, Emily Io Flachmeier. Mary McGuire's team consists of Suzanne Bowl- ing, Gayle Sullivan, Frances Fisk, Lois Mayes, Frances Senkel, Betty Schwartz, and Bobetta Clayton. Ianice Stark's team consists of Melba Allman, Iune Eckman, Ruth Neilson, Frances McCloskey, Ida Nell Melton, Shirley Graham, and Eva Ann lohnson. The 7th and 8th grades are also entered in the Intramurals by playing in tournaments. MONEY Fathers earn it, Students burn it, Mothers lend it, Co-eds spend it, Forgers fake it, Taxes take it, Misers crave it, Bankers save it, Robbers seize it, Rich increase it, Gamblers lose it, I could use it. Hazlewood Texaco Service 530l N. Lamar AUSTIN TEXAS NIJ FULLUW THHIIUIE I By Katherine McCann A stout, little man was explain- ing his tennis game. When my opponent hits the ball to me, my brain immediately barks out a command to my body: Race up to the net-slam a blistering drive to the corner of the court-jump back into position to return the next volley. Yes, and then what? asked his friend. Then, sighed the stout little man, my body says, 'Who me?' B..l.H. Welcomes Practice Teachers The students of Baker are very honored to have nine practice teachers helping them in their work. Not that we don't' enjoy our usual teachers, because we do, in fact we hope our practice teachers turn out to be justlike them. The teachers are Miss Mc- Gahey, who teaches Homemak- ing, Mr. Knaggs, who teaches English, Mr. Stanger, who teaches Art, Mr. Miller, who teaches Band, Miss Stephens, who teaches Speech, and Mr. Rogers, Miss Borneman, and Miss Menasco, who all teach P.E. We hope that these teachers enjoy teaching at Baker as much as we enjoy having them. ,. ..i.1..-1i- Please Patronize Our Advertisers O I Hyde Park Pharmacy DRUGS GIFTS AND SUNDAES Let Us Fill Your Prescriptions 40l7 Guadalupe THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COA of Texas Palnts, Varnlshes. Lacquars, Leads. Oils, Enamels, Brushes and Palnfers' Speclaltles 2928 GUADALUPE ST. AUSTIN, TEXAS MARSHALUS HOBBIES AND TOYS American Flyer Trains 2924 Guadalupe Phone 2-I445 PICCADILLY CAFETERIAS Highest Quality-Liberal Portions FAIR PRICES 6:30 AM. to 8:30 P.M. 808 CONGRESS ,-:J-c::::: - -::::::::::::