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

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CC E f The Eyef and Emcr of Baker VOL. V ISSUE ll BAKER IUNlOR HIGH SCHOOL NOV., 1953 THAN DRAMATIC CLUB PRESENTS by Barbara Grice The officers of the Drama Club were elected Tuesday, October 13. They are as follows: Presi- dent Laneta Stefka: Vice-Presi- dent: Ann Cavetg Secretary: Nancy Rammp Historian: Carol Wyckoff 5 Parliamentarian: Bar- bara Grice. They selected for their name The Footlight Players. Their first play is titled The Fighting Littles. Tryouts for parts were as follows: Mrs. Little .................. Laneta Stefka Mr. Little .................. Iohnny Sherrill Goody ..........,.,......... Barbara Grice Ham Ellers ................ Don Lee Tew Eilmer ............. ................ L ee Iones Antoinette ...................... Emily Ford Almatina ................ Darline lnnman Henriette .................... Nancy Ramm Norman Peele ............ lrving Cutter Cousin Oleta ............ Ann Baldwin Mrs. Harpeddle ...... Carol Wyckoff Dicky .................... Craig Hickethier Miss Baloga ........ Charlotte Griffith Cuckoo .................... Virginia Wann Screwball ......,....... Becky Hatherly Student Director ............ Ann Cavet The play is being presented on November 23 and 24. Band Holds Elections by Charlotte Currier and Ann Baldwin What was that that hit me? lt must have been the baton of one of our new majorettes! Charlotte Currier, Dennie Dement, Mary Sue Schwartz, and Dee Dee Wil- liams were elected to be the Baker majorettes. They are plan- ning to twirl in the parade down Congress Avenue on Band Day. Surely they will lead our great Baker Band to even greater achievements. KSGWENG DAY by Charlotte Currier One of the many things for which we can be thankful is Thanksgiving Day itself. When life begins to seem a little dull with its regular round of school Having an executive meeting Ire the Eootlight Players' officer: Left to right they are: Barbara Brice, Laneta Stefka, Ann Cavet Nancy Ramm and Carol Wyckoff ART DEPARTMENT MAKES ASH-TRAYS FOR BANGUET Miss Knudson's art department made ash-trays for the National Administrator's Banquet which was held at the Driskill Hotel at noon on October 30, 1953. The host was the superintendent of the Austin Public Schools, Mr. lrby Carruth. There were 40 su- perintendents from 22 states. They were from cities having popula- tions of lUO,UOO- 2U0,0UO. Also at- tending the banquet were the School Board and the Commis- sioner of Education, Dr. I. W. Edgar. and never-ending lessons, along comes Thanksgiving and gives us a holiday. We're thankful for vacation, but We're just as thank- ful for the chance to goto school again. The people who celebrated our first Thanksgiving Day would have been glad if they could have the opportunity to go to schools such as we have today. The first Thanksgiving procla- mation issued by a President was after the Revolutionary War, when President Washington ap- pointed Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of general thanks- giving and prayer. lt was Lin- coln, however, who finally estab- lished our Thanksgiving Day as a regular and permanent holiday. ln 1864 he issued a proclamation appointing the last Thursday in November for a general day of thanksgiving. He planned to have the day observed thereafter as an annual holiday and most presi- dents since that time have fol- lowed his example. On receiving the President's proclamation, the governors of the several states issued procla- mations of their own, naming the same day, the last Thursday of November, which is the accepted day all over the United States. Almost all countries have had days of thanksgiving, even as far back as the times the Bible tells of, when the Children of Israel were in the land of the Canaan- ites. The ancient Greeks and Romans had festivals of harvest, and in England the Harvest Home is a day still celebrated in country districts. Thanksgiving is a day of big family dinners and of festive en- tertainments, but back of all this feasting and hilarity is the reason why we keep a day like this. The name oi the holiday explains the reasong--we keep this day for giving thanks.

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PAGEHGHT THE BAKER R0 CKET I MATH . By Sherry 'Bailey l-lurray! another touchdown. This sound can be heard quite often coming fr o m Mr. Pine's eighth grade math class. Strange you say, well we must admit it is a little unusual, but it is really just the eighth grade playing foot- ball in a new way. You see the game is played in the usual way except instead of running or pas- sing for yardage they work prob- lems. Let's see. lt looks like the seventh grade math students are doing a little review work in frac- tions. The ninth grade general math classes are also doing fun- damental review work. The al- gebra class seems to be discover- ing sign numbers. Now we have the best news of all. Mr. Pine says that we are go- ing to have a math club this year at Baker. The date has not been definitely set but Mr. Pine said that he hoped it would be organ- ized by the end of the second six weeks. He also said that if enough eighth and ninth grade students were interested that they would have a different g r o u p from the seventh grade. We hope everyone will be interested and join. fblh Seville The South's Unique Restaurant and Gift Shop I6th AND GUADALUPE Phone 8-432l Drama Starts in at Baker By Martha Smith Drama tryouts were held Mon- day and Tuesday, October the 5th and Sth in the auditorium. Thirty Bakerites were chosen out of the sixty who tried out. They were chosen because of their abi- lity in giving a skit or other oral selection. The lucky actresses and actors are Nancy Bamm, Carol Wyckoff, Dennie Dement, Carolyn Crider, Virginia Wann, loyce Ber- ry, Alice Dawson, Margaret Lay- bourn, Ann Baldwin, Laneta Stel- ka, Barbara Grice, Ann Cavett, Sandy Hitchcock, Wilma Ander- son, Becky Hatherly, Darline ln- man, Sue King, Avis McFarland, Ethel Ann Kidder, Emily Ann Ford, Charlotte Griffith, Iohnny Sherrill, Arthur Chester, Don Lee Tew, Glenn Noble, Dicky Kemp, lrving Cutter, Lee lones, Wiley Wyman, and Craig Hickethier. Our speech teacher Miss Cole is supervisor of this club. Here's wishing them good luck on their plays which they will give throughout the year. Homemaking Happenings By Mary Sue Schwartz The girls in Mrs. Harville's homemaking classes have been rather busy. The 7th grade classes have learned to take care of their fingernails and have been manicuring them. The 8th grade are going to start their first lesson in sewing. A lady from Scarbroughs visited each 8th grade class and talked to them about material. T If you happen to be walking F. H. A. Busy With Fall Activities By Laneta Stefka The F. H. A. in Baker has been pretty busy with the elections of chapter officers. The newly elected officers elected by secret ballot were president-Sherry Bailey, vice- president-Nancy Dement, secre- tary-Barbara Grice, treasurer- Sandy Hitchcock, co-reporters- Sue King and Charlotte Currier, parliamentarian - Martha Smith, song leader-Carol Wyckoff and historian-Harriet Palmer. There were thirty-two girls who were nominees. May our F. H. A. offi- cers have a successful year and the backing of the student body. SAFETY PATROL By Wiley Wiman We have a very nice group of boys who compose our Safety Patrol. These boys will do their best so it is up to us to help them. The boys have gotten new caps and belts which look very nice. The captain, Walter Hadenlder said they would appreciate it, if we would help them, help the scliool by minding the Safety Pa- tro . Look Your Best For School Days SPEIR BEAUTY SHOP lol WEST sih The Ioe Cockrell CO. bY the homemaking. room and SALES - SERVICE - RENTALS - SUPPLIES , smell something delicious, you - PRINTING - OFFICE SUPPLIES will know it's the 9th grade girls Dune ' . . an T l6I6 Lavaca S+, cooking. According to Mrs. Har- Cypewrlter PHONE 7-4467 ville these girls cooked a very 0' d 1. . . e lclous' mst luncheon' EXCLUSIVE ROYAL TYPEWRITER REPRESENTATIVES Barnes 6 Skeeteris Barber Standard and Electric . E.J. Sk t H b t, 403 East 43rd Street 2gf3eE-,uadegluile owner C'P:'ll13g-FJQQN PHONE 53-I I22 ON THE DRAG - - Ausnn 5' Texas Phone 8-0265 l307 N. Congress Austin, Texas D Pepp r Malts - Shakes - Sundaes - Cones - Pints - Quarts D AIR Y Q U EE N TASTES BETTER 29l2 Guadalupe 5255 Burnet Road

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PAGETWO THE BAKER ROCKET A RJ? UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE I :rust qo-In REPORT I by Martha IO Sherrill Ierry Scarborough-with a crew cut. Bonnie Platt-quiet and shy. Dee Dee Williams-with a poodle. Our cheerleaders-not hoarse after a game. Algebra I--without Ierry Scar- borough, Roger Wilkinson, and Carol Wyckoff. Martha Smith-without those 0 0 dimples. 0 0 0 David Kennedy-without his 4 0 0 0 0 ninth-grade girl friends. 1 0 bb 0 . Vera Carter-without her friendly ,E Q, smile. 6 B I' Ap ' I Lamar Anderson-being courte- 6 S I 0 7 . ous to the cheerleaders. B 5 6 6 0 Emily Ann Ford-looking bored. ?4+ ii v-,y ...-....-.....,.. This is a familiar scene in the Igalls of Bakery his head was in the THE NIGHT BEFORE clouds until he got his report car s. -I-HANKSGIVING F. H. A. TRIP by Charlotte Currier Did you hear someone saying, Did I forget anything? Oh, l'm cold! I can't wait until we get started, or anything of that type? It you did that was the F. H. A. girls getting ready to start for Dallas. The trip turned out to be sensa- tional with the two wonderful bus drivers, Smitty and Dizzy, and our wonderful chaperones. We did everything under the sun from making up yells to sleeping and from eating to rid- ing the roller coaster. X 23512166 0179 eos Congress Charles Lee Music Co. 2406 San Antonio St. Holton Band Instruments THE CELEBRATION OF THANKSGIVING by Nancy Ramm and Dee Dee Williams In the years past on Thanksgiv- ing everyone in the family piled into the sleigh and drove off to Grandma's house for a day of feasting and fun and, most im- portant, giving thanks to God. Now, most families still get together and eat and give thanks and have fun. Usually there is turkey and dressing, cranberry sauce, potatoes, giblet gravy, 'hot rolls with butter, pumpkin pies and all other kinds of things. Doesn't that sound good? People celebrate Thanksgiving in other lands too. In Norway, when the harvest has been taken in for the year, they have a feast called Host Gilde. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated annually on the last Thursday of November in Canada. When the harvest is taken in, the Scotch celebrate the Kern. In Russia, the harvest festival was one of the most important in the whole year. aol 'TIM 3l 'l'iigl . North side W H CALCASIEU by Arthur Chester 'Twas Thanksgiving eve, and all through the room, The turkeys were chewing their toenails in gloomy The axe was hung in the kitchen with care, Lest it murder the turkeys ere morning was there. The children were snuggled all safe in their beds, While turkey and cranberries danced in their heads. With Mama in bed, I was in the kitchen, And just settled myself for a mid- night snitchin' When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the ice box to see what was the matter. To the window I ran, a fast- moving shapep Tore open the shutters: Cnow they're fixed with Scotch tape? The moon on the city park's white snow Was shining away at spooners below, When what did my wondering eyes behold, But a '54 Plymouthg it must've been stoledy With a tough-looking driver, a gun at his side- I knew in a flash it was sneak- thief McRide. I got out my shotgun and gave him a leer- Mclitide got no turkeys from my house this year!