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

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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!

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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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ITQHLE' 'B'A K 'EIRPLV R O C 1.' KrE T X PAGE 'THREE l Miss' Cole holds new curtains in auditorium... T ' '- Sixth Grade Happenings by Roger 'Wilkinson Telephone directory: Which one! What, you 'haven't heard about c the ltelephone 'directory Miss Rummelfs Sth grade class is making, well they have and it' contains their names, addresses, and phone numbers. They also have an ' aquarium' with two gold fish and some guppies. They have in 'a separate container a turtle which hasn't been named yetj One of 'Miss JGough's sixth grade A' pupils was talking to an- other 'student and was telling him about theirelectrical shop. Their electrical shop consists of some telephone bells running on 'dry Mustangs Trim Baker 13-0 T it 'by.1?Qteifi11Hef1.t11 .Cfnd. 'Y f,Fightin'g Vthrouhghrain and ijnud during thetffsecdind-yhalt otirplay the .IE iM'ustangs fro1ri:jO. . SchjQ5.Ql'1- slipped Vlpast 'thetifbiiiker Bucliaroosi- theylfirst quare ter' the MLtstangsgb1o:ksd3 Baker PUNT' ' 5395 f5Wi'1b1QYsELi.-lets:-t.TOM Fainter-f' Qjfff . ' Bobblf -',l',NUI1lS for the'iscoret.gQQFQ1ii1ter thenegl-led Ove? sfO1 'fhe siitfiif 'l Pdnfifr QE During the ju 't-hirdfg 1 guarter ith ball :-t changedffg-hands!gfrequentfy, and finally inthe last quarter.-the Mustangs rolled overitor another tally to cinch the game..The.try for extra point failed and fthe game ended the O. Henry Mus- tangs l3 'andlour Bakerteam U. Starring for Bakerwere ,Bill l-lame ilton, Don. Fincher, 'and ,Timmy Kanetzky. Also playing 'the .whole game on offense. were Tohn 'Giles and Victor Mokry. Helping- to keep the score down were Ernest McCarver' and Allan Rogers, but as' a whole the ,Baker team was just notstrongenough to hold tho powerful lltflustangs. Int the 'other game,U.T.H. cinched a, tie for the championship by defeating, the Travis Rebels.26,to 7. Y' y ' ' ' 4' r ' STATISTICS 3 . ' Baker O.Henry. Passes attempted 8- 5 Passes completed .... l I 2 y Passes intercepted .... 4, . l ' Yds. gained passing'l5 . 24. Yds. gained rushing 59 485- cell batteries. ' E ' Penalties --------- --5 ---- I 1- .1 , . 5 Fl T 5 'I Yds. lost on penalties 5 Q, 35 Ch-Gln Feed-S , Fumbles. ..,......- ...,....... - V2 Q 2 ...ru-is supnuoarezns l First downs ..... Q3 - f I4 - . Clayson Fuller, Mgr. S b ' ' ' A ' ' H 2 ' 'Red ,Chain Feed Company 1 Y quQrt?rS'V 0-0-OAG? U c 40' Weil 3't' Sf' l'Q Ef'ff'fi y o. il-lenry ........ g...7-0-Q-Gets Pauline's Beauty '--'ts rrShop-ef .5 ,45l7Ave.F ,- V . T Ph.,5?-OS25, 4 . AVE. B GROCERY T n A Where NljNeighbors Traded I A 4403 Ave. B ' -' Til-ioNE 5313921 -- M '- . Cgtripliments of fi up in HOME 'STEAM 311 T. .LAUNDRY- l4th and Red River Phone 8-2586 1 ' H. Mgy We Be- bruggisl' :- ' DRUG, if zaov ASAN JACTNTUE' Phone 8-4644 i -1- ' THE PURPOSE OF THANKSGIVING by 'Barbara Grice What is the purpose of Thanks- giving? No! Not to go and see the Texas-A. and M. game, but to be especially thankful to God for being so gracious to us. With 'Indians as guests, seated about -tables loaded with food, our Pilgrim Fathers celebrated their first Thanksgiving in Octo- ber l62l. . . -ln. l864 President Lincoln set aside the fourth Thursday in No- vember to be 'nationally known Cis. 'Thanksgiving Day. So when Thanksgiving comes around, stop awhile -and thank God for being so -goodqto usi Back Up? Our ,School- Aqtivities T A ' by'Char1otte Currier Y ' Say kids, what's wrong? Have you forgotten our school activities such as dances,-A football games, pep -rallies, band, the football team, and F.H,A.' lt's hightimev we back' these up. Find out what's going on behind the clubs and activities. Help plan the schbol idances and attend them. Go' to' our football games and help cheer our team on to VIC- TORY. 'l..et's back up our school activities. - T - ' t THE LONG STRETCH by Martha Io Sherrill 1 . The 'hunterf slowly stalks - his prey., He .draws a bead, takes careful' aim-twanngl. A bullseye as another .rubber band hits its markf P Yessir, the more they practise the better? they get around hereg' But, alas, of asudden the rubberubarids are banned. Yoi' wanna- 'know the 'whys and wherefores. O.K. Here they are. I-low do you think it feels to be Sitting in class concentrating very hard on nothing in particular, when you are suddenly hit from behind with a rubber band. Pleasant? Not at all. As a matter of fact, it just ,plain hurts and someone might get an eye put out. ' Chances are you'll live over the world-shaking loss of this little article so cheer up and look ahead to brighter days when rubber bands go out of fashion.