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

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PAGE TWO THE BAKER ROCKET LOST and FOUND Probably there is not a person in the world who, at one time or another, has not lost something. Perhaps it was something mate- rial which you valued highly, maybe you found it again, maybe you didn't. Then perhaps this thing you lost was something in- tangible, your faith and trust in someone, a relative, a friend, per- haps God. , Often a lost trust or faith in someone is because of the other person, but many times it is you. You lose your trust because of a trivial matter. Then it is up to you to find that trust again. They say that everything that goes up must come downg like- wise everything that is lost may be found. Remember this when you lose faith, a friend, or any- thing else. Remember and be grateful that something lost is not necessarily gone forever. B A L D W I N Pianos and Organs Capitol Piano Co. l5l8 Guadalupe Street 1 ,ii my 0, e f- -2 'F'- xx' 1 oprot-l 1 if ll' 'K ' t T 0 A , Ek t R TJ 9 3 is ' T A oo wow THINK 'Mtv What Has Happened to Our New Years Resolutions? New Years Resolutions are made to break. This saying is what many of us go by concern- ing Resolutions. ln fact, too many of us make these promises just to say that they are made and at the first opportunity we break them. The origin of New Years Resolu- tions probably started even be- fore the present day calendar came to be. People wanted to try and live better lives in the years to come. Usually they stuck to their promises. It is human nature for us to think about the coming year to be the best, instead of being thankful for the past. Be thankful for the past and yet plan the future. No one should live in the past or in the future. You should al- ways live this very moment as if it is the best moment of your lives. ,lt can be your most mem- orable moment if you keep your Resolutions. Of course you should make resolutions that will better the world and influence those around you. ty 14 QL Qu 1,143 u M ff: 3 SIXTH GRADERS AT WORK Standing from left to right are Esther McKeehan and Elaine Stubbs with their puppets. The sixth graders of Baker School have been very busy these last few weeks. First they went to camp and had a wonderful time. Miss Rummel's 6-2 class returned to begin work with Mrs. Bach, an art practice teacher, on pup-. pets. Two of the finished puppets are pictured above. They were made by Elaine Stubbs, whose puppet represents a girl reporter and Esther Mclieehan whose pup- pet represents a naughty boy. They are also writing plays. They are hoping to produce them sometime in the future. Miss Gough's sixth graders have been working with their practice teacher, Mrs. Cahill, for the last few weeks. Rocket Staff Editor-in-chief .......... Laneta Stefka Asst. Editor ........ lerry Scarborough Business Mgr ........... Arthur Chester News Editor ..........,. Carol Wyckoff Sports Editor .......... Delbert Moberg Feature Editor .......... Martha Smith Copy Reader .......... Martha Sherrill Photographers ........ Wiley Wyman, Thomas Flowers, Ann Baldwin Reporters - Sherry Bailey, Ioyce Berry, Charlotte Currier, lrving Cutter, Alice Dawson, Ella Dean' Franks, Barbara Grice, Gerald Heath, Delores Henderson, Les- ter Lang, Avis McFarland, Yvonne Platt, Nancy Ramm, Elizabeth Schwab, Marg' Lavfanda Thurman, F1 c cf e 3 l i it s c iii Dee Dee .1 . tx ix . 5-. ,.,.,.. Q '. . r--se,r---..,.

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.....l. im..i HE B KER RCCKET The Eye and Emo' of Baker VOL. V ISSUE IV BAKER IUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL - IAN, '54 BABY 1954 HAS ARRIVED U.T. Student Tells About Turkey Basdug Qunger, working for his masters degree in civil engineer- ing at the University of Texas, talked to two of Miss Cole's classes in December. He is from Turkey and is attending the uni- versity for one year under the student exchange plan. The main topic of discussion during the interview was the peo- ple of his country. When asked about the apparel of the people of Turkey he said that they no longer wear the old costumes usually pictured by Americans Cexcept in some far eastern partsl. In the way of education, he stated that the people of his country and those of most European countries usually speak several languages, including English, the latter main- ly because of the American tour- ists that come to Europe. Mr. Qunger himself speaks Greek, Turkish, English, a little French, and some Arabic. tHe said that he found English to be the easiest to learn of all the language-sl. The people are also very inter- ested in politics, at home and abroad, and consider the diplo- matic relations with the United States very important. One other most interesting thing that he mentioned was that, although television has not yet reached Turkey, it has radio, up-to-date telephone systems and the cars are mostly recent American models. Mr. Ounger was very interest- ing and we hope that he enjoys his stay in America and will come back if possible. Here is Baker's own Baby 1954 wish- ing you cz very happy and successful new year! , DRAMA CLUB NEWS The Drama Club will probably be pretty busy from now until March or April. They are prepar- ing for the Interscholastic League. They will enter a one-act play, for which try-outs will be heldg also students entering declama- tion and extemporaneous speak- ing will compete. Try-outs, to fill the places of the ninth grade Drama Club mem- bers who will be leaving, will be held in the spring. There will also be a spring party at which the new officers will be inaugurated by the old ones. Interscholastic League Conference Is Upon Us Spring is now approaching and the school's fancy turns to Inter- scholastics and who from their school will take high honors. It is hoped that everyone who will go will come back with honors. This year there will be tryouts for spelling, writing, journalism writing, copy reading, declama- tion, extemporaneous speaking, and the one-act play. We hope there will be many people trying out for the meet and may the best man Win. The stork has arrived and brought us Baby '54, and we now have disposed of Gramps '53, The kids from B.I.l-I. have come back to school with oodles of res- olutions to break. Seems our Mr. Pine has informed his algebra class of theirs. Let's hope Baby '54 peps up Delbert Moberg, David Melber, Sam Olguin, Don Benner and Roger Wilkinson and also the other basketball players to win all our games. May we all have tons of luck and happiness this year and the next. GIVE A LISTEN Bakerites have a nice schedule of dances in store for them. First the F.H.A. is sponsoring a Formal Valentine Dance on February 12. During Friendship Week we will have a dance at which our guests will be McCallum Iunior High students. This will take place in April. We get party wise again in May with a get together. Then we wind up the year's activities at the big End of School Dance. So, dust off your dancing shoes and get ready. Credit Where .Credit Is Due Credit is given to people for many different things. I think a lot of it should be given to the people who have made possible assemblies this past year. It takes a lot of hard work to put on an assembly and if you don't believe this just ask someone who has helped to put one on. Also, if you have an idea for a good assembly you might talk to one of your teachers to see what can be done about it. I imagine everyone has enjoyed all the past assemblies and are probably looking forward to more in the future.

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THE BAKER ROCKET 1.7 --W b Y PAGE THREE STUDENT DIRECTORIES GOING ON SALE Will you join the crowd oi kids buy- ing student directories? The ones shown are KL. to RJ Ierry Scarborough. I. T. Pruett, Charles Inscore, Clysta Stone. Dot Hall. Betty Lewis and Priscilla Schworthy and seated is Wiley Wyman. You will probably be glad to hear that the Iournalism class will be publishing a student directory. Won't it be wonderful to have a directory of all the students and you won't have to look at all the names in the city directory? KNOW it will be easier for you boysll Nancy Ramm is in charge ot get- ting the information for the direc- tories and Wiley Wyman is in charge of the sale. They will try to have them on sale by Febru- ary. We would appreciate it if you would all get behind Nancy and Wiley in making the sale of the directories successful. 42Off.y'. Jlflafsfuziiy gfiop Shop Us First or Last I306 GUADALUPE WHAT HAPPENED? Well I guess all of you were pretty busy over the holidays, or were you? I guess Santa came to every house on his GOOD list Were you on THAT list? We hope so. Did all of you beat the alarm clock Friday morning, after Thurs- day night? CNew Years Eve Nightl But by the looks of things on Con- gress Avenue and the sound that was heard all over Austin at l2:UO straight up, l am quite sure that you didn't. Have you all lived up to your New Years Resolutions so far? lf you have, you've beaten me. I am sure that all of the stu- dents had a wonderful time over the holidays, here are a few examples: Bertha Ingram: Spent all of her time talking on the phone, Ctalk- ing to Raymond as we might all know? Ann Ruth Beam: Went all the way to San Saba all by herself on the great big, big bus. Helen Hausman: Spent Christ- mas Day in the hospital. Poor girl. Ioan Beard: OOH! How excit- ing! She and a girl friend got the car all to themselves and drove all over Granger. UMM! Wonder who they met. Sherry Bailey: HUM! Met the most charming boy. Charles Arnold: At ll:59 New Years Eve was so sleepy that he popped only one tinsy winsy fire- cracker and then tumbled into bed. Wilson Ienson: Well, we couldn't get the truth. l wonder? F.H.A. SWEETHEART TO BE ANNOUNCED The F.H.A. Sweetheart Dance will be held February 12, 1954. The sweetheart of the dance will be crowned that night and until then no one knows who it is. Each class voted, and chose five from each class to represent them in the contest. F.H.A. 'nem- bers then voted for ten girls out of the twenty candidates. The nominee with the most votes will be crowned sweetheart. The top ten nominees are Pat Foreman, Nancy Dement, Mary Nell Gree- son, Barbara Grice, Sandy Hitch- cock, Ianice Kuhn, Carol Moore, Mary Sue Schwartz, Claryce Smith and Martha Smith. Good luck, gals!! One of you is the F.H.A. sweetheart!! Baker Students' Wec. ving Make Up Exhibit Ieepers! This weaving sure is good. Of course, we're talking about the weaving exhibit that began around Ianuary llth in the Bickler Building! Did you know that all of the weaving was done by some of our own art students? Which, we can certainly be proud of. Weaving seems to be one of the main projects for this six weeks with the 7th grade art stu- dents as well as drawing winter fun pictures. The 8th graders are working and glazing clay, while the 9th graders are glazing their clay which they made last six weeks. They are also working on Water color pictures. My! May- be when we are all grown, we may find some old Bakerite as a famous artist or painter in our midst. What do you think? The CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK in Austin EUUH .,..,fUNEBllHUUE-..- enocsnv- MARKET The Hitchin Post Member F.D.I.C. Where the cuisine of the South meets that of the West 3035 Guadalupe U.S. Government Depository Austin, Texas I0ll Lamar Blvd. Ph. 8-8827