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

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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

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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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PAGE FOUR -171 --'Tv ,, THE BAKER ROCKET - Perronozlitzbr - Personalities for this month are: 7th grade, Glen Noble: 8th grade, Charles Dodson: and 9th grade. Nancy Dement. Sugar, spice, and everything nice, describes our 9th grade personality perfectly this month. To let you know a little more about her . . . she is 5 feet tall, weighs 108 pounds, has brown hair, and brown eyes. Her hobby is being with her steady, lohn Thompson. Among her favorites are, color-green, song- Ebb Tide, food - Mexican, and teacher - Mr. McLemore. lust a few more clues before we tell you who she is. She is a cheerleader, an officer in F.H.A. and is in the mixed chorus. lf you haven't guessed who she is, she is none other than Nancy Dement. Where there's smoke, there's fire and where there are girls, there's Charles Dodson. Charles was born in Austin, is thirteen, and has attended Baker all his eight years of schooling. He has red hair, brown eyes, weighs 133 pounds, and is 5 feet 7 inches tall. Among his favorites are girls, dancing, blue and gray, P.E., foot- ball, and Mr. Hickerson. Charles also likes both hillbilly and popu- lar music. He has four sisters and as of now has no amibition. lf you don't know Charles, make it a point to meet him, You'll like him! Sigh Drool Yum -These are some of the sounds coming from the mouths of the girls of B.l.H. when a certain young man of the seventh grade passes by. ln case you are wondering who this is, he's Glen Noble. lust so you'll recognize him, he has blue eyes and blond hair, his birth- day is on November 27th and he's i3 years old, and 5 feet 5 inches tall. As far as favorites are con- cerned, his are: teacher-Mr. Mc- Lemorep subject-gyrnp food-veni- song colors-green, red and blueg song- That's Amore , and hobby- stamp collecting. He likes to dance, and when asked what he thought of Baker, he replied, lt's a pretty good school. lf you haven't met Glen yet, l'cl advise you to as soon as you can, it's a real pleasure! Letters To The Editor Dear Editor, Where is the gossip column? l enjoyed it last year very much. A Fellow Bakerite Dear Student, ln publishing a paper you have to set a goal as you do in any- thing else. The goal we have set is for a better paper. We feel that gossip, besides hurting peoples feelings, will lessen the popular- ity of the paper, and that could well mean the end of the Rocket. The Editor Roy Cox Service Station Phone 5-942l Your Friendly Sinclair Dealer 43rd 8: Duval May We Be Your Druggist TOWER DRUG 2807 SAN JACINTO Phone 8-4644 SMILE AWHILE Wasn't it cute? Well geepers! Ain't it still just a doll? This cute thing is a bit larger now that it is 1954, but it hasn't grown much. This picture was taken about l94O. Look at those sweet eyes! Aren't its feet just the tiniest things? We might add that it has quite a few more teeth now. This baby is wondering the halls of Baker and surely you've met up with this little thing. lt has two of the cutest dimples and blond hair. Swimming hits high on its list during the summer. Iust for an- other hint, here are some names that different Bakerites call our baby: The daring one g The little devil p little breeches g and cutie Some hints! Perhaps you think you know who our baby is for the month. lf so, write down your guess along with your name and put it into the Press Box. By the way, last month's Baby Personality was lohnny Sherrill. Marilyn Henderson and Barbara Williamson were the only ones to guess right. Better late than never, but bet- ter never late. 6-illefyn 3 TELEPHONE 6-SI I0 FEMININE FASHIONS 2904 Guadalupe Austin, Texas AVE. B GROCERY Where All Neighbors Trade 4403 Ave. B PHONE 53-392i Loolc Your Best For School Days SPEIR BEAUTY SHOP l0I WEST 5th