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

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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

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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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T.H.E BAKER ROCKET yy PA6Eg.FIYE BASKETBALL BOYS BAT BASKETS Away goes Baker into the bas- ketball season again. Twenty boys Went out for bas- ketball, and fourteen made it. First-stringers are Delbert Mo- berg, Don Benner, David Melloer, Roger Wilkinson, and Sam Ol- guin. Other players are Victor Mokry, Ierry Marx, Iimmy Kanet- zky, Don Fincher, Clarence Pruitt, W. E. Taylor, Ierrel Archie, Frankie Bloomquist, and Al Shaf- fer. The team has lots of hustle but not much heighty what little there is being in Wilkinson, Ren- ner, and Olguin. 1954 Baker Basketball Schedule First Round Ian. 7-Baker at O. Henry 0. Henry Quintet Stops Baker The O. Henry basketball squad came from behind to beat the Baker Bucks 30-27. Baker started off with a boom and at the end of the first quarter they led lU-8. During the second period things settled down as both teams were hitting Well. At the half time the Baker five led l8-l5. The third period was in the hands of the Mustangs as they put six points through the hoop to Baker's three. The fourth and final quarter was close all the way, but O. Henry took advantage of some breaks and took a 30 to 27 lead. They started a freeze as the Whistle sounded. SCORING Points . . 9 Wilkinson ...........,...... ....,,., Melber ,.i.,,, ..,,.,,, GIRLS' SPORTS The girls gym classes have just finished a unit in tumbling and are now starting to play soccer. lt sometimes gets pretty cold 'out on that field but the girls go right ahead playing. lt also happens sometimes that Miss Thigpen plays on the side that is losing. Don't Worry, they lose some- times, too. SPRING TRAINING K Spring training at McCallum and probably at the other High Schools Will start about the rnid- dle of February, so all you boys who might Want 'to try out for the football team nextryear should be thinking about it. ' History of Basketball . Complete Beauty Service -ul T. ff with Butter Krust Bread! 3 fThufS-7 I Olguln .......... ,.,,.... 2 The modern game of Basketball l?lSg2-U'l-H- ef Baker Moberg .......,...............,..,.....,. 8 was invented in l89l by Iames EI?-D 15-Baker at Mccguum A Benner ........................,........... 5 lgvlglrlsrigitlhegxrg Acggoctilie Tl- A . . ' . ' U 19-3 k F tion College in Spr1ngf1eld,,Mass. fgwflesj G er Open A1'S?le?KETBAu' LINEUI5 5 He wanted to develop an indoor Ian, 21-School for Deaf at Baker G er ---'-'---- - '-'-'-- '--' O' sport for the winter months when CThur.t Df31bertMOberg A ' NO-10 football, soccer, and other out- lCiI'1. 28-BC1lCGI' Gi Allflfl ggcriolggglggy -'-'- Ig 2' door games could not be played. Irhuo ---H----e ---'--eeA - - hb 14 II 'tht' Feb? 2-Travis at Baker Ierry Marx .............. ......... N o. 13 3215122139 Cggriigsiuglsvfheli hi? Guest ' Roger Wilkinson ---- - ------ N Q14 physical education classes were SGCOIICI ROl1I'1d ' Frank Blggmquigt .----,--,.,----, NQ15 held Then he divided his Class Feb. Henry at BCilC91 D011 Fincher -,-A---'..-'-- ----,,--, N O. into 'two Sections or fecms and gftfh-Baker at U51-1, gfm Olgulgn 1 '4 ' ' N O' Q7 started a contest' between itheni'-f fTueS', B D Gini? ugultf ------ -------- N O' 13 The object of the game was te See, Feb, ll-Mccqlluim C1tBqker ISV1 Ke irk -'----'----' --------- ISI O' 20 which side could toss a soccer gl'hgr.J16 B k TGC-iggrz Y 's 4-s--'- N 2' 21 ball 'into the peach basket most 9 - -- C1 GF-013911 ' ' o '4 ' ' ' often. CT .P ' Feld? l8-Baker at School for Deaf gl M,,, 5 if - CTh .n I , I, - Febll 23-Allan at Baker ll! Varslliy Drug ' KTUSS-9 , ll y l I.. v. BLOMQUIST Feb. 25TBGkeI' at TFUVIS W gt ACI-Q55 from Greggry Gym fThuf'l III E +2I I -ll? 805 Congress as 5 SALES SERVICE ' Maytag There'se good eating ahead . N., Peterson Applicance Center 3915 GUADALUPE ST. .W Quin! if Iaus. PI-I. s-vom nes. PH. s-Ioaa PHONE 55-3221 GM fnfgwhf I-I .I P If Ia I Sh e im-'ff , y e ar eal-I Y OP fIIf2.'n'j?',Q 1 1 QLIN J .. , 12. -1l41ie,9'w-Q11 41 .sg-e,,.LA--rE 1-Lf,LfI.X, TLZXIKS