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

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THE BAKER ROCKET VOL. V ISSUE V BAKER IUNIOR I-HGH SCHOOL FEB. '54 SCHOOLS MARK 100th BIRTHDAY F.H.A. AIMS HIGH FOR BETTER LIVING What is the F. H. A.? Pupils who study homemaking in junior and senior high school have the privilege to be in the Future Homemakers of America. This is a National Organization. The purposes of the F.H.A. is: l. To promote a growing ap- preciation of the joys and satisfac- tion of homemaking. 2. To emphasize the importance of worthy home membership. 3. To encourage democracy in home and community life. 4. To work for good home and family life for all. 5. To promote international good will. 6. To foster the development of creative leadership in home and community life. 7. To provide wholesome in- dividual and group recreation. 8. To further interest in home economics. The F.H.A. works on degrees just like the F.F.A. lt has four degrees. The first degree is junior, second is Chapter, third is State, fourth is National. Girls that are working on their junior Degree are as follows: Bar- bara Brill, Paula Casey, Margaret Mclieehan, Sue Rodgers, Flo See- katz, Nancy Kelly and Pat Tumey. PRIMARY NEWS Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you will be seen many times in the first, second, and third grades. In these grades there is going to be a big valentine box and maybe a party in each room. They aren't forgetting to study the famous peoples' birthdays, such as George Washington, and Abraham Lin- coln. l'd say they are going to have quite a time in the month of February. Looking for cu Valentine? Wiley Baker found his in the person of Kay La Grone. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY lt's really hard to say exactly why we send valentines and tokens of affection on the day, which is the anniversary of good Bishop Valentine's death. There is certainly nothing in the saintly Bishop's life that could account for such a custom. We're sure that his death has nothing to do with Valentine Day, except that it occurred about the fourteenth of February. The most probable explanation of this holiday is that it is a sur- vival of an old Roman festival cal- led Lupercalia. lt is not a very serious day, but so many pretty customs have come to be associa- ted with it that we all enjoy the day, no matter what its origin, and we're sure no one ever grows too old to like a valentine. NEW SCHOOL OPENS February lst a new elemen- tary school was opened. This school is called Margaret Riley. Dr. D. Richard Bowles is super- visor. Sixty students in the area of North of 47th and East of Lamar attend this school. Sunday, january 31, 1954 is the official day making the 100th an- niversary of the bill authorizing free public education. The week of March l-6 is public school week in Texas. Austin schools have set aside this week for their own centennial celebration. During the week they hope to have pub- lic exhibits of the schools work in store windows. March 5, a school holiday, will start with a parade. All junior highs, including Baker, and the high schools will have bands marching in it. The parade will consist of marching bands and floats from various schools. Dif- ferent school clubs can have floats. The floats will represent things done in class rooms. The four high schools, McCallum, Aus- tin, Anderson, and Travis will have pageants on the night ot March 5th. The pageants will show progress and history of Texas schools. Exhibits will be opened in the cafeterias of the four high schools at 2:00 P.M. Friday afternoon. MID-TERMS LEAVE THEIR MARK Gee, l'm so sorry. Who was it? Shall l send flowers? No, no one died: there isn't any funeral. lt's just the results of those mid- term exams. Those things are enough to drive you batty. The sad, lost, hopeless look on the faces of the kids who failed is simply terrible. And on top of the exams comes report cards. But even as dumb as the mid- terms make you feel, the fact re- mains that the hardest part is still ahead of you, the FINALS. Relax, but just for a minute, and catch your breath-then start preparing yourself for the last chance. Only three months till then. Gee whiz, our troubles never seem to end!

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PAGE SIX TH KE ET HOMEMAKING Have you often wondered how Mrs. Harville grades her home- making students? First of all they discuss what they are going to do and they make preparation for the activity. She grades them on the way they cooperate and the honest effort they put out in doing it. Then they set up stand- ads on how the finished product should turn out. After they have finished the project they discuss whether it was a success or a flop, lf it flopped they try to find out why. Mrs. Harville said she does not grade off if the finished product was a flop. When the class needs groceries, first of all they make out a gro- cery list and then each group sends one student to the store for the groceries. The Fl-l.A. girls in Baker are having a supper and style show this month. The ninth grade will serve and the eighth grade will model the clothes they have made. lf you were at the Christmas formal you were probably blinded by a bright light. lf you were, and you looked really close you prob- ably saw Mrs. l-larville behind the bright lights holding a camera taking pictures of some of the students dancing and walking toward her. Some of the pictures that were taken of the dance have been on display on the bulletin board in front of the office. Mrs. I-larville has also been showing the movie that she took at the dance to her homemaking classes and Mrs. Baker's 4th period 9th grade social studies class has seen it, too. E BA R Rock BAND I, II, III Directing the Baker Concert Band is Mr. Clinton A. Mathews. Mr. Mathews is a wonderful bandleader and knows what he is doing. Band lll under the direc- tion of Mr. Mathews is practicing every day for a concert for par- ents in February. They have elected officers which are as fol- lows: President-Ann Baldwing Vice- President-Arthur Chesterg Secre- tary-Roger Wilkinsong and Ser- geant of Arms-Wiley Wyman. The band has done its best for the school. We are very proud of our band and bandleader. NO. I NO. 2 4025 GUADALUPE 405V2 EAST 48TH PHONE 53-3220 PHONE 53-40I7 RAILSBACK-Flowers Flowers For A11 Occasions WIRED-PHONED-DELIVERED ANYWHERE Charles-Minnie Railsback Night Ph. 5-580l MATH Mr. Pine's ninth grades are studying units on business prob- lems and income taxes. The algebra class is learning to multiply and divide sign num- bers. The eighth grade is studying graphs and introduction to geo- metry. Mrs. Walden's seventh grade has been studying decimals and are beginning percents. The Math Club that was sup- posed to be organized will be started around the beginning of the second term. There will be a number contest put on by the lnterscholastic League. There will probably be one student from the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades to compete. TYPEWRITING NEWS ln Miss Acklin's typing classes the students are progressing in typewriting. ln the speed drills they have had Georgia Folsing is the fastest on the five minute speed drill with 61 words per minute. Carolyn Crider is the fast- est on the one minute speed drill with 63 words per minute. ln the 8th grade Barbara Booker has the most points. Craig Haydon has the most points in the 9th grade. Compliments of l HOME STEAM LAUNDRY l4'Ih and Red River Phone 8-2586 Hyde Parlc Barber Shop Deluxe Shine at 4021 Guadalupe Dlfepp r' GDR! Svnilln The Soutl1's Unique Restaurant and Gift Shop Ibth AND GUADALUPE Phono 8-432I Hyde Park Pharmacy SCHOOL SUPPLIES Let Us Fill Your Prescription 4OI7 Guaclaupe Hyde Park Hardware HARDWARE - SPORTING GOODS Sherwin-Williams Pain-I' 4I2I Guadalupe Phone 5-3225 it 30' ,f,,,,,,..,,.iw,,,,,,-' Norm me Paulinslils Beauty WM, CALCASIEU 4 W 511 5 Da as Highway Pl- 53-5355

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PAGE! TWO THE BAK-ER ROCKET YEARBOOK TIME lts getting close to that time. What time? Time for the year- books of course. The journalism class is now making preparations for publishing the yearbooks. The yearbook will consist of pictures upon pictures, together with the copies of the school paper bound. The ninth grade will have to supply their own individual pic- tures. The staff requests that you save one of your school pictures for that purpose. LasT IN LINE.. I-MAIV WX' Il. ' IQ .wo O4 'tim O1 bQ P ' 22 I Ll-4 ,..-M I' . I for lb V is . J T fn 53 B vhs gif 'Z 8 . bf? fat . rg . tl I iz? Q I 7X It I X fi 1 Rocket Stuff Editor-in-chief .......... Laneta Stefka Asst. Editor ......., jerry 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, Irving Cutter, Alice Dawson, Ella Dean Franks, Barbara G-rice, Gerald Heath, Delores Henderson, Les- ter Lang, Avis McFarland, Yvonne Platt, Nancy Ramm, Elizabeth Schwab, Mary Schwartz, Lawanda Thurman, Roger Wilkinson, Dee Dee Williams. IN A NUTSHELL Are you in a nutshell? Have you ever asked yourself this ques- tion? First of all, let's see what this question means. This nutshell might mean that you are so busy doing things for yourself that you are too busy to worry about anybody else. You are so worried about yourself that you do not venture out any far- ther into life than you have to. You might say living in a nut- shell is that you and a group of your friends don't venture out into the world. You and your friends confine yourselves and don't as- sociate with anybody else. You can get a lot more ideas from the world if you will only go out and find them by talking to new friends and acquaintances. We could interpret, Are you in a nutshell? by your skin asking is a hard nutshell, and not letting anything penetrate it. You should let your skin absorb new ideas so you will have a broad knowl- edge of everything that is going on about you in the vast world about us. lf you are like one of the examples that have been men- tioned above, try to come out of your nutshell and get with the crowd. 1 Tell Your Parents To Join The P.T.A. Do your parents attend the P.T.A. meetings? Notices are sent out the second Tuesday of every month to inform your parents of the meetings that evening. The cost of joining is just fifty cents a member. lf your parents have not been attending the meetings, get them to do so. All parents should belong to the P.T.A. THINGS THAT ARE WORTH DOING ARE WORTH DOING RIGHT Things that are worth doing are worth doing right! Surely you have heard these words repeated over and over to you by your parents. l-lere's your chance to turn the tables. Do your parents pay their poll tax? lt wasn't too many years ago that the United States fought long hard fight to gain their independence. One of the reasons they wanted their in- dependence is because they wan- ted the right to vote. Now that we have it, some people just shrug and say, Let somebody else do it. lf we all had that outlook it wouldn't be two years until the communists and various capital- istic minorities would have our country right in their hands. People in many countries do not have the privilege of voting. So if earning the right to vote was worth doing, let's all show our folks that we do take an interest in the Democratic way and ask them if they have paid their poll tax and are planning to vote. Let's do it right! Do You Appreciate Eur Country? This may seem a rather odd question but think about it for a minute. Most people go to public school, watch television, or go to see a movie without thinking how lucky we are to have them. For a poor family in Korea, ice cream would seem a great delicacy, but here we take it for granted. For a poor child in lndia, a free school would seem like a dream, but in America we actually pretend to hate it. GIRLS . . . BUTTREY'S ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL OF THE EXCITING FIGURE- FLATTERING TEENA PAGE DRESSES. Looking Forward To See You TEEN SHOP 3rdF1oor F.