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

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B .E6l1 J'0f.B6lk6p VOL. V ISSUE VII BAKER IUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL APRIL '54 Easter, The Holy Time By Ann Baldwin A heavy cross, a crown of thorns, a home spun robe, a new lite, and the individual named Iesus, all are a part of the Sacred Easter. Bunnies, eggs, baskets, and a new bonnet are what many people think of when they're re- minded of Easter. Surely the first Easter was a happy one. The Master's friends had come to his grave to pay homage to what they thought was a dead prophet. Instead of finding a body wrapped in soft cloth, there was an angel awaiting them. Christ had risen and had become, to humans, a Risen Sav- iour instead of a dead prophet. Perhaps the youth are prone to forget the real reason for Easter. Daniel Webster says this about Easter: A Sunday between March Z1 and April 26 set apart in the ecclesiastical calendar for com- memorating the resurrection of Christ. In that definition there is nothing said about bunnies and eggs. The only time some people even see What's on the other side ot the church door is on Easter morning. Then all they go for, it seems, is to show off their new Spring frocks. TICKET SALES HALTED Ticket sales for the Baker Tunior High Spring Festival halted at ten o'clock February 19, 1954. Selling the most tickets was Miss Cole's advisory for the Iunior High, and for the elementary Miss Rumme-l's room sold the most. Leading in the individual con- test was Allan Rogers selling 153 tickets from Miss Cole's advisory. 2nd place went to Terry Owen from Miss Gough's 6-l class who sold 143 tickets. Allan received S500 for being top seller and Terry got 32.50 for being second. Not bad, huh? xl 5791 Gm? S Q, 1 41 f if E I 1423? 9 I l Q I, '7' I 4 . I Q 8 I ' ' ltxl 57 A. LX7 r fl T J J, ' - MARYQQIYH Is the real Sacred Easter to re- turn? Supposedly the only way to get back the true meaning of Easter is to leave some of these minor things out. A child that is brought up to think only of Easter eggs, new shoes, and such will probably never receive the mean- ing of Easter, the Holy time. A CHlLD'S EASTER For a long time people have celebrated Easter. The children celebrate Easter by hunting Eas- ter Eggs that the Easter Bunny has left. Small children believe that the Easter Rabbit comes during the night when they are asleep and hides eggs in the grass. Sunday morning they get up and have an Easter Egg Hunt. It's wonderful to see the joy they get out of hunting eggs. After the hunt comes services at church which gives the child the true meaning of Easter. All this has long been a part of Easter and will be for years to come. HERE COME THE GALS Fort Worth, here we come!! This is the cry of two happy, excited girls. The girls are representing Baker's F.H.A. Chapter at Fort Worth. There were quite a few gals nominated and each one had to be working on a l:'.H.A. degree and had to have a B average in all her subjects. After the list of girls was made, a check sheet for each girl was given to all her teachers. On the sheet the teacher was to check whether the student was excellent, good or fair in meeting the qualifications. Listed on this check sheet were: general attitude in class, dependability, citizenship, and ability to repre- sent Baker School well. The ninth and the eighth grade representa- tives were chosen who had the highest averages on the check sheets. Representing the ninth grade is Laneta Stefka and for the eighth grade Ianice Kuhn. HOW DID THE APRIL FOOLERS GET YOU? The April Foolers did an effi- cient job. Here are some things that happened. Toyce Berry- Someone told me I had bubble gum on the back of my skirt. Of course I had to look. Martha Sherrill- Some of the girls hid my gym suit. What a predicament to be in. Charlotte Currier - Someone told me that my petticoat was showing. I hope most of you were as lucky as these were. Lucky? Well, nothing really horrible happened. RUSSELL SPEAKS AT TEA David Russell, Poet Laureate of Texas, spoke at a tea held at the home of Mrs. Norma Lynn Scott CPresident of the English Club and teacher of English at McC'al1urnl, 3001 Beverly Road, at 7:30 P. M., March 26. The tea was sponsored jointly by the Poetry Society of Austin and the English Club of Austin.

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PAGE SIX THE BAKER ROCKET lor I took the .45 and he took the six-gun and I got to Boot Hill before himl By Martha Io Sherrill Slowly the tall Texan ambeled down the main street of Boot Hill. As he walked his hands swung close to his guns. This was the town-he had to protect it-that was his job-he was sheriff. She- riff Schmo Thursday was working the day watch out of county jail. He had heard rumors that the most vicious, desperate outlaw in Texas was in town and Schmo was a'hankerin' to meet him and maybe get his autograph. The outlaw's name was Lord Fauntle- roy Tudor. Suddenly, Schmo heard some- one calling his name. He turned. lt was Beuuulah Bell, his latest heart throb. Beuuulah Bell came running up to him crying, Schmo, Schmo, get outta town. Fauntleroy is here and he's out to get you all. Run, :run. Schmo looked at Beuu- lah Bell and said, Gal, Ah ain't going to run from nobody, not even fshudderl Fauntleroyf' From down the street came shouts and everyone began to run for cover Ceveryone except Schmo, Roy Cox Service Station Phone 5-942l Your Friendly Sinclair Dealer 43rd 8: Duval flplil Evruillr The South's Unique Restaurant and Gift Shop I6th AND GUADALUPE Phone 8-432I GROCERY - MARKET 3035 Guadalupe Ai! X. Q Cr,-Fl I I 31-ff 5 'm .f3Tif.21:.'25,'fl'E?,'f.J::':t:.'z2:5' 'Y' Jiri' and Beuuulah Bell who wanted to be with Schmo to the last.J Then, as Fauntleroy, his long curls bob- bing, came into full view on the now almost deserted main street of Boot Hill, Schino turned to Beuulah Bell and said sadly, Ah told you ah wouldn't run from no man an' Ah ain't a gonna but Ah suddenly feel in the need of that their vacation that the town prom- ised me and Ah think Ah'1l take it now . . . Goodbye. As he turned, Beuuulah Bell grabbed his arm and cried out, PLEASE PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Ah hate to tell you now but it's too late. Fauntelroy is right be- hind you. But be brave, tell him all you want is the facts. But Ah already got the facts, ma'am, and the fact is Fauntleroy wants to kill me. But Ah'll be brave, said Schrno as he turned, ' Ah'll walk right up to him and uh ...............,,... and Ah'll ask which way out ot town, finished Schmo as he looked down the barrels of two six-shooters. Cto be continuedl Loolr Your Best For School Days SPEIR BEAUTY SHOP IOI WEST 5th The CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK in Austin Member F.D.l.C. U.S. Government Depository AVE. B GROCERY Where All Neighbors Trade 4403 Ave. B PHONE 53-392l Dlfep ' 'ffm WW 'l 7 North sta, 30' CALCASIEU I Dallas Highway 570 West 2nd ga--nf, - dm-su nn ullutilluun nmnam-.leur manual umnus' nr :alumina

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PAGE TWO THE BAKER ROCKET THE SANDS OF TIME By Arthur Chester . . . And, departing, leave be- hind us Footprints on the sands of time. Quickly! l-low many people can you think of that are famous? Five is fair, lU is good, and l5 is excel- lent. Most of these started out as no great person, but all were am- bitious enough to pass up others. Are you one who passes or one who gets passed? Will you do something you can be remem- bered for? We seem to waste our time away And find, when life has gone, We have not played the part of queen But merely that of pawn. What about you? Will you leave your footprints on the sands of time? BUTTONS ON BAKERITES Do you know the meaning of loyalty? The true meaning of the word is faithfulness and there are quite a number of Baker boys who are really loyal. lt seems almost every time Baker buttons are be- ing sold Walter Wyman, Bill Foel- sing, and Iohn Thompson can be seen buying them. The students of Baker get a free newspaper and should be glad to help a lit- tle on the school paper. We would like to thank all the people in Baker who have bought Baker buttons. RED CROSS FORMS JUNIOR COUNCIL The Austin Red Cross Chapter is sponsoring the organization of a Iunior Bed Cross City Council which is made up of representa- tives from all the junior high and senior high schools in Austin. Mike Carmichael, a former mem- ber of the council in Dallas Know attending McCallumD, is mainly responsible for the primary organ- ization of the Austin council. Through the cooperation of the Bed Cross and the help of Mrs. Higgins the first meeting was on February l3 and every two weeks thereafter. Representing Baker at these meetings will be representative Martha Sheill and alternate Char- lotte Griffith. Follow cz Good Example Not long ago something startled me. l walked into a typical class- room full of typical students and found the room unusually quiet. The quietness didn't bother me for once in a while kids are quiet. What did bother me was that none of those students were chewing gum. That really is unusual! This is one of the most unusual experiences l've had. lt puzzled me. Normally you find at least one student chewing gum but in this classroom not even one stu- dent was. l rushed out to see if chewing gum was still sold and of course found out it was. l thought then that l was just seeing things but after going back to the class l found out l wasn't. That afternoon I began investi- gating this unusual happening. As a last resort l asked a student of the class, whom l know exceed- ingly well and who is a person Banc! Presents Burn Dance! What a time was had! Food! Food! Food! Dance! Dance! Dance! Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! Fun! Thank you, Baker Band, for the exciting, wonderful, marvelous night! Anyone miss it? Poor you! flf you did.J There was a real- true hillbilly band and square dancing and just plain dancing and-oh, eats. All plump people such as Cecille Stagner, Brucie Cavett, and Ann Baldwin will have to diet for the next month to make up for all they ate. Congratulations to the most valuable boy and girl band mem- bers! The girl was Ann Baldwin, and the boy was Roger Wilkinson. UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE Lizabeth S c h w a b-with her hair out of place. lanice Kuhn-not neat. Allen Rogers-without Charles Dodson and Walter Dollar. Sandy Hitchcock-with a poodle cut. Gerald Heath-tall and dark. Clarence Pruitt and Leon Meiars -not altogether. Sue King-without those little freckles on her nose! who can't resist chewing gum. She informed me that when you are caught chewing gum in that class lO points are taken off the grade. Many students couldn't afford this so they abandoned gum. Now they are used to the idea and the teacher doesn't worry about see- ing a gum chewer. Maybe it would be better for some of the other students to abandon gum chewing, grades might be higher. As the saying goes there is a time and place for everything. The time for chewing gum isn't during class and the place isn't school. YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER People are like books. As we ignore a book with a dull title and cover, we ignore a person that doesn't seem to be interesting. But often if we read the book that seems to be uninteresting, to our delightful surprise, we find it to be far from dull. So be it with people. Names and faces aren't every- thing, for its the person you look to for friendship. So, like a book, open and read the person before you judge. Rocket Staff Editor-in-chief ......t.., Laneta Stefka Asst. Editor ........ Ierry Scarborough Business Mgr ........... Arthur Chester News Editor .......... ...Carol Wyckoff Sports Editor .......... Delbert Moberg Feature Editor ......,... Martha Smith Copy Reader r......... Martha Sherrill Photographers ........ Wiley Wyman, Thomas Flowers, Ann Baldwin Reporters - Sherry Bailey, Ioyce Berry, Charlotte Currier, Irving Cutter, Alice Dawson, Ella Dean Franks, Barbara Grice, Gerald Heath, Delores Henderson, Les- ter Lang, Avis McFarland, Yvonne Platt, Nancy Ramm, Elizabeth Schwab, Mary Schwartz, Lawanda Thurman, Roger Wilkinson, Dee Dee Williams. Sponsor-Mrs. Letha Conradt.