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

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THE BAKER ROCKET PAGE FIVE 9TH GRADE VACATION PLANS UNDERWAY What will you be doing this summer? Going swimming? Go- ing on a trip? Going to spend lei- sure hours at your favorite soda fountain? Or are you just going to lounge at home? The following students seem to be well occu- pied: Margie johnson-will go to Miami, Florida to swim and visit jazz bands. fWonder ii she has an extra ticketj Iohn Beard-Is going to a camp meeting at Camp Ben McCul- lough. CShould be fun.j Dean Franks-will spend her time at Lake Charles, Louisiana visiting relatives. NINTH GRADERS SAY FAREWELL Ah, sweet sorrow. This phrase seems to fit our present ninth graders for the time has come to leave dear ole Baker. I learned as I scouted about that not all want to leave, so there are two different groups-- The Can't Hardly Wait Club and the I don't Wanna Club. Here are some of our seniors opinions of leaving. Ianelle Cain Baker's nice and I hate to leave it. Al Schaffer- I'm glad that I'm finally getting out. Liz Schwab Boo Hoo. Charles Arnold- I don't like to go. LaWanda Thurman-- I feel like I'm losing an old friend. Wiley Wyman-Baker is like my home and I don't want to leave. Ioyce Berry- I'm looking for- ward to next year, but I have en- joyed this school year. David Melber- It won't be bad going to McCallum, but I don't exactly rejoice. Carol Wycoff-My plans are to get a steady boyfriend. CG-ood Luck.j And I want to make new friends as well as the ones I have. Virginia Wann-I'Regrets that there aren't enough cute boys but everything else is just fine. Here are some of our plans for next year: Sherry Bailey-My plans at McCallum are to make friends and be happy. johnny Sherrill-I am going to make a lot of friends and try to get in the dramatic club. Bertha Ingram-is going to ------ Corpus Christi for a long swim in WE HATE T0 SEE PERFECT GIRL FQR the Gulf of Mexico. iAnd we YOU LEAVE mean km , 9TH GRADE g' By Charlotte Currier and Dee Dee 1. HGir,MCmhG Smith ANTI CCIVGII-PIOIHS to 90 to the Williams 2. Face-Barbara Grice Carlsbad Cavern. iLucky girl, Say kids, have you given it a 3, Eyes-Wqndq Thurman eh?j thought? about the ninth grade 4. Ears-Ioan Beard . . . . eaving. suppose many o you 5. No -L' S h b Vlcfof Mokry-IS gomg to Swim have been thinking about this for 6. Mojih-Chafloflg White and sleep all day long. CNot in . . , the Water, quite a bit because some of us 7. Teeth-Carol Wycoff ' I will be having our best friends 8. Smile-Nancy Hamm V No matter what you will be do- leqving us. Here are Cl few 9, Hands-Ann Cowen :Sgt 31: yoii1fhNg3IrCGif1OIi1 V2?fI1OP9 opgiionsh if some of the seventh 10. Figure Nancy Dement u W1 e OG S un- OID Sig t ers. ll. Legs-Bonnie Platt ANS To CBOSSWORE- U DONNIE TEXV-sayg we arielos- 12. Complexion-Margie Iohn- WEB mg some mig ty goo peop e. son PUZZLE ON PAGE 8 LAMAR ANDERSON-he does l3. Athlete--Carolyn Crider . EV,2.fi H yi H L-Ig' not like it, but he says it gives 14. Personality-Laneta Stefka F E E PTT E I E ff, E, them a better chance with the IPI' 2 KH VA l L. 5' 9if1S- SALES SERVICE S AI N Q U m f rg L 9 T g CAROL MOORE- I don't want Maytag I m m g, . Q them to leave, especially one , pin Tai 5 . 0 R N particular boy-I' Peterson Appliance Center IR NU IVI ' Q L E 5 L j jg BETTY GREEN- I hate to see 3915 GUADALUPE ST- I L .5 S f A S H L E them go. sus. PH. 5-vom Res. PH. 5-lose E V I C T' D ffl E p It 'if L E D Sf PAUL H FRIEDRICH' - - 1 I r VV 1 s m -Egg '.eyV s - The Hitchin Post VS YE A IV . . P 'R E1 m E D IIELSRJEZ' Where the cuisine of the South meets E I ,I . ' ' that fth West LQ 1 iff I? S 2 ' E E D E I Austin, Texas o 8 IOII Lamar Blvd. me Bus H su-1 ninwrgu B K R' m' HAMILTON ELECTRIC WURKS l3D6 Red River Delco Motor Distributors D o Belts Ditributors ayt n s Motor Rebuilding and Repair Carbozite Protective Coating Distributors May We Be Your Druggist TOWER DRUG 2807 SAN JACINTO Phone 8-4644 Varsity Drug L. V. BLOMQUIST Across from Gregory Gym III East 2lst

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PAGE FOUR THE BAKER ROCKET Gllazn Hrnphvrg 1954 CLASS PROPHECY E The Baker Seniors of 1954 pro- phesy that: The nation will soon be well supplied with secretaries because we give them Barbara Brill, Paula Casey, Dennie Dement Cshe might later turn P. E. teacherl, Ncmcy Dement, Georgia Foelsing, Kathy Giddens, Barbara Grice, Io Roye Herber, Helen Herrin, Saundra Hoskins, Liz Schwab, Betty Voight, Barbara Wilder and Carol Wycoff for that magnimous pro- fession. By either l958 or l959 the De- troit Lions will have a winning streak in the person of Wiley Wy- man. Somewhere along that time the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cleveland Indians will be neck and neck in the world series with David Melber on the Cardinals and Don Renner on the Indians. Gerald Heath and Delbert Mo- berg will be right up in the big leagues too but we don't know which team. Our air force will prosper in a few years when Roger Wilkinson, Wilson Iensen, Lester Lang, and Curtis Conrad join, and Bill Young designs the planes for them to pilot. Ella Dean Franks and JoAnn Neel will also take to the air as stewardesses. If you get sick you'll have somebody to go to because We prophesy that Irving Cutter will be a doctor, Ann Cavett will be a psychiatrist, Ioan Beard will be a lab technician, Ioyce Berry, Martha Smith, and Wanda Thur- man will be nurses. Musicians from Baker will be: Singers: Alice Dawson, Delores Henderson, and Yvonne Platt, Concert violinist Shirley Rowland. We predict that Melvin Daily and Roger Fleet will achieve their lifelong ambition of passing to the lUth grade. Linda Cox, Carolyn Foelks, Flo Seekatz, Patsy Martinez, Virginia and Tink West will settle to the peacefulC?l task of Wann, down being housewives. don't prophesy, we con- We demn Carolyn Crider and Cecile Stagner Cas P. E. teachersl, Iimmy Doherty Cstudying law at AGCMJ, Bertha Ingram Cgoing to business schooll, Tippa Scott fstudying law at U. of TJ, and Irene Wag- ner and Charlotte White Calso Collegel to more school. Gee, you poor souls. Criminals fwill shudder when they hear the name of F.B.I. agents Sam Olgin and Iohnny Sherrill. Various other Bakerites pursu- ing various other occupations are: Ann Baldwin and Sue Rodgers who will be mission workers, Ia- nelle Cain, who will be a typist or librarian four crystal ball was a little cloudy so we couldn't be surel, Roger Campbell who will be a comedian the hopes to someday be as good as Mr. Pinel. Viress Doyle who will live on a horse ranch and raise-guess what?--horses, Wayne Fickel who will work with the Shell Oil Com- pany at Houston, Craig Haydon who will be a designing engineer, Henry Hodges who wil be a com- mercial artist, Ioyce Schmidt who will be a telephone operator, Iames Spaw who wil be a con- struction engineer, Donnie Martin Palmer who will be an interior decorator and Leon Miears who will be a rancher. Of course, there are some peo- ple who really won't amount to much like Richard Wolfe who will only be a millionaire and have a Cadillac and a Iaguar to match each of his 300 suits, Nancy Ramm who will marry a millionaire and travel all over the world and eat every kind of food there isp and Raymond Bohls and Ierry Marx who will be such successful busi- nessmen that they will have plenty of time off to go fishing. There are a few other things that some Bakerites will do: Clar- ence Pruitt will make McCallum's lloasketball team, Ierry Scarbor- ough will be the friendliest enemy in the world, Margaret Laybourn will be an Old Maid fdon't quote usl, Nelda Mangham will see every state in the union before she's 2l CI don't see anything wrong with the biggest and bes- testi, Bennie Miller will stay out of trouble fat least for a whilel, Gayle Parr will see Hawaii and France, Thomas Flowers will be- come president of the I.F.F.L. Cln- ternational Federation of Free Loadersl, Sherry Bailey will grow to be 5' tall, and Martha Sherrill will make a complete collection of diamond rings set in platinum itat chancel. Last, but certainly not least, Arthur Chester will Cand I quotel never imagine himself not to be otherwise than what it might ap- pear to others that what he was or might have been was not other- wise than what he had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. fThanks to Mr. who will be a mechanic, Harriet Lewis Cm-1-011.5 cEnd quote., Q EV Hyde Park Hardware fuefyni E ll ' tij 1-5 HARDWARE - sPoRTlNe eooos TELEPHONE 6.5, ,O l AV4 Sherwin-Williams Paint FEMININE FASHIONS 395 Congress 4l2l Guadalupe Phone 5-3225 2904 Guadalupe Austin. Texas Ro Cox Service . . . Y ' 30' North Side Phone 5-9421 E 670' Your Friends sin I ' D I Weftznd E smfrrs I 42fdy8- D5-Zi ea er D 'i H'g a

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3 PAGE SiX THE BAKER ROCKET - Perronvzlitzkf - err l ' this month are Lawanda Thurman and Johnny Sherrill. 9th GRADE GIRL PERSONALITY By Nancy Ramm Wow! Some gal! Who are we talking about? Well, now l'll just tell ya. That gal we're talking about is our ninth grade person- ality for this month, Lawanda Thurman. Now l'll give you a few of her vital statistics. She is 5' 5 tall, weighs 100 pounds, and has blue eyes and brown hair. She likes swimming, Mexican food, the song Wanted , and Eddie Fisher. She also favors the colors green, white, and blue, and is partial to gym and Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Wal- den. When you ask her what she thinks of Baker, she'll nearly al- ways reply, Oh I love it! And boys, here's the best news of all, she doesn't like any special boy. By the way, her phone number is 53-1106. 9th GRADE BOY PERSONALITY lnto our personality spotlight steps 134 lbs. of Iohnny Sherrill. This brown hair and brown eyed boy just loves fried chicken. All of his 5' 5V2 are packed with love for baseball, Dragnet, and Western Cavalcade. Iohnny came into the world 14 years ago, October 18, 1939. Be- fore coming to Baker he attended Rosedale for 6 years. Some of his favorites are: color-blue, teach- ers--Miss Cole and Mrs. Conradtp classes-speech and gym: song- Make Love to Me by Patti Page. Sorry girls his attention is drawn towards Barbara Grice. - BAKER HAS ONE LESS BACHELOR Mr. Dale McLemore gave up his freedom on Thursday when he married Miss Pat Reaves, grad- uate of Austin High and senior of the University of Texas. Mr. McLemore who teaches 7th, Sth, and 9th grade social studies and sponsors chess and gymnastic clubs is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Texas. The students and faculty of Baker certainly wish he and his bride all the happiness in the world. DID YOU KNOW? At this time, most students are thinking of long lazy summer months. But did you know that in England, instead of having one three-month vacation, they get three one-month vacations. One is at Easter, one at Christmas, and one is in the summer. Would you rather have three onewpnth va- cations, or one three-month one? There's good eating ahead '1.TL gqxkwth-:fvik ,A 1 QW Q J MWF' 5 we as -M t Y' 'f' vowlf' l ,Lx 2 A:,..,?, I A N ,12 with Butter Krust Bread! THE SPONSOR SPEAKS My first year with the paper has been a real experience in co- operation, learning, and pleasant association. l believe I speak for the staff when l express a sincere thanks to the student body for your support and help. THE ROCKET is really yoursg the staff as a group has worked hard to highlight your activities and inter- pret them to your community in a form that you can be proud ot and to prepare a yearbook that you will cherish. Surely none of our efforts have been perfect, but future staffs face a real challenge in making a comparable progress. PERFECT BOY FOR 9TH GRADE l . Hair-Victor Mokery 2. Face-Wanye Fickel 3. Eyes-lohn Thompson 4. Ears-Thomas Flowers 5. Nose-Gerry Heath 6. Mouth-Roger Wilkinson 7. Teeth-Delbert Moberg 8. Smile-Iohnny Sherrill ' 9. Hands-Gayle Parr lU. Physio-Wiley Wyman ll. Legs-Ierry Marx l2. Complexion - Charles Ar- nold l3. Athlete-Don Renner 14. Personality-Sam Olguin. Rocket Staff Editor-in-chief .......... Laneta Stefka Asst. Editor ........ Ierry 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 Grice, Gerald Heath, Delores Henderson, Les- ter Lang, Avis McFarland, Yvonne Platt, Nancy Ramm, lizabeth Schwab, Mary hwartz, Lawanda Thurman, Roger Wilkinson, Dee Dee Williams. Sponsor-Mrs. Letha Conradt. 3