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

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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

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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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THE BAKER ROCKET PAGE SEVEN Enjoying those good ol' sum- mer days after a game of tennis are lleft to rightl Martha Smith, Carolyn Crider, Nancy Dement, and Carol Wycoff. GIRLS P. E. With Cecille Stagner's team coming in for first place, Helen Herrin's second, and Carol Wy- ckoff's third, thus does girls' basketball season end. Now it's softball. With plenty of rule study and warmup practices behind them the girls have star- ted their softball tournaments. Be- fore going home in the afternoons, why don't you stay and see the games? They're loads of fun, 1 assure you. Loolc Your Best For School Days SPEIR BEAUTY SHOP IOI WEST 5th AUS-TEX Garden Supplies. Seed. Pet Supplies 6001 Burnet Rd. JUNIOR LEAGU ERS END ACTIVITY - Two playoff games told the story of the City Recreation De- partments Tunior League this week. All the games were played at University Tunior High Gym. The Allan Golds and the O. Henry Ponies wound up in a tie and met in a playoff game for the National League Championship which the Ponies won 26 to 25 in the last 30 seconds of the game. The University Eagles won the Championship Tin 'the American League with 12 wins and U losses. The two teams met Friday for the Championship and the University Eagles won 69 to 31. Terry Heath led both Baker teams and the American League with 122 points in ten games. TRACK MEET The city wide junior high track meet was held April 22, 23, 28, and 29, 1954. The six junior highs of Austin participated. Last year winner of the track meet was Uni- versity Tunior High. Baker won the fifteen year division in last year's track meet. At the starting of track the pos- sibilities for broad-jumping were Don Fincher, Timmy Kanetzky, Wiley Wyman, Alfred Baker, Don Renner, Terry Marx, Virgil Weise, Mauritz Soderlund, Bill Hamilton, and Roger Wilkinson. ln running there are Delbert Moberg, Don Fincher, Timmy Kanetzky, Terry Marx, David Bryant, Alfred Baker, Virgle Weise, Tommy Sherrill, E. C. Mowdy, and Wayne Fickle. ln high jumping we have Da- vid Melber, Roger Wilkinson, Sam Olguin, Terry Marx, Timmy Ka- netzky, Dian Renner, Terry Marx, Wayne Fickle, and Virgil Weise. CLASS WILL fContinued from Page 3l Claryce Smith, who needs it the most. Martha Smith-The honor of be- ing Valentine Sweetheart to Mary Sue Schwartz. Tames Spaw-Some brains to Bobby Allison. Cecille Stagner-My place as drum major and my sports ability to Brucie Cavett. Laneta Stefka-My big mouth to Emily Ann Ford. LaWanda Thurman--My ability to get into trouble to Mary Lynn Steger. Betty Voight-My hair to Dar- lene Dailey. Irene Wagner-My red hair to a future ninth grader. Virginia Wann-To my sister, Patsy Ruth Wann, my love for horses. Elray Wiese-My math books to Mr. Pine. Charlotte White-My taps to someone in the eighth grade. Barbara Wilder-I leave my sister something to accomplish that 1 didn't. Roger Wilkinson-My basket- ball ability to Ernest McCarver. Richard Wolfe--My job of be- ing manager to anyone. Carol Wycoff-My ability to pop off in Mr. Pine's class to Ta- nice Kuhn. Wiley Wyman--My job as stu- dent council president to Willie Thurman. Alta Young-My quietness to anyone who needs it. Bill Young-The ability to beat up Tohnny Sherrill and Tohn Thompson to Toe Prewitt. Given under our somewhat doubtful hand and seal this year A.D. 1954. THE NTNTH GRADE. 09121 5216112 AVE. B GROCERY The souiliz lgziughssslauranl Where All Neighbors Trade mb AND euAoAl.uPE A 4403 AW' B phone 3,4321 A PHONE 53-3921 BALDWIN X goltfsyfi - 4, H V Pianos and Organs 4' ' 'tif Ca itol Piano Co la dlflalmnlly gllop I : ' P ' Shop Us First or Last l5I8 Guadalupe Street l306 GUADALU PE ' ' L