Ben Blewett Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE B. B. TIGERS, MR. DE LA ROCHE, Adviser.

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B. B. T igers' Life History Long ago, one November morn, The B. B. Tigers first were borng Since then we've tried to do our best To beat the best and lead the rest, And now we're going to render you Some facts about our Tigers true. Sam Van Dyne. - if tr E are the B, B. Tigers ! You have probably heard of us before. Vi l Our motto is Beat the Bestv and that is what we strive to do. EE: gl We came over here November 10, 1919, about forty little newjays. We were assigned to our adviser, Miss Gaskill ' QMrs. Potter nowj. Then began our real history! Then began our name! We brought as much paper as we could, and when our name appeared in the daily bulletin we were in the seventh Heaven of delight. It was the same in Thrift Stamps, in one hundred per cent junior Life subscriptions, and in putting over our first Aud. session. We had the right kind of spirit, the spirit of true, Blewetts. At the beginning of our ninth grade world, Mr. De la Roche became our adviser. Our officers are as follows: President ,,......... Sidney Hiken Reporter .... -..... S am Van Dyne Vice-President . . .Virginia Beavers Congresswoman. ..Wi1helmina Grey Secretary .......... Mary. McGrath Congressman ......... john Darsie Asst. Secretary ...... Virginia Pipe Paper Monitor ..... Donald Cramer We are finishing ninth grade now and intend to go to Soldan in Septem- ber. I am sure wherever we go, what failures or successes we may have, we shall never forget Ben Blewett junior High School and the B. B. Tigers, the group always striving to Beat the Best. Virginia Block-9th Grade. 43

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l' mia 5' ,' N . ' students who will leave for Soldan in june, is the group called . , Miss Jones's Juniors. Their well known home room is 108. M-11, This group was made up almost entirely of new-comers to Junior last September. Indeed most of students were new-comers not only to the school but to St. Louis. junior welcomed these strangers with open arms and it was but a short time until they were numbered with the' schoo1's most loyal supporters. james McSherry hailed from Washington, D. C. james looked askance at things at first, but very soon recognized that Junior was in the front rank of schools. Richard Sparks and Lawrence Fraley came from Chicago. It was amusing to note, how we soon failed to hear in their speech, the expres- sion- Now in the Chicago schools - If we could lift the veil that hides the future, it would not be hard to imagine Rumsey Thompson holding forth in Grand Opera or Margaret North as a demure nun, serving as a missionary in some foreign country. How easy it is to picture Mary Glenn Mellor as a gentle hospital nurse or to see Homer Coulter and Arnold Smith surveying their broad acres in the coun- try or to feel that the name Babe Ruth will be supplanted by that of Littleton Rubenstein. We can almost see Jane Bergen presiding over a mathematics class in some high school. Arthur Albertstein and Edward Zimmer can well be imagined as leaders in some great orchestra. How natural it is to see Howard Stark and Frank 'Kern eloquently pleading cases for their clients be- fore spell-bound people in a court room. But why go through the whole list? The class is closely bound by bonds of friendship and the best wish that each member makes for the class is, that the future may have success in store for all of its members. Miss jones's juniors K: NE of the most interesting of the many interesting groups of f' ' ' ' El x i zfx A Glimpse Into the Future of Miss Rice's Group Dear Lenore: Washington, D. C., February 25, 1939. SAW in the paper yesterday that Robert Hfyndman, greatest American soloist, and his accompanist, Miss Lenore Wilson, will visit Washington and New York before they go abroadf' so I shall expect to see you soon, as I am here in Washington to se- cure a copyright on my book, A Latin Reader. While I was abroad I met Leon Katz in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, acting as American con- sul. He said he secured his appointment through William Raymond, now Vice President, and his secretary, Pearl White. I also met Loretta Gordon in Paris. She is now the Countess De La Couronne, and has two darling chil- dren. Denham Leisner is in Spain, teaching English to the children of the Royal Family. Jake Lynn inherited several million dollars a few years ago, and is now in Switzerland for his wife's health. f 'ri XL 9 Wifi? -V 0t3i?2.fEf'ef' 45 A 4 I 2 .l1i....A