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

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--rs W J , ,, Miss Baker's Gingersnaps YZ! 1 ISS Baker is our adviser, and our home is 217. We have spent E 4 only one short year at dear old junior High and now must ans- ? -3 wer Soldan's call. Our group is quite different from others, as we have only stayed at Junior for the ninth grade. Many paths A have led us to junior, both grade and private schools being well 41 1-45 A .4 3 .1 fr if Q-ff' represented in our gathering. Even at junior our paths have separated, for we are known in nearly all lines of study offered to students. We have representatives in the following electives: Domestic Science, Manual Training, Mathematics, French, Latin, Span- ish, Commercial, Art. Class tendencies have also made our group diverge in the selection of clubs. We have pupils in the following clubs: Social Service, Boys' Glee, Dramatic, Model makers, Orchestra, Maga- zine, Reporters, French, Tennis, Mechanical Drawing. Our class also comes in for its share of student activities. Every mem- ber is a bank depositor, and we have responded well to other calls. Our group is very proud of its individual records. Arnold Mason and James Watson, both formerly members of the Field School, have received the high- est merits given in activities and scholarship. Arnold is the student having made thirteen A's out of sixteen grades, and jimmy is our Held hero. We are also honored by having another of our members on the baseball team, Russel Weaver. Jack Lunt was also a star in the athletic Held, but we are very sorry that he had to leave junior on account of an injury to his knee, which made an operation necessary. As for the girls, Olive Loughin broke the record in the far throw, and Maggie jane McLaren was chosen to be the accompanist in the Boys' Glee club. On one honor roll more pupils were enrolled from our room than any other single room. We certainly are proud of our qualities and our honors and believe we have left a record behind us that was Well worth while. This record we hope to continue at Soldan. It is with a sorrowful heart that we are leaving junior and our dear adviser, Miss Baker. Miss Racy's Group ' RIENDS, countrymen, and Juniors, lend me your ears. 13345 pam We come to praise Junior, not to bury it. fpgfxpygmi Here under leave of Junior and the rest,- --' 'Th , --J Come we to speak of our happy past. We have brought many votes home to junior, Whose taxes did our city coffers F1113 , When the poor hath cried, our pockets weptg 51

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MEEHAN'S GROUP. MISS 1- ?

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For to the front Idabelle stepped. We thrice presented Escheal with a secretary's crown, Which he did thrice accept without a frown. But here's a parchment with the seal of Junior, 'Tis good you know now that you are its heirs. You all do know Jerome Krutzch, our president, He hath left you his official chairg Pringle George, our vice, leaves his adios g Viola Maetten leaves to you her seat in Congressg Norton Schaefer wills his place in the Reporters' Club. George White his scales does present to you. Moreover, on this side of Union, David Balser, Lester Gast, Thelma Lunt, Genevieve Lechtenberg, Melba Merkel, Ethel Wall, Louis Yaffe, Jack Garelnick, Nevins Poston, Rosalind Jacobs, Charles Priver, Esther Stampfer, Rose Schaeffer, Richard Williams and Bernard Young, Have left to you Junior's Halls, ' Her noble campus, and her walks, For you and your heirs forever, Common pleasures, to walk abroad and recreate yourselves. Here was a group! When comes such another? The Peppy Nines Q 'WN E are the Peppy Ninesn. We do all we can for Junior: we de- ll, , posit in the bankg we subscribe for the Life , we contribute to 'E m il all the funds, such as the near East relief . Some of us are always on the Honor Roll . We go in for athletics, for are not our big boys, John and French, on the school team, and haven't our girls a successful baseball team? We go in for everything, and if we don't reach our goal at the first shot, we get there slowly but surely. We uphold the standards and morals of Junior to the best of our abilities. One of us, Jeanette Hammer, won the pennant offered in the ninth grade to the one who sold the most tickets for our show, while Virginia Henslee won the fountain pen offered in the seventh grade for the same purpose. And by the way, have you noticed the pennant hanging in our home room? The class won that for being the first over the top in Junior Life subscriptions in the eighth grade. We have only one regret since we entered Junior, and that is that we are to leave in June Ben Blewett, our home room 105, and our beloved teachers. Those of our group who have won Blewett B's are: Jessie Gorman C7th and 9th gradeb, Violet Scallets, Virginia Henslee, Mary Schneider, Gladys Russell, Jeanette Hammer. 52