Bryant Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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JUNE. 1925 27 The Student Council a Class in Typewriting Students in the commercial department take penmanship as a regular subject. in connection with typing. Half a credit is given for each subject Classes in remedial penmanship are conducted for other students who need the work. We aim to have legible, neat, work banded in by all students in all subjects Students whose penmanship does not come up to a certain standard °.n J s.c '.c arc f™1 ™1 to t;]kc penmanship. Any teacher in the build'n Ins the privilege o. sending students to these remedial classes. Usually they lose a

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26 JUNIOR LIFE One of Our Art Rooms The drawings for the etchings were made by Farrand Carlson. Doris Marshall. Maxine Baker. Donald Hughes, and Jean Parker. They are all in Mrs. Hanley s Art classes. We appreciate their good work. One of the English Classes

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28 JUNIOR LIFE study period if obliged to take penmanship. When numbers of the remedial classes can prove that they are handing in work to their various teachers that is up to standard they are again excused from penmanship classes. All classes work toward perfection in the following points: posture, color, slant, size, beginning letter and ending strokes, word spacing, alignment, neatness, letter forms, and figures. Seventh grade classes are expecte i to attain a rate of sixty-five to eighty-five letters a minute and eighth and ninth grades a rate of seventy to one hundred letters a minute Lucille Mercereau. The Student Council consists of a group of persons elected by the student body to create and maintain proper standards for the school. Rules which are adopted by the body from time to time are enforced throughout the school by the student officers. At the present time the Council consists of forty-five members, one representative from each room, elected by the students. The present officers are Robert Martin, president, and Ray Burge, secretary. The term of office is for one semester: however, a representative may be re-elected. Regular meetings are held weekly in the auditorium, at which suggestions made by mmbers of the group or by the faculty are discussed. It is the desire of the organization to have each member bring from his home room group constructive ciriticisms for the welfare of Bryant Junior. Each representative gives a report of the meeting to his own room group at the next Home Activity period. Recent work of the Council is the putting on of a Better Bryant Week. Committees were appointed to work out a splendid program for the occasion as well as to supervise the carrying out of the program. The main speakers of the week were Supt. W. F. Webster, and Reverend T. E. Cullen. President of St. Thomas College. Another good piece of work of the Council was the appointing of a publicity committee which is making good. Raymond Martin. CLUBS Bryant Junior Hi-Y Organization The Hi-Y organization is one of the finest examples of boys’ clubs in existence. It deals with the betterment, mentally, spiritually. an d physically, of boys. The Hi-Y organization at Brvant Junior consists of about one hundred twenty-five boys. These boys are divided into three clubs, the Eagles, the Ich Deans, and the McCreerys. among which there is constant competition. The Eagle Club is worthy of much praise. Though it is newly organized it is steadily forging ahead. Points are awarded to each club for many different things such as athletic efficiency in the gymnasium, service jobs done in school, and conductin' the best meeting of the week. These meetings are held in seoarate club rooms. Tbev point out how we should solve our every-day problems by the teachings of the Scriptures. Anv boy in Brvant Junior who is not a member of the Hi-Y abso’ r lv does not know what he is missing, and is strongly advised to attend some of our meetings next year and see for himself what fun we enjoy. Ray Burge.