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

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4 JUNIOR LIFE Class Officers George Ahern. President Harold Davidson. Secretaru Harry Palmer. Vice-President Dorothy Ann NIEDENFEUR. Treasurer Our President George Ahern, a well known character of our school, was re cntly elected president of our graduating class. He has spoken to us at various o'casons. He also was leader of the west side in our last paper sale. George came from the Bryant Elementary school and entered our Junior High School in the seventh grade. Since then he has learned to love our school and praises It whenever he has an opportunity to do so. When George was about ten years old he began to take very much interest in writing sport articles. He still likes to write about sports and hopes some day to be d sport editor lor some newspaper. Alter completing high school George plans to take up the study of journalism at the University. In him Bryant is losing ore of its best basketball players. We hope Georce will go out for sports at Central. Next fall we would like to see him playing on the Central Eleven. Some of the eighth grade-s think George would m .. e a good sprinter, seeing the way he sprints around the halls. Here's for success to our President of the January. 1925. class. OUR SECRETARY Harold Davidson who entered our school in the 7B came from the Bryant Elementary school. A few weeks ago Harold was e.ecteJ secretary of our

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JANUARY. 1926 3 SCHOLARSHIP Scholarship, as defined by Webster, is the character and the qualities of a scholar. A scholar, as we know, is one who is under instruction. Young men and young women of today realize as never before, the importance of an education. So apparent are its advantages that even the uneducated can realize it. During the calendar year 1925. the city of Minneapolis, alone, spent approximately $9,165,000 on her public schools, and we are told that the value of the American Public School plant, that is. the grounds, buildings. and equipment, is more than two and one half billion dollars. Hence it is not difficult to realize what the American public thinks of the value of education. Neither is it difficult for one to realize the importance of Good Scholarship as one journeys toward the goal of an education. By scholarship do we mean marks or ratings in the various subjects studied, for instance. English, social science, mathematics? Yes. but we mean something bigger than this. Experience teaches us that the good scholar is the one who can be relied upon to do his best. Study the ratings or marks received by the students in a class and you will find that satisfactory marks in the subjects taught compare very favorably with the marks given in reliability. The good scholar does not necessarily get all A s or Bs. but he is the one who can be relied upon to do his best—even under trying circumstances. We go to school in order that we may be better equipped for the duties of life—in order that we may be better citizens. Let us never forget that this better citizenship to which we so hope to attain, fosters several qualities—chief of which are—Courage. Courtesy. Generosity, Reliability and Obedience. This better citizenship is only attained through the exercise of these qualities. Let us ever be fine and noble in our thoughts and actions. 'This above all to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

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JANUARY. 1926 5 graduating class. He is known to us as good sport and a good friend. He is never neglectful of his duties and is always willing to help. As Harold takes up his school duties at Central we all know he will be successful. As a good sportsman. Harold takes part in all his class sports. He is center on his room basketball team and shines in this position, because of his fighting spirit on the floor. We all wish Harold a great success in the future, and that he may some day be a great cartoonist, for this is his greatest ambition. No project at Bryant has been complete without a poster by Harold to advertise it. JAMES SAMPLE James Sample has been a prominent member of the orchestra for the three years he has been in this school. He played the piano in the orchestra at Bryant Elementary School before he came to the Junior High. He is a versatile musician and plays the viola and pipe organ besides the piano. It was his good fortune to study pipe organ last summer in Kentucky where he was visiting. At present he is playing in an outside orchestra composed of eight Bryant Junior High School boys. Those who suppose that a musician must needs be a person of one idea ought to watch James do some of his other stunts. He plays basketball with the Wesley Church team. He is a fine skater as well as tennis, baseball, and football player. He is a member of the 9A Hi-Y. JEANETTE LEE Jeanette Lee of room 308 is the captain of the 9A volley ball team. She came from St. Cloud to Minneapolis and has been in Bryant Jr. ever since it opened. She is now doing very excellent work conducting the 7B. 7A. 8B and sometimes 9A gym classes during Mrs. Hurd's absence. We will miss Jeanette on the volley-ball team, gym and classes and hope she will not forget us. If she performs her work at Central as well as here, (which we are sure she will) she will be welcome. HARRY PALMER Harry Palmer from room 1 29. the vice-president of the Senior class, who is leaving us this January, came from Horace Mann school when Bryant Junior was first opened. He carries many honors with him. He has two 'B's.“ one for track and one for basketball. Harry is also business manager of the room teams and plays on 1 29’s basketball team. We will be sorry to lose Harry. He is an all around athlete, is almost as good in the school shops and his studies as he is on the athletic field. JAMES KERNS J- mes Kerns came to Bryant as a seventh grader from Horace Mann. Even at this time he had been a leader in the athletic sports of that school. This liking tor sports has continued and Bryant knows him as a fine player in baseball. football and basketball. He is captain of the basketball team of Room 1 29. In swimming and diving he is among the best. But Jimmie does not limit his leisure activities to sports alone: he has made for himself a fine record in the Boy Scouts. He is senior patrol leader in one of the best known troops in the city. Troop 71. He is the troop bugler and won fourth place in the Scout bugling contest. James is well liked by his classmates because of his fair play, fine sportsmanship and also because of his good natured disposition.