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

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THE JUNIOR LIE E 37 Our Swimming Class Confusion reigned in the locker rooms but nobody got wet as the first period class crowded in. Above the racket Amelia Nelson’s voice could be heard yelling for Marion Bell. The faces of Ruth Chute and Phyllis Smith were puckered up in dismay because their little white lies wouldn’t excuse them from swimming. T he girls were nearly through with their showers when Mrs. Boylan’s whistle was heard summoning them for inspection. Splash! — in plunged all the girls except Betty Lou Neese, who lingered lovingly by the rails of the pool trying to pluck up enough courage to jump in. Betty Young was sent from the pool in gales of laughter as she couldn't control her mirth after Ada Olson’s dive. After twenty minutes of swimming and diving the girls were sent scurrying to the shower rooms to get dressed. Virginia Gould was having a great time trying to get close enough to the mirror to comb her hair. Lorraine Bush could be seen dashing around the locker rooms trying to find where the detention room was to be for the last bell had rung. We don't blame Mrs. Boylan for giving a sigh of relief as Leanore Olson, Frances Brennan, Donna Hogan, and Violet Johnson hurry out at the last. What Would We Do 1. If we had school on Saturdays; 2. If there were no gym periods; 3. If there was a law against talking in the halls; 4. If the girls were all on one floor and the boys on another, the 7B’s on the third floor; 5. If there were no auditorium periods; 6. If we had two math, periods a day; 7. If we had no library; 8. If the Junior Life Stall were all sick; 9. If we were always caught reading our favorite story books; 10. If we had no Christmas vacation; 11. If the Odyssey were twice as complicated; 12. If we had to memorize five hundred lines for memory work; 13. If we couldn’t go to the store after lunch; 14. If the lunch room staff gave us poor lunches; 15. If we had no clubs; I think we would all be very much bored with education. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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36 THE JUNIOR LIFE What Bryant Needs 1. More study periods 2. Recess 3. Fewer of Mrs. Warner’s after school parties 4. Longer lunch periods 5. A taller Gladys Wilson 6. Bigger and better graduation 7. Red flannel uniforms 8. Modernistic desks There was once a good care-free 9A Whose school-days were usually gay, But when promotion time came, Much to the fellow's shame, In his fine school the hoy had to stay. A fellow in school loved to roam. In study hall never was kjiown, But there came the time And for that same crime Detention room became his home. There once was a student of muscle Who from others his lessons would rustle. But when tests came around, On each one he frowned And was in for an unhappy tussle. Do You Know 1. That the Leviathan weighs ten tons less directly under the moon at low tide? 2. That an ice-boat sails faster than the wind that blows it? 3. That Texas has an out-board motorboat race track out on the prairie ten miles from the nearest lake? 4. T hat banana oil has no banana oil in it but only smells like it? 5. That the courthouse clock has no numbers on it, only bars of iron? 6. That the Empire State Building is a lightning rod for all the other buildings around it? 7. That a perfect vacuum contains: carbondioxide, argon, xehon, neon, helium, crypton, and many other gases? 8. That lightning puts nitrogen into the soil thereby increasing the grade of the soil? 9. That ice-cream increases the heat of the body?

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38 THE JUNIOR LIFE A Visit to the Indian Country While visiting in the Indian country we first visited the Jumping Snakes where Donald Brady was chief. We arrived just after a hunt. A group of Indians including Bruce Nelson, Harold Martcnson, Lyle Samuelson, and Edward Lewis were bringing in several deer. We were informed that the medicine man was James Beatty. Several squaws were seen and we recognized a few of them. Nan Pemberton, Grace Shantz, Amy Tharaldson, and Virginia Munger. The next tribe visited was the Howling Coyotes. We were greeted by two of the chief warriors of the tribe, John Ryan and Edward Erickson. A dance was being held to worship the Sun. A few of the participants were Lucille West, Donna Hogan, Betty Lou Neese, Robert Phillips, and Carleton Mills. The chief, Jack Kenaston, informed us that these dances occurred every four months. We were directed to the Flying Rabbit tribe by John Kiklas where we were warmly welcomed by Cyril Eggum, the chief. We renewed our peace pledge by smoking the pipe with Robert Anderson, George Ryan, and John Solberg. As we left for home the last sound we heard was Carlyle Jacobson’s song to the moon. 1. When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain . • • I am still studying 2. I Don’t Know Why • • • I can’t get the Odyssey 3. Guilty Of not having homework done 4. Moonlight Saving Time . • .What we study by 5. At Your Command .. Dear teacher 6. What Is It? The answer 7. Come to Me . • Passing grades 8. Was It Wrong? . • .I'o copy answers 9. It's the Girl .. That gets her homework 10. Me . .Yours truly 11. Nevertheless ... It's a great life ... I won’t have anyone to get math answers from 12. After You’re Gone 13. Now That You’re Gone ...I’ll flunk 14. Sweet and Lovely ... An “A” test paper 15. I Apologize .. For not getting my homework 16. Many Happy Returns of the Day ... .. When I graduate 17. Just One More Chance . To get in my job analysis 18. HI Get By Maybe (?) 19. I'm Keeping Company 20. Now You’re in My Arms ... In the Detention room ... School books—don’t get ex-cited 21. I Know What It Means to Be Sorry Coming from Mr. Hardakcr 22. I Can’t Write the Words To the Odyssey test