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

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 31 Spot Light Hob Kelly Douglas Du Lac John Castle Thomas Jackson Edward Skinner David Dahlquist Edward Herman Wittiest Maurice Kricr James Biddle Class Clown Arthur Shurson Class Canary William Hayes Harold Anderson Leo Filzen Alvin Nelson Kathleen Liljcberg Sidney Orr Audrey Kueken Ernest Carlson Class Bean Pole Philip Johnson Elroy Merz Bernice Anderson Byron 1 laglund Chewing Cum Champ Edith Jcrnberg Harlan Erickson Maurice Krier luidics Man Rollert Helgcson James Pidgcon Roger Paschmeycr Russel Johnson Grayce Enquist George Root John Castle Dorothea Moeller James Mankcy Helen Oredson George Schwcrt John Randolph Someone Said That Charlotte Prescott wants to be a nurse; That Virginia Utter likes Latin; That Muriel Paulson gets ioo in all the Odyssey tests; That Newton Amhli loves C. L. P.; That Archie Chambers always has his math, homework; That James Burns knows a lot about bucking broncoes; That Mildred Rudbcrg couldn't swim; That Daniel Lawler never recited in C. L. P. That Marcella Floren couldn't make up good swimming excuses! Do you agree with them? A Bryant Bozo— —is sending blank post cards through the mails so nobody can read them. —is working on a contrivance to utilize the energy wasted in jazz dances. —is planning to raise oysters made of rubber, so as to avoid cruelty to animals when the oysters are put in the soup.

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30 1 I F£ THE With the curliest curly hair, And the maidens looked, and the maidens sighed For, oh—he was wondrous fair, But his hair hangs down to his ankles now; On his chin is a growth of years, And he is a hermit, renouncing the world In spite of the world’s sad tears. And Robert’s another—by some called Bob, He Was Irish, and oh, what a sheik! But he got his girl friends a triHe mixed, And we’ll never more hear him speak. One other, there is—but his tale is sad, He was famed for his eyes of blue, And, though somewhat of an amateur, He was coming along fine, too. Admiring damsels called him “Bob (And skeptics called him the Hen) But he laughed and flirted and greased his hair—. And his life was a gay one—then. But now he is withering fast away And—it’s almost too sad to tell But—“don’t get sassy,’’ he shouts all day, And they've got him locked in a cell. Oh, some of the sheiks are successes now— Stage Romeos, price, two bits. And some are playing the love game still— No runs, no errors, no hits. But lad, let us warn you before you start, Take heed of the talc of the Hen, And think before you begin to fall, For oh, you're a goner then! Hits of the Day Was my face red—After report cards were issued! Here it is Monday—And no home-work done. The sidewalk waltz—To Central. I’ve got a right to feel blue—After the Odyssey test. J igsaw—Algebra. I wake up smiling—If my home-work’s done. Darkness on the delta—And I’m still studying. May lx it’s because I love you too much—Latin. You’re getting to be habit with me—Detention room. When the morning rolls around again—I’ll want to stay in bed.

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32 THE JUNIOR LIFE Well9 I Never ! Recently while at the home of John Castle I touched the wrong switch on some electrical equipment. When the smoke had cleared away, he had an idea for a new invention, a what-will-they-bc-in-the-futurc-machinc. Personally I was very dubious as to John’s sanity at the time. I have since seen the machine and it works, and I never saw a saner person in my life than John Castle. Looking through a small aperture in the midst of dozens of dials and coils I saw Douglas Bloomberg demonstrating rowing machines in a drug-store window. Herbert Crocker was selling patent medicine, and Robert Apelt, who had broken the world’s record for kicking BB's was coming down the street talking to Harold Blakkestad who had devoted his life to raising Austrian fleas for Edward Skinner, a famous doctor, to test poisons on. Harlan Erickson, Fay Root, and Lynn Rolig were also famous scientists, but they are all in the institution devoted to the care of half wits. While these boys were working on an extremely complicated machine a six ton insulator fell on their heads and jimmied the works inside. It was a wonderful age my comrades were living in. Bryant Junior was a laboratory covering six square blocks with television in every room. Frances Clausen was teaching Sanskrit at the time and “Sonny Herman with Bob Hinck and Ernest Carlson as his assistants was conducting an extensive study of frog hair and worm cars to be used for stuffing pillows. You may doubt my word, but all I can say is, “Wait and see. • • Little Things In Life Betty Lou Schoening thinks that the greatest accomplishment of the ancient Romans was speaking Latin. Jack Grogan still maintains that the world’s greatest inventor was an Irishman named Pat Pending. Marion Seefcldt, when asked for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, replied that he never lived there. After a year of scientific research, Edward Lund has discovered that the heavy end of a match is the light end. Robert Hcnretta’s pals think he’s a wit. Jean Ohlin has come to the conclusion that they’re half right. Donald Birtness’ idea of a hypocrite is a boy who comes to school with a smile on his face. When Leo Filzcn heard of “The Last Days of Pompeii, he wondered what Pompeii died of. Wanda Ford wasn't sure, but she thought it was some kind of an eruption. Miss Brunner has decided that Robert Allen has a head for geometry. It’s both plane and solid. Last but not least, according to Bernice Kronick’s opinion, Scotland Yard is two feet eleven inches.