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

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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.

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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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THE JUNIOR LIFE 33 What Would Happen If 1. Lorraine Bourque left her lipstick at home? 2. Douglas Elm forgot to blush? 3. Marion Dahl lost her tennis shoes? 4. Robert Allen forgot to pick up the Math, books? 5. Kathryn Magnuson got her homework? 6. Rene Bridier got all A’s? 7. We didn't have Georg Lykken? 8. All of the teachers forgot to come to school? 9. Mr. Trafzer forgot to visit 101? 10. Miss Small forgot to assign a lesson? 11. We were dismissed at hve o’clock instead of three o’clock? 12. We had to come to school in the summer? 13. The teachers forgot to hand out the report cards? 14. Bryant had an escalator? 15. We didn't have our patient Mr. Hardakcr? We Wonder If Ten Years Ago 1. Emily Staab was the fattest baby? 2. Arnold Brooks had straight hair? 3. Betty Stevens was a noisy child? 4. Katherine Rorris had a pug nose? 5. Daniel Thompson had bow-legs? 6. Carolmae Ortley had black hair? 7. Roger Paschmeyer was the tallest baby boy? 8. Edna Pearson was the shortest baby girl? 9. Donald Perusse went to all strangers? 10. Helen Marie Oredson was the champion infant gum-chewer? 11. Maurice Remer was continually talking about something—or nothing? 12. Fred Risse pestered his little girl friends? 13. Hugh Rcimers was full of that infantile wit? 14. Edwin Cronk was an all-round favorite and liked girls with blue eyes? 15. Lelah Smith was always giggling and had such beautiful hair? 16. George Root tried to tease? 17. Verna Sutton was a joy to her playmates? 18. Henry Quist was an infant prodigy in music? 19. James Biddle was just as comical in all his ways? 20. Winifred Frazee could swim as well as toddle?