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

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36 THE JUNIOR LIFE 8th Grade Representatives Row I—Vincent Shields, June Hendrickson, Anna Jane Eggum, Jane Colucci, Boh Johnson. Row II—Wenonah Goodman, Marguerite Oliver, Annabellc Lee, Virginia Youngherg. Row III—Stanley Rud, Jean Vanstrum, John Williams. The 8B Masquerade The Murray Hotel, owned and operated by Robert Murray, is celebrating its gala opening with a ball at which each guest is to appear as a well-known historical character. The cordial host greets each masked guest wondering at each identity. As twelve o’clock approaches, the guests begin to unmask and we find that John Smith is none other than John Melchisedeck, Vasco de Gama is Lester Wreath, the charming Betsy Ross is our friend Constance Vogel, the hardy Daniel Boone is the well-known William Halverson, and Thomas Vlassis is the eminent Governor Dinwiddie. As the guests seat themselves at the beautifully decorated table we sec next to the host Virginia Youngherg as Martha Washington. Others at the table are Blaine Lindskog as Thomas Hooker, Howard Gross-man as Cornwallis, Margaret Evans as Louisa May Alcott, Audrey Bowers in a beautifully beaded costume as the charming Pocahontas. Beside her is his Excellency Lord North, who is after all our own friend Reuben Lundeen. Other famous characters are Priscilla Mullens portrayed by Ruth Jensen. The eminent poet Henry Longfellow is here and we have a faint suspicion that it is really Frank Holicek. A party would not be complete without Molly Pitcher and Massassoit who are Frances Chapman and Earl Halloway. Gorgeously gowned Queen Elizabeth is none other than Betty Holtby. As her escort wc find Lee Elphis costumed as Peter Styvesant, wooden leg and all.

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 35 “W is for wisdom we are all trying to get; If only we could always remember and never forget. “X is for examples we all have to do; Some of us figure and never get through. “Y” is for youth and while we are young Let’s store up some knowledge for the lives we’ve begun. “Z” is for zeroes, a big round “O” And glad that on our cards they never do go. This is the story of our 7A5 Class, A group of good students, we know we’ll all pass. Famous Ancestors in 30H Marguerite Carroll...................................St. Patrick Margaret Williams............................Edgar Allan Poe Robert Lykken.....................................Daniel Boone • • 226 H ants to Know What If: Helen Floback was never seen with Charlotte Flohack; June Nelson and Henry Sampson never banked; Gladys Anderson didn’t read books; Floride Keith was never kind; Evelyn Mohl blushed so easily; Olga Oliver never helped Mrs. Powell; Vera Johnson was the smallest girl in 226; Bernice Johnson was the tallest girl in 226; Isabell Nordquist never used make-up; Alma Johnson didn’t get 100 in spelling; Clifton Larson played a harp; Harry Morgan and Raymond McGulpin didn’t chew gum; Jeanette Isaacson didn’t belong to any clubs; Edmund Johnson never sang; Arthur Northrup never giggled; Burton Hovdc never talked; Emmett Hannon was never rude; Wilbur Hodge never ate candy; Robert Mallory never smiled; Donald Sachs played a saxaphonc; Vincent Moreland never was absent? Answers to Know Your Colors 1. South 2. Washburn 3. West •I. Central 5. Marshall 9. Wisconsin 6. Edison 10. Yale 7. North II. Minnesota 8. Roosevelt 12. Illinois

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 37 The ball room is a pool of changing lights and as the gentlemen lake the ladies by the hand, the first dance of the evening is to be an old-fashioned Virginia Reel. As the guests whirl past, Dolly Madison and Eli Whitney, who are Janet Turner and Richard Petrich, Clara Barton and Paul Revere in the persons of Marcella Rothenberger and Harold Nickles, John Paul Jones and Queen Anne who are Theone Teory and Howard Barr, are recognized. Now the partners have changed and we see Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Penn tripping off together. Sure enough just as we expected, they are Marcia Rehl and Maurice Teague. The wellknown dancers, Malcolm Erickson and Raymond Borne, dressed as Marquette and Joliet, do a specialty number. They finish their dance by whirling Mary, Queen of Scots, alias Roseanne Hart, and Marie Antoinette, or Rosemary Doyle, away in a dance. Others around the hall are George Washington or Gordon Rasmussen, Vasco Dc Gama or Sherman Olson, Joan of Arc or Marilyn Anderson, Jenny Lind or Virginia Hoff. We sec Patrick Henry, John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Alexander Hamilton who are really Douglass Chatfield, Roy Dale, Charles Hoag, Richard Raiter, and George Butts, looking glum because five colonial dames refuse to dance with them. They are Kathryn Reno, Dorothy Wagner, Marion Hanlon, Virginia Bell, and Evelyn Olson. Florence Nightingale and six Southern belles arc smiling bewitchingly at Sir Walter Raleigh, John Alden, Benjamin Franklin, George R. Clark, John Hancock, Sir Francis Drake, Miles Standish, and John Adams. The boys discover that the girls are Eileen Walvatne, Janet Drew, Mary Meyers, Ruth Hosmer, Betty J. Peterson, Harriet Chatterton, and Lois Michelson. The girls are greatly disappointed to find their heroes to be Eugene Lund, Chester Petrich, Robert Phillips, Arthur Rondeau, Norman Smith, John Henderson, Warren Pickard and Donald Smith. As the party ends we see John Stratc in a somewhat bedraggled John Smith costume, Robert Grono in a Henry Hudson suit, Burton Pearson as a gayly bedecked Pizzaro, and John Jay who in real life is Gordon Abbey, climb into a car driven by General Braddock who is John Williams. The ball is over and the great figures of history again step back into the pages of history. • • Stoocom plicated “Whatchagotna packidge ? ” “Sabook.” “ Wassanaimuvitt ?” “Sadickshunery, fullonaimes. Gonna gcttaplecedig angottagetta-naim ferim.