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

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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.

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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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38 THE JUNIOR LIFE High Lights of 203 An honor extraordinary was conferred upon a member of 8A2 in Room 203. She carried city honors for Junior High examination in penmanship, receiving a rating of ninety. This honor student was none other than Esther Larson. Congratulations, Miss Larson. Lorraine Gaarden is a very apt and studious girl who is preparing herself to become a nurse. She enjoys swimming. Delores Roll's favorite athletic pastime is skating. She prefers to become a secretary. Evangeline Ilemcnway: Do I like swimming? I'll say I do! This is my favorite sport. My desire is to become an aviatrix. The ambition of Bob Johnson is to become a football coach and he is working to this end. • • The Moon W ould Change to Green Cheese If David Hale forgot how to swim; Edwin Page and Alice Finley got all A's in English; George Hanson could leave the girls alone; Frances Johnson tumbled over her skates; Audrey Hanson left her make-up at home. W hat Would Happen If Leighton Polland couldn’t play football? Marian Litman forgot to stay at home? Robert Halverson didn't know how to skate? Jack Roddy couldn't talk? James Brown wasn't a good student? Phyllis Knutson couldn't dance? Neal Brown didn't have any lunch? • What Would Happen If Marguerite Lundquist couldn't sing; Billy Hawkes and Robert Weckland got all “A’s”; Frances Coyle couldn't dance; Muriel Eisenberg, Murlaine Benson, and Helen O’Connel left their makeup at home; Paul Ford, Harry Mayes, and Robert Bennett couldn't play basketball; Omer Lindeberg, Raymond Brust, and Robert Burton weren’t good athletes; John Johnson, Arthur Schultz, and Marvin Bleck weren’t good sports; Irene Del Rossi couldn’t play the cello; Eileen Kennedy and Kathryn King didn't go around together; Victory Vezzoso wasn't chewing gum; Norma Lindahl couldn't talk; Doris Rogers was seen without Audrey Webster; Eloise Hanson couldn't smile?