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

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10 THE JUNIOR LIFE Minneapolis, Minn. March i, 1973 Dear James: Sitting in my library tonight, gazing into my sparkling and glowing artificial fireplace, my thoughts wandered hack to the days when we were boys at Bryant Junior High. How we used to discuss the cartoon of Buck Rogers and wonder if it would ever become true. Now as 1 gaze about me and sec all those things happening daily and becoming the accustomed things of life, I marvel at it. We boys were then glad to get a ride to school in an automobile. Boys and girls now just attach their flying belts and away they go to school. The air is thick with people flying here and there, with no automobiles. The traffic cops are now many miles up in the air instead of on corners. Their troubles are quite different from what they used to be. They now regulate the airplanes so that people with flying belts arc safe and there are no accidents. How difficult for the youngsters to understand our childhood days. Now instead of their fathers saying, “Johnny, put some coal on the fire,” they say, “Turn on the hot or cold vapor,” or “Turn on the sun rays. Instead of mother working half her time in the kitchen preparing the meals, she just hands them a couple of pills. Do you remember the instruments called telephones? How much better television is. You can't fool people now by pretending to be somebody else. I talked to my mother way across the continent and could see every wrinkle in her dear old face. Your friend, Gerald Goodlund Qualities Of A Perfect Student A perfect student is always on time; A perfect student avoids waste; A perfect student obeys his teacher at all times; A perfect student never shirks his duty; A perfect student is always prepared; A perfect student never chews gum in public; A perfect student loves his classmates; A perfect student is always courteous to new pupils; A perfect student is helpful at all times; A perfect student is never detained after school for discipline. How many of these qualities have you?

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 9 Cam p fires When I was very young, it seemed to me that campfires were a decided nuisance. The smoke got in my eyes, and the heat scorched my face and hands while the rest of my anatomy resided in a very cold atmosphere. Soon I was shivering and smoking at one and the same time. As I grew older, it became more and more clear to me that around a fire in the great outdoors the best and most lasting friendships are forged. The dancing, glimmering flame is the spirit of life itself. No one can forecast its movements or in any way change them. I also discovered that we who are highly civilized have much in common with our primeval ancestors when we are around a campfire. They sat in their crude garments around a jealously guarded flame, made perhaps by lightning. We sit around a fire ignited with a match and clothed in apparel made in large lactorics. Yet the thought is the same around any campfire, a group chatting and singing and making friends. All are equal around a fire, and all are apparently endowed with the ability to see into anyone's innermost thoughts and to discern his character plainly. Around a campfire there is charity for all and malice for none, and we have a just and lasting place among ourselves and with everyone. George Schwert. The Good Luck Piece of a Brilliant Boy Soon as the early, rosy-fingered dawn appeared, a dark, curly haired, rather short boy rose from his bed, put on his clothes, slung his bright orchid rabbit paw over his shoulder, under his shining feet hound his fair shoes, and came forth from his chamber. For many a long year he had carried a shiny white rabbit paw given to him by an honorable friend, but now he had a new orchid paw. As he entered his father’s dining room, his father came forth and opened his arms and said, “Explain to me, dear son, why you are carrying the rabbit paw.” “Oh, my dear father,” answered the dark one of the brilliant mind, “it is to help me win in a game of baseball against the other great teams of the glorious house of Bryant where the gods and goddesses of Wisdom dwell with the Father of Education, Ernest J. Hardakcr. May the gods of physical education, John Boylan and Kristian Andersen, give us strength to win. That, my dear father, is the reason I carry this rabbit paw. This is a sure sign of spring when Maestro Howard Grossman turns from snooping for news and exercising his nimble fingers on the piano scale to match his skill against the others boys in a game of baseball. Bernice Kronick

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 11 Marching On With Bryant The high-lights of Bryant’s history Are pleasant to recall; Come, then, let’s review them For with pride we point to all. 1923 With nine hundred ninety-nine pupils Young Bryant began its career; The first Bryant paper was published And claimed as successful that year. The Hi-Y was organized also, And boys wished to join, one and all, While murals of beauty, still famous, Were hung in the lower front hall. 1924 This year saw the Bryant lawn seeded To help beautify our new school; Student officers also were chosen To help enforce Bryant’s rules. A Color Day, then celebrated, Was famed for its banners so bright, For then’s when our colors were chosen And still we salute red and white. 1925 The first Junior Life then was published; We heard the first strains of the band; And both are as popular now as They were on the day they began. 1926 We issued the first Bryant handbooks; We purchased a large playground, too; The courts, landscaped, surely looked well-kept. And health gained a new meaning, too, For this year the queen and the monarch Of health held their first royal sway, And still every spring time we choose them To lead our whole school for a day. 1927 Our orchestra now received laurels, 'I’he city-wide contest they won; Our boys’ glee-club also was honored And both got first place in the sun; A picture of Justice was given; The greenhouse was filled with bright bloom; And chandeliers hung from the ceiling, A gift from the finishing room.