DuBois Area Middle School - Mirror Yearbook (Du Bois, PA)

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as well do some real he-man changing and plant apple, pear, and cherry trees beside the tennis court we will have made. Now that the home rooms are ready, well start to remodel the auditorium by trading the old seats for new ones. They squeak too much now-a-days. 'A Since the school is changed we might as well modern design the seventh grad- ers by making them a mite bigger. They'll have grown up by the time they have struggled into ninth grade. Thanks to us. Naturally, right from the first, we would treat the patrol boys with more re- spect and pass out Fifth Avenue Candy Bars to those on the 3:40 shift. Next on the list is certainly a good change for nervous little men like Mr. Twitmire. To save all the wear and tear on that fragile door of his, we would in- stall a photoelectric cell above that hunk of wood, so a student wanting in- side wouldn't have to stand on the outside for an hour before succeeding in opening it. When he finally did get it open, he wouldnt have the knob in his hand either. For the good of all those students, especially Marion Cross and Ken John- son and some five hundred other terribly superstitious individuals, we hereby solemnly swear to put a ban on all Friday the Thirteenths and keep all black cats away. With this done maybe those little fugitives from haunted houses wouldn't make it possible for students to lose all those seven years of growth on every one of those fateful days. Here's something we could never in the world forget to dog have six months of brain work and then to even it up, have six glorious months of vacation. . Well, we are this far with our list and still haven't mentioned anything about those bang-up lunch periods. We might as well say right now that we would have two, one in the afternoon, of course, with loads of apples and maybe a turkey dinner thrown in every once in a while. This will be a special treat for those greedy keeds who are always hungry. We want to make it clear that we would soon have more Greenhorn Jam- borees and Blues Chasers so the seventh and eighth graders won't get urustyi' on party ideas. . For those little kids who can't defend themselves, we'll replace all the old- fashioned clothes closets with the more modern clothes racks. Then some poor nonsuspecting student won't spend the night some place other than home. The BROADCASTER Staff will like this change We know, and we certainly couldn't overlook it by any means. That well-known little journal will be published every other month instead of every other week. After all the staff iand sponsors need a well-earned rest. Last but not least is one we all know will be convenient for a few local girls. We would actually move, piece by piece, Rockton and Home Camp to our snappy little burg with a Frenchy name-DuBois. After all these things we have let you in on, someone might get the -bright idea that we don't like our old Alma Mater. Think twice, you might be mistaken the first time. After all, if we didn't like it, we wouldn't have taken the time to think up all these ways to make this school just hunky-dory . - -11.-1-1.11 CLUBS , Due to the untiring efforts of the Nature Study Club members, twenty happy bird couples moved into new, gayly-decorated homes to spend the sum- mer. These nature enthusiasts expect to understand more thoroughly the lives of different types of birds. Plans are being made so that the members of the club may raisestheir own victory gardens dur- ing the summer vacation. Q The Aircraft Club of junior high has always been one of the school's live wire clubs. These air-minded boys of the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades have a new sponsor, Mr. Earlley, who supervised the construction of twenty-five model planes built for government purposes. Mr. Earlley left for the Army recently. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin was written by the Sci-Hi Club members and produced over the radio. In November, Mr. William McCracken, an ornithologist, gave a vivid talk concerning birds. ,,, ,,A i

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SWIMMING MEET The boys annual intramural swim- ming meet held this year was quite an event. The pool was not available for the final races between sections, and the championships were decided by the best time. Individual winners in each event were as follows: 9-1, 9-3: Francis Clark won the 25 yd. backstroke, the 25 and 75 yd. crawls. Kenneth Johnson finished out in front in the 50 yd. crawl. 9-5, 9-2: Gerald Mack splashed his way to victory in the 25 yd. backstroke and the 75 yd. crawl. He tied with Bill Benson in the 25 yd. crawl. Homer Het- rick captured the 50 yd. crawl in this section. ' 9-4, 9-6: Dick Cochran was tops in the 25 and 50 yd. crawl races while Kirby Hook took the 25 yd. backstroke. Sheldon Rideout set a new record in the 75 yd. crawl by clipping 5! 10 of a second off Don Sykes' record of 1 min. 2 5!10 sec. This record was the only record broken in the ninth grade. Winners judged by time were: 25 and 50 yd. crawls-Dick Coch- ran, 75 yd. crawl-Sheldon Rideoutg 25 yd. backstroke-Kirby Hook. The eighth graders were successful in breaking two of the four records. Dave Johnson accounted for both of them., 8-1, 8-4: In the 25 yd. crawl Dave Johnson glided through in 16 sec. He was on the beam that day breaking the record in the 75 yd. crawl, too. His time was 1 min. 6 sec. He also won the 50 yd. crawl and tied with Bruce Bogle in the 25 yd. backstroke in 23.5 sec. 8-2, 8-3: Lon Dillman won both the 25 yd. and the 50 yd. crawls, while Harry Hiner won the 25 yd. backstroke. In the 75 yd. crawl Bob Jones was the winner in 1 min. 14 sec. 8-5, 8-6: Jim Cochran won the 25 yd. crawl in 19 sec. Joe Miller came in first in the 50 yd. crawl in 46 sec. and in the 75 yd. crawl in 1:19 sec. The water was really sizzling when the seventh graders left the pool. Not one record was left unbroken. Jerry Dolan easily smashed two of them, the 25 yd. and 50 yd. crawls. Merle Shively broke the other record. His time of 20.5 sec. in the 25 yd. backstroke was 5 sec. faster than the old record. Dolan's time in the 25 yd. crawl was 18 sec., more than 2 1X2 sec. under the old record. His time of 42.5 sec. in the 50 yd. crawl was .7 of a sec. under the record. 7-1, 7-2: Dolan won all the races in this group. 7-3, 7-4: In the 25 yd. backstroke Bill Smith was pronounced the winner: Al- bert McCullough with little trouble cap- tured the 50 yd. crawl title. Bill Anthony won the 25 yd. crawl. 7-5: Shively finished first in all con- tests. THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE We're leaving dear old junior high, but before going we ninth graders would like just one day when we could be kings . Just in case we ever did get our wish, here's a list which will give you a hint of some of the changes that we have taken the trouble to dream up: ' To begin with, we will construct a brand-spanking new school and place all the rooms on one floor, so some of the lazy students in rooms 15 and 18 who are still pounding their ears at 8:05 in the morning, wouldn't have to run u all those steps to beat the late bell. lgfhile speaking of bells, we might make a new rule and have the late gong ring at 8:31 so boys like Boo Grinnen could be on time. But now getting back to the subject, we are still in tlfe mood for new things so we'll tint the walls in those new pastel shades that were all the rage this spring, and have harmonizing fblackj boards of greens, blues, and whites with contrast- ing chalk. fMaybe a new eraser now and then.J In these rooms we will have chaise lounge desks with the individual reading lamps. Here's the catch, you break the bulbs-you buy the new ones. But ser- iously now Kas if this could be seriousj since we are always trying to make the better for worse, or vice versa, we might

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l PHOTOGRAPHY I PHOTOGRAPHY ll CHEERLEADERS ANNOUNCERS At the beginning of the second semes- ter, twenty - four students voluntarily formed the Choral Speaking Choir with Miss Lansberry as sponsor. In past years of junior high school's history, there have been Choral Speaking Choirs but these have been formed from outstanding English classes. Even though the Choir's o u t s t a n d i n g performance was The Eastertide, it broadcast many entertain- ing radio programs. Junior high girls had an opportunity to join the Girl Scout troops. Their meet- ings were held during club periods .... During Girl Scout Week the girls exhibit- ed handicraft articles, gave demonstra- BROADCASTER STAFF MIRROR STAFF l tions of simple bandaging, and baked cookies. The A Cappella Choir is one of the old- est and most popular clubs of junior high school. It was first formed in 1935 by Miss Sutton, who is still the sponsor of this group. This yearls club has a mem- bership of fifty-two boys and girls. Dur- ing the school term two cantatas were given 3 Why the Chimes Rang and The Eastertide. - Because of the growing popularity of the Woodcraft Club, it was separated into two groups, both under the sponsorship of Mr. Thomas. Although there were no special projects undertaken at Christmas i