Martin Boots Junior High School - Sketch Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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THE SKETCH 35 are all in high school. Find out for yourself. Home Room 8 is the basketball champion this year. Was it luck or did you really know your business? Whichever it was-congratulations anyway. That silent 9B, fquoted from 19371 Buddy Lavengood, seems to have quite a fancy for Phyllis Love this year, by the looks of his books. fNot mentioning hers., How do you like the new songs for this year? Especially Hold Tight. It seems like some people are taking it literally. Billy Chambers and Eugene Packard have been playing second Robert Taylor and Richard Greene to the girls. Some are wondering what you boys are doing to get so much attention lately. Why not let others in on the secret? It seems like the boys handed in their bids to the girls exceptionally early for the 9A banquet. What's the matter, boys? Think they'll get away? These charm bracelets the girls are wearing don't seem to be charming the teachers very much by the way they have been complaining about them. Martin Boots held it's 1939 Operetta named An Old Kentucky Gar- den. Some of the main characters were: Pat Camp, Russell Enyeart, Jimmie Michos, Norma Vossler and Dale McMasters. Others parts were the Chorus, Rose Drill and The Plantation Chorus. Jackie Wilson also scored a big hit with her song, Why No One To Love? What are those Hawaiian shirts the boys are wearing? They seem to be the height of fashion. Girls, why couldn't we have thought up some- thing like that? Attention, everybody! Chew your gum OUTSIDE of school, or you might get a lorh period!! This question has been going around . Why didn't Bonnie Smelser try out for the 9A class play? The answer, she was too shy!! Why Bonnie!! Mr. Campbell is slowly being driven frantic by his 9A-9B Art class. Tom Smith and Bill Orrnsby are suspected by everybody as being the main cause of the trouble! We sympathize!!!! Pee-Wee Vossler seems to be communicating quite extensively with Shirley Fortney in 4th period stuudy hall. The subject of the notes couldn't be a certain blond Hercules in section 4, could it girls? QI don't mean you Stanley Coffman!!!j This, my friends, is the closing of the Newsy Gossip Column. We sin- cerely hope no one loses sleep over what was said or left unsaid. Adieu, -Bumnkiu Looms AND MARY WrrMEn

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34 THE SKETCH Nosey News Bag We are opening the bag and are letting most all of this year's happen- ings out. So be prepared. We were sorry to see the 9A mid-termers leave us, but we hear some of the girls were glad to get over there with those tall, dark, and handsome high school boys. clump, clump, clump. Here come those girls with those atrocious wooden shoes. What a noisy school, with shoes and voices combined. What will they be wearing next? We wonder. We're beginning to wonder about our Martin Boots wonder team this year since they were defeated by McCulloch in the City Series. But look out for us next year, McCulloch. Mary Lou Sweet wanted her name in this column. How does it look, Mary Lou? It seems that each group of Seventh graders that come to Martin Boots get smaller. Are they smaller, or is it just us? Notice to all boys! You haven't any too much room to talk about the girls' shoes because those clod hoppers you are wearing aren't any too dainty. Most every noon period Joe Pfeiffer hands Willidean Jeffry a note. We'd give anything to know what was in them. I think we have a faint idea. The present 9A class was quite disappointed not to be able to go to the State Legislature this year. Heck, we never get the lucky breaks. Better luck to the future nines! The Girls gym classes have many laughs trying to tackle that folk dancing Miss Cagley has initiated into Martin Boots this year. When we call for class President this year guess who comes:-Merrel Coffin with a helping hand. The other oiiicers are: Vice-President, Ferris Carmichael, Secretary, Leonard Laskyg Treasurer, Eugene Packard. We are wondering what is wrong with all the girls this year. Are you afraid to speak for yourselves? Wendell Smith seems to be the man of the hour with some girls in the 9th grade. Not mentioning any names but we think she is a blonde with blue eyes and about five feet five inches tall. We'll let you worry about finding out. Several pleasing remarks have been made about the elegant picture shows that have been shown in Martin Boots this year. They say Keep it ups, Time out for a minute. The 9A's want to thank Mr. Hooker and Mrs. Anderson for the grand three years they have spent in Martin Boots. Thanks to Sally for the elegant program that the mid-term 9A's gave. You really had something there--especially the scene where they sang the Umbrella Man. Warning to those who write notes in Mr. Stafford's Study Hall: Either destroy or conceal them better, because we have decided that collecting them must be his hobby. The three musketeers, Betty McKeown, Lynn Buchanan, and Barbara Merritt. Heck, we can't tell you anything about them. Their heart throbs

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Operetta One of the most important auditorium programs given this year was the operetta, An Old Kentucky Gardenf, Mrs. Brown was in charge of it and the characters were chosen from the music classes. The operetta was based on the music of Stephen Foster. The story took place in an old Ken- tucky garden in the year 1850. Jeanie and her brother, Philip, live with their Uncle, Colonel Staunton. He is a very staunch Southerner and is greatly opposed to Richard Morgan, a Northerner and Philip's college roommate, who wants to marry Jeanie. The Clonel later forgot his prejudice against Richard, however, and everything turned out happily.