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

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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.

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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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THE SK ETCH Things We Never Expect To See Hal Smith with straight hair. Jack Payne without Jean List. Bob Beshore without some candy. Joe Wolf six feet tall. Tom Smith with his Latin. Paul Shrock not a nice fellow. Melvin Blue without his Algebra. Jack Joy not wearing a bright sweater. George Rhetts wearing small shoes. Ruth Ann Pape walking softly. Norma Vossler not blushing. Jeanne Young not a good pianist. .lack Lowden tall. Erneatine Terhune not wearing a bright dress. Mary Lou Sweet without good grades. Harry Taylor pale. Dale McMasters singing soprano. Elbrage Scott not getting scolded in music. Karl Vaughn with tidy hair. Joe Pfeiffer hating basketball. Wendell Smith without his lessons. Jack Sutter without a slight lisp. Betty McKeown serious. Margaret Scheerer and Phyllis Love the same size. Mildred Smelser not practicing piano. A two hour show in the auditorium. Patty Miller not a blond. Students without Spring fever. Jimmy Michos without Leonard Lasky at his heels. Merrel Coffin not playing basketball. Miss Kanter idle. Peggy Goebel without a boy friend. Barbara Loomis without freckles. Mary Witmer thin. Lee Wiley not liking citizenship. Bonnie Smelser fat. Betty Lou Hillsamer getting poor grades in Biology. Mr. Hopkins without a test. Locks on all the lockers. No pushing in the halls between classes. Clenna Endsley without something to say. Eunice Stover talking all period. 7B's going to the right classes. Pat Camp unpopular. All Biology notebooks in on time. Honor Assemblies quiet.