North Junior High School - Argus Log Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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E ARGUS LUPGPPP it THE CIRCUS Shrieking of Cannibals, shouting of bally-hoo men. blaring of the band. antics of clowns. made circus clay at North junior a merry one. Featuring a splendid new attraction, a colorful and beautiful health pageant, the great Ring-a-Ling Circus repeated its annual success. On Wednesday. May tirst, a performance was given for grade school students, an enthusiastic audience. This was repeated on Thursday for the students and faculty of North junior. :Xt that time, hot-dog and balloon vendors shouted their wares. while the clowns made merry. Friday night the circus spirit worked itself into its highest pitch of excitement in the per- formance for adults. The rollicking evening of entertaimnent was brought to a glorious climax by the humorous antics of the clown band playing hil- ariously on tin cans, dishpans. and heaters. Compliments from the patrons proved their appreciation. The acts in the order of their appear ance follow: The Parade of all Performers :Xnimals The Freaks Educated Horse Marionette Show, Jack and the Cannibals Bean Stalk. Health Pageant lf:3.SlZ -Point Cadets Snake Charmer Clown Act Dancers Tight Rope Act Tumblers Indians St1'O110' Man D All-Clown Parade Q. 49

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THE ARGUS LOG CITIZENSHIP CAMPAIGN The fall of 1928 witnessed the opening of the Citizenship Campaign. The form of the campaign was based upon the plan for national election. The pupils of North Junior were divided into four sections or parties, each section selecting a name by which to be represented. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Byrd, and Lindbergh were the names of the four parties. A campaign man- ager was elected by each faction. Party platforms were arranged that stated the requirements of proper citizenship, and the bulletin boards also gave vivid ideas of a lit citizen. Pep assemblies encouraged the students to their goal. '33 '82 '33 HEALTH CAMPAIGN The spring ushered in a memorable campaign. The contest appeared in radio station form. Daily, during lunch hours, stations AYH, HHH, GHGH, and AYTH broadcasted their total number of points in the Magic Quest for Health, the object of the campaign. In roll call rooms each stu- dent received a chart on which he checked day by day the number of points that he disobeyed the rules of health. Bulletin boards exhibited vivid illustrations of each stationis points of health. The members of each class greatly helped their station in securing points by making clever health scrap books. The close of the campaign was full of competition, AYH win- ning. The campaign culminated in the Great Ring-a-Ling Circus on May Day. NORMAN ASTOR 'H-3 '33 '23 48

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CCCCCT iiii LOG Y NEW ATHLETIC PLAN There has been a new athletic plan adopted at North Junior High School. This system is so arranged and managed that every student in school is given a chance to participate in athletics. The old system, as it was, gave only an opportunity to those players who were the best in the school. If a poor player did not have a chance to get on the one Varsity team it was not likely that he would come and play. Thus the chance to gain a better knowledge of the sport and also sports- manship is lost to a poor player because he knows he can be substituted by a better player than himself. In the newer way to manage sports, each roll call room is represented by a person in the Athletic Committee of the school. Through this person the Athletic Committee aims to interest the whole class in Athletics. This Committee makes rules, regulations, and manages all sports. This year the sport seasons have been more successful than any other preceding year in the history of North Junior. In the soccer season last' fall several classrooms were united to get a team. These teams were organized by the Athletic Managers who had full control of their teams. Each team would play another team of the same league to find out which was the best. This championship team for each grade played a similar team from South and Central Junior High Schools. More people played in the past basketball season than any year before. Basketball and volley ball were managed about the same as soccer and proved very successful. Baseball proved the biggest hit this year. Teams were organized and intermural games started in March. Umpires and scorers were chosen among the student body according to their ability to oiiticiate. These officials had full control while on the field. Messrs. O'Shea and Holcomb supervised all the school sports, to their utmost success. I This past school year was more successful than ever before in sports inasmuch as more pupils turned out because they knew that there was a chance to play and cleveloppliysically as Well as mentally. 'We, the students of North Junior, believe in a sane mind in a healthy body. ' ' JOSEPH ASHKER 50