Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Theodore Roosevelt junior High School Marjorie Smith was excitedly telling her chums from California, Catherine Duane, Alice Lent, and Polly Wayne of her first semester at the new Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School. The girls sat with wide open eyes, plainly surprised to hear Marjorie talk so excitedly about school during vacation time. Oh girls, it's the most beautiful place, began Marjorie. uYou know how pretty it is on the outside, for you've seen it, but the inside is twice as nice. The halls are so big and wide, and our lockers are built in, and oh, girls, we have the prettiest drink' ing fountains in the halls with Mosaic pictures above every one of them! Chl oh! oh, gasped the girls in wonder. Lunch is the most fun, continued Marjorie, we have a great big cafeteria and it's more fun to eat there! just think, there are fortyfthree tables and about four hundred pupils are served each lunch hour. We have such delicious lunches that mother says she wishes that she lived nearer the school so she could buy her lunch, too. We have visitors almost every day and they don't forget to come a second time, either. Vx7e've already had six banquets. ' ' Polly, who was too fond of good things to eat, sighed deeply at the mention of banquets. Do you go swimming? asked Alice, to whom sports always came first. Ch, my yes. We have the most wonderful swim' ming pool, over eight hundred pupils elected swim' ming, so the pool is always full. You'd like our big gym, too, Alice, because it has everything an athletic girl like you could wish for. What's that big room with all the windows that ' J you can see from the outside? asked Catherine. Oh, that's the Aud, explained Marjorie, Hand ' we have good times there, too. We have had some of the best assemblies this year. Each grade is in charge of an assembly at some time or other, and we surely do eagerly wait for our turn. The period during which we have assembly we call social activity period, and we have it every day. Twice a week it is used for assemblies and the other days we have club meet' ings or do our banking. Cn Mondays we always have Home Room Club. Then each pupil goes to his room and school problems and parties, and oh, almost everything is discussed. We have ofhcers, too, and follow real parliamentary order. We have opporf tunity clubs, too. What are opportunity clubs? asked the inquisitive Catherine. Oh, they're to help pupils who get behind in some subject that may be especially hard for them, like Latin or Algebra, you know, and they do help, very much. AUDITOR IUM LIBRARY ..- - 1 SWHVIMING POOL lSl

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I wish I could belong to an arithmetic opportunity clubfsighed Alice,whose weak point was mathematics, but we don't have them in our school. Everyone has to belong to at least one club, you see, and almost everybody gets a chance to hold some ofiicef' Don't you ever have any hard studies? asked Alice. Why certainly we do, answered Marjorie indignantly, What do you think school is for? These clubs and assemblies are education, just as well as lessons. We have six hours of regular lessons a day. We study onefhalf of the period, then recite during the other half. I take cooking, and I like it the best of any subject because we have every' thing imaginable to use in a kitchen, and we serve the meals we cook, in the dining room. - W7 '1 Do you mean to tell me that you have a real honf estftofgoodness dining room? asked Alice in wonder. L'We certainly do, and it's beautiful, too. We have a large table, twelve chairs, host and hostess chairs, a tea cart and two builtfin china closets. Besides we have a lovely rug and cretonne curtains. We just love to cook meals and serve them there. Mother says I've really learned how to cook many things and how to keep a kitchen looking spic and span, Marjorie added proudly. We have a sewing department,too, she continued, also fully equipped where beautiful clothes made by the girls in sewing classes are always on exhibition. And-oh, I mustn't forget our library. It's a large room containing nine large tables. What I like best is a huge fireplace of carved Bedford stone. It gives the room such a cosy appearance. Everybody loves to study there. We are allowed to take books from our library to read and keep them a week. COOKING CLASS At this moment, Bobby, Marjorie's brother, came ' ' ' from the house. TRAFFIC SQUAD Do you like the junior High School as well as Marjie, Bob? asked Polly. It's keen, all right, answered Bob in his usual good English I joined the Radio Club this afternoon and we had a swell meeting up in the tower room. k'Bob's a traffic officer, too, said Marjorie proudly, he directs all the pupils across the street after school. Oh, that's nothing, said Bob, blushing. Marf jorie is the captain of the Sanitary Officers, who keep school clean and neat. I miss band practice now dur' ing vacation, he added as he sauntered off. Do you have a band? asked Catherine. GYMNASIUM ' 4 Oh yes, and an orchestra too. The band is quite large, and the orchestra already has fortyfone pieces and is growing fast. I wish I went to a junior High School, too, sighed Alice. They certainly are the best ever, and I wish you could go too, said Marjorie loyally. MSO do we, sighed the girls. I9l