Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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WVAJSI on the way, be sure to keep your eyes open for a red-head, for we have to get a red hair somewhere. just as we were nearing the bird cage, jerry dashed off like a real sprinter. What's the big attraction? Walt asked Janet. Ml don't know.--Oh, yes, l do. lt's a red-head, replied Janet. ul-le's returning now at full speed. Must have good news. Whew, ejaculated Jerry when he had caught his breath. Well, l got the hair. l had an awful time talking her into giving it to me, but she did finally consent. just then we spied another group of our scavenger hunters, who were not so successful with their collection. We'd better hurry, anyway, urged Walt. We got our Capybara description from one of the zoo attendants. Upon checking up on our list, found that we had only two more things to get: colored water from the fountain and a spinning top from a Cracker jack box. We were rather tired at this stage of the game anyway, so we decided that some refreshments might renew our energy. First, we bought some soda, but we saved some of it for the fountain water, since the fountain wasn't running. Then we bought some Cracker jacks, hoping to get a spinning top in one of the boxes. First, janet opened her box. instead of a spinning top, her prize was a little tin bracelet that broke the first time she wore it. Walt opened his box next. How disgusting! A watch! Then l opened my box, and just imagine my thrill when I saw a little tin tank to be used when playing Hsoldieru. Well, ,Ierry's box was our last hope, for we needed just this one thing to complete our collection. We weren't superstitious, but, nevertheless, we held our thumbs while Jerry hastily opened the box. Oh, joyl There was a spinning top. Triumphant, we hurried back to the camping grounds where a welcome fire was crackling, for the air had begun to grow cool as the sun sank. After we had taken our fill of good things to eat, the scavenger collections were judged, and who do you think won? We did, by a spinning top and a pollywogl CAROLYN LORENZ MIDNIGHT Ghosls stalk the moor at midnight, The winds whine and twist over slushy, heathered earth after the rain. The lank hound bemoans the potential advent of the day, Fallen, monster irees lie upon the earth like naked, unburied corpses, While worms, devouring the flesh of the dead, grouel in the glory of the dirt. -Bob Lewis Term 2 Twenty-four

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WVZAJNI Well, you must have missed the four corner columns that can't be seen so well from here, for I count fifty-four, said Jerry. Nope, you're both wrong. There are fifty-eight columns. I've checked and double checked, said Walt. However, after we had all counted the columns again, we arrived at the conclusion that we were all wrong, for there are fifty-six columns. I..et's see, we still have to get some red hair, a l929 penny, a spinning top from a box of Cracker Jack, history of a Capybara, and some colored water from the fountain. Does either of you have a I929 penny? Mine are l928, and I934. I don't. Nor I. Same here. Well, we simply have to get one. Margie told me that her group had one when we were on our way to the opera. There's only one way to do it, said Janet in her practical mannerg 'iwe'll have to ask everyone we see if he has one. Surely someone will have one. Since you suggested it, you may have the honor of being the first to ask, retorted jerry, who was none too fond of the idea. Ah, here comes someone now. Ask him. Here goes. Pardon me, sir, but do you have a I929 penny that you would be willing to trade for a i928 penny? Do I what? asked the gentleman with surprise. Have a 1929 penny. After a moment's inspection, No, l'm afraid I don't have any penni-es. Would a l929 nickel do? No, thank you. And off we scurried, headed for a parked auto. Walt took the responsibility of being the interviewer this time. 'Scuse me, but do you have any I929 pennies? Can't say that I do, replied the stranger without looking. O, K. Thanks, returned Walt with a disgruntled air. Might as well amble on, gang. It doesn't seem as if we'll get a penny. Aren't many people out here to ask. Might as well stop and think of what we'll do next, offered Jerry, who was dried out by now. Hey, sonny, shouted a voice from the parked car. Yes, sir, returned Walt, who realized that he was being addressed. I-Iere. I just found this. With this statement, the stranger handed Walt a copper cent with i929 plainly stamped on it. Thanks, so much, Walt replied enthusiastically. lf we hadn't waited here, we wouldn't have received this. There must be some truth in the old proverb, Haste makes waste, go slowly. We'd better go to the zoo now and get our Capybara descriptiong and Twenty -three

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WVATMC BELIEVE IT OR NOT l' june l9l3 the lawn mowers in Forest Park were condemned. At the suggestion of Dwight T. Davis, then park commissioner, thirty sheep were purchased and turned loose in Forest Park. Before being turned loose, the sheep were sheared and the profit from the sale of the wool was spent to buy eight more sheep. Mr. Davis expected the sheep to keep the grass short and believed uthat there would be no further use for the lawn mowers except around entrance gates. Star-Times Clipping of l9l3. Forest Park, containing l,380 acres, is the third largest park in America. Art Hill, the largest natural arphitheatre in the world, was the council grounds of the great Indian nations of the past. It can accommodate between 75,000 and l00,000 people. BONNIE LEE DE GONIA NIGHT Hazy moonlight-golden soft-- Paints a path across the lake. Tiny stars peep from aloft Down upon the sleeping brake. Far into the vault of night The wandering clouds haue flown- Billowing in trackless flight Into the great unknown. Crooning breezes kiss the trees- Green leaves tremble with delight- Night hawks call their rhapsodies That echo strangely in the night. -Lester Epstein Term 7 Q .N C. uf J Twenty-Hue