Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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ROOSEVELT 1935 lf21 9A's in February I February, icicles, snowballs. XVill I pass? . . . Pretty chilly for the little boy and girl graduates from Roosevelt. . . but they say it's not so cold as one imagines . . . at Senior High . . . and then Spring is just around the corner . . .don't forget. This semester Roosevelt sends 164 to higher education across the river . . . all full of hope, and fears . . . with loads of memories about good times, parties, fun, and friends. According to VanDuyn, popular band boy and class lawyer, his classmates were generous up to the very last-Charles Shedd, it seems, left his studious efforts, attentiveness, innumerable A's to little Roger Atkinson . . . Leo C uppini and President Bob Braddy gave their interest in the XVoman's Department Store at Beloit to -Ioe Brown and Mato C .... Chuck Cavanaugh bequeathed two sticks of gum to Jeanne French . . . Sorry, Jeanne. but that was all he had left from the package he bought two weeks ago . . . Jean Foster insists upon Mary Densmore having use of her imported fingernails, now that she no longer needs them . . . Vtfoodrow Cass was lucky enough to get Bob Selby's method of getting out of class as a traffic officer . . . you know, the traffic cops . . . and getting out of class . . . John Gibb, the boy with the razor edge crease in his trousers, gave same to Edwin Fissinger . . . Bob Schuldt conferred his beloved Civics book and all notes appertaining to same . . . a monumental gift withal . . . to Vernon Finch . . . great responsibility, Finch . . . Marion Reid left her ability to take a joke to John Blake . . . Blake takes life too seriously, anyway . . . Russ Ander- son bequeathed his gnaranteed, money-back permanent wave to Bob McKay . . . Height was portioned out by Hulten and Key to Knodle . . . Knodle, by the way, seems to be doing pretty well by himself in this respect. After class day, therefs the class play-T110 My.m'ry of thc' Dark Room- cleverly written by members of room 216 . . . given Saturday, January 26, in Roosevelt auditorium . . . characters are clever people . . . including Grogan, Gibb, Helman, LaSalla, Beckington, Bryden, Cotta, and Bregach. Honors assembly-great occasion . . . it pays to work while at Roosevelt when one will be ready to take a bow with Mr. Muth . . .much applause... . . . SCHOLARSHIP awards to Betty Ross, Dorothy Rodwell, Marion Reid, Cleo Morton, Margaret Mikkelsen, Luraine Johnson, Margaret Haley, Wlilliam Gould, Ruth Fager, Arthur Duree, Lorraine Bell, Evelyn Beere, Norma Wiinget, Kathleen Roe . . . PERFECT ATTENDANCE awards to Phyllis Hutton, Betty Ross, and Andrew Wfehrlen . . . BOYS' ATHLETIC awards to Robert Braddy, Leo Cuppini, Russell Anderson, Robert Carlson, Wfeldou Luvisi, Junior Muder, Ernest Grazioli, Veto Gelafio, Rodney Thorne, .lack VanDuyn . . . GIRLS' ATH- LETIC AVVARD to Katherine Bryden, Lucille Eaton, Irma Pontius, Helen Ray- mond, Eleanor Beckington, Phyllis Hutton, Dorothy Rodwell, Ada Fristad, Margaret Mikkelsen, Etta Munro, Loretta Brunner, Irene Olson, Mary Falzone, Florence Lo Piccolo, Marion Mandell . . . TRAFFIC OFFICER awards to Richard Mincemoyer, NN' alter Roberts, Felix T uminskas, Frank Ferruggia, Myles Richard- son, Elliott Mayfield, Louis Houseweart. Lester Key, Marden Kingman, Bob Carlson . . . STUDENT COUNCIL awards to Kenneth Brace, Norma jane Vklinget. and Mary Falzone . . . GIRL SANITARY OFFICER awards to Mary Castiglione and Martha Lembke and BOY SANITARY OFFICER awards to Russell Anderson and Edward Leach . . . REPORTERS' CLUB awards to Dorothy Rodwell and XVendell Marston . . . Fine record, but only a beginning, dear children . . . make Roosevelt proud of you . . . work twentv-six hours out of every twenty-four. if possible-and you will always have our good wishes and sincere hopes for your success.