Roosevelt Lincoln Middle School - Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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THE RAIL-SPLI TTER 27 good educations. A half century ago men could work up without an education, but now there are too many people, with whom you have to compete, who have a good education, to be able to do that. Finish your high school course. Yes. for some of you it is very hard. Don't quit school because you haven't as nice clothes as some. After all what do a few rags, we call clothes. matter in comparison with your chance in life. After you have finished your high school you will be able to command much higher wages than you would' be able to get by working now. Do you know that figuring the walue of your school days according to the amount of money made by a high school graduate in a life time. every day you stay in school is worth nine dollars? After you have completed the 8th grade you do not ha ve to continue in school, but think of it in this wayg do you want to be well educated or only have the amount that the state finds necessary for you to take? Think it .over and come back to school next winter. VVhere there's a will there's a way, and if you want to continue you will be able to fi rd some way after school hours to earn money if it is necessary for you to support yourself. . MEMORIES. O, memories! O, past that is, ---Eliot. Memories! How many things the word itself brings up before our mind's eye. Memories happy and sad, of every occasion pass through our minds like pictures in a book. The things of today make the memories of tomorrow. All too soon. our school days will be brief memories. In this little book are hundreds of memory pictures stored for you. We do not realize now the value that we will some day place on this book containing pictures of our teachers, some of our friends and maybe a few ws hom we do not like. ln a few years what a pleasure it will be to look back over our years at junior high school and think of our classmates. Some may be famous, having traveled a long way along the road to success, but no matter where our old classmates are we will always have happy memories of events that occurred in our school days, in common with them. Keep this little book and in a few years you will realize the wisdom in keeping it.

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26 'THE RAIL-SPLITTER AN APPRECIATION OF OUR FACULTY We have reached the conclusion. that it is much better to give a few bouquets while all the members of the faculty can hear us, instead of waiting until we are scattered around the World and then showering compliments upon them when they can not hear us. The junior high school has the best faculty in the world: that we all realize even though we are slow to admit it. Yes, every one of them is splendid---fat ones, thin ones, tall ones, short ones, merry ones. and sad ones, even those who believed in working us to death. After all they did it for our own good. It made no vital difference to them whether we passed with flying colors, or failed by the roadside, except that they were interested in us and wished to make us a success. How far they succeeded remains to be seen. Teachers that we have mold our characters. Many men and women who have made a great success in life can thank the teachers who gave them inspirations. Many teachers whom we now consider old crabs will always be remembered as our-best friends and we will realize how splendid they were in their endeavors to make fine men and women of us. Mr.: Mercer, our principal, has been a friend to all of us during the time we have spent here, as have all the teachers. We take off our hats to our faculty, who have meant more to us than they will ever realize. Words are not adequate to express our debt to them. .l- --11 STICK TO THE SHIP Are you going to stick to thewship or are you going to quit school now and so leave the ship? Now is no time to quit school. Junior high school is not the ending. It is only the beginning. Those whoequit now have really not completed the work they should' have in order to be able to fight the battle of life. In this day and age it is impossible for any boy or girl to get very far without a high school education at the least. No matter what line of work you con- sider, how high can you go without an education? Look at the men who have accomplished great things. Nearly all had

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28 THE RAIL-Slihl TTER BOYS' BASKET BALL TEAM The line up with points made during the season Position Name Goals Free Throws Fouls Forward ..,, .Ragle . - Forward - - - - -Lowe - - Center - .,,. Stevenson .,.. Guard ....... Jung! ---..-- Guard ....... Moore . Substitute-Spunaugle .... Substitute - - Martin - - -----5.--- .--.-0 -------- . ...,.. -13 ........ 19 .-- .---6.-------11 --- ---15 ..... ---20 18--- ---.2--------26 --- ----O--------20 --- ----O--------12 4 The schedule and results of the games. Junior High School- ---. .- -- 20 57 ---38 is ---40 ---29 Kipp High School .---- - - - Niles High School ...-- -.. Kipp High School .-..-. ---- Smolan High school -.--.-- -- Lindsborg Junior High School Boy Scouts Troop 2 .--. - -- -- Junction City junior High . - -- Lindsburg - - -- Abilene - -- Abilene - .. - Junction City - - Sacred Heart ' - - Jamestown ' - - Assaria ' - --