Golden Eagle yearbook overview at Junction High School
The editorial notes outline the 1930s Junction High School annual The Golden Eagle planned to span about eighty pages with sixteen color pages. It highlights sections on color portraits class groups faculty organizations sports eight-page sports section and diversion pages designed by Nancy Durst. It also mentions a May arrival and notes a new senior student Lucky Norwood joining El Paso High School transfers.
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Golden Eagle
Junction High School
Patricia Patterson
Fae Jensen
Nancy Durst
Lucky Norwood
el Paso High School
Commercial Students Re varnish Tables In Dept
Miss Jensen and commercial department students spent Friday January 13 sanding and painting the tables in the commercial room. The scratched initials and ink spots were removed, marking a decided improvement in the Commercial department.
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Miss Jensen
Commercial
Medals On Bulletin Board For Local Students
Fight gold medals are on display in the bulletin board and will be awarded to high school students by year end. Two medals go to best all round boy and girl, four scholarships to top class grade averages, two to valedictorian and salutatorian, encouraging all students to strive for medals.
Sophomore Scrapbook Reflections on Exams
Students recount exam experiences with mixed success in English and history. Algebra I posed the toughest twists, while History II produced several forlorn expressions after the test.
Library fees due for second semester at fifty cents yearly
Library fees for the second semester are due. Each pupil pays fifty cents per year or twenty five cents per semester for library use. Hygeia, a magazine used by physical education classes, has been added to the collection this year.
Juniors Study Liture in English Classes
English 111 students under Mrs. Randolph Ramsey study literature with a focus on short stories and biographies over six weeks. Theme writing will include an original short story. Junction Chapter of F R A hosts Eden District contest at the high school on Saturday January 21 with seven towns represented and each chapter given a 30 minute period to conduct its business.
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Ramsey Randolph
Junction
F. R.A
Eden
Eola
Rocksprings
Millersview
Paint Rock
Melvin
State OF Texas
Kimble County
J. T. Pierce
J.T. Pierce
Texas
A. D
Oscar F. Weins Plantiff
Kimble
John H. Jenkins
Ramsey
Carble County
Polph, Rt
Kim
Study Hall C onrs and smart talk in high school
In a chaotic study hall scene students repeat digs at scholars and teachers. A boy mocks history, a girl about knees faces censure, and seniors are warned by campus cues. The piece leans into school satire with puns, debates, and classroom discipline as Hopkins and Mrs Randolph appear in a sequence of antics.
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Randolph
Soph
Hopkins
Pat
Archer
Max
Gregory
Confucius
Backwood's Broadcast Social Notes and Local To-Dos
Annie Lee attends two dates with Billy and Preston. Mrs. Felps offers encouragement. Sunday night cooking at Ickley’s and Caddo’s Jim, Hazel takes over a fish, Gene catches a cold after dusty days. Edwina bakes lemon pie. Beth is shown off by two young men. Johnstons arrive to lift spirits.
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Annie Lee
Billy
Preston
Gene
Edwina
Beth
Jack
Ickey Lee
Nurse Jarvis
Kerrville
Freddie Mae
Molly
Moocher
Johnstons
Audrey
Gwen
The Great Question on Masculine and Feminine Minds
A student essay argues there is no mental difference by sex and challenges male superiority. It cites A. R. Wallace and other scientists, defends girls as intelligent, notes chores and social roles, and predicts change when romance exposes bias.
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A. R. Wallace
Darwin
Oddities at the Fair at the 1939 New York World's Fair
A parade of unusual attractions dazzles visitors including a parachute tower at 250 feet, revolving magic carpets, a 200 foot Perisphere view, a Tree of Life carved from an 1781 elm, Steve Brodie's Brooklyn Bridge jumps, a vast diamond display, a bathysphere descent, a moon rocket gun, and a model human eye. Additional sights include live milked cows on a revolving platform, Florida orange grove, carnivalesque automobiles with living drivers, the largest opal, an oil well with real drillers, the largest model railroad, 14 foot tall puppets, rotating orchid displays, 10 million volts of lightning, cotton floor, South African Riksha runners, color-changing murals, fireworks to music, a city of midgets, a top atop speedway, giant snowstorms, inside-out buildings, moving chairs, a Venus flight, a 23 foot tall Empire State Building replica, a 200 foot globe on water jets, a singing fountain, nightly painting destruction, and a Fountain of the Atom.
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New York
Connecticut
Steve Brodie
Brooklyn Bridge
Florida
Ricksha
South Africa
Venus
New York City
Empire State Building
Love and Choices in School Economics Course
A discussion on love and choice contrasts girls and boys as a girl can say yes or no. The text notes economics as a one half credit course added last semester. Fourteen students have signed up, including four seniors and ten juniors, taught by Mrs. Ramsey Randolph.
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Ramsey Randolph
Patricia Patterson Shines as Pillar Senior at Junction High
Patricia Patterson stands out as a high school senior at Junction High. She serves as business manager of the Golden Eagle and holds roles in Commercial Club Journalism Club Pep Squad and Student Council as a yell leader and council representative. Her scholastic record is stellar with consistent honor roll status and plans to pursue commercial art after graduation at S M U.
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Patricia Patterson
Golden Eagle
Patty
S. MU
Junction High
Junction Eagles edge Lions in tense district clash
In a defensive thriller the Junction Eagles beat the Ozona Lions 18 to 17 after a late whistle prevented a final counted basket. Murr led the Eagles with ten points as Ozona’s bid ended on a disputed in-air shot.
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Junction Eagles
Ozona Lions
Eagles
Ozona
Murr
High School Days Theme Promotes Student Voices
In pictures and writing, the piece frames daily student life as a shareable record of high school days. It argues every student should have one journal or creative piece to reflect personal actions and thoughts during adolescence.
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Campus Charter
Raitor
Kathryn Bradford
Elizabeth Wright
Caddo Wright
Patty Patterson
Hazel Spiller
Clayton Hopkins
Service Archer
Golden Bag
Saturday Review of Literature
EL Paso
DE Bul
PTIN
Sophoore Scraps
Library
POR. A. Boys
Eden District
Conors
Backwood
Ickey
Glenn
Cam
Ouida
Jim
Caddo
Wanda
Bill
Johnny Stegal
Freddie Gardner
Roy
Kaleta
Kath
Moon
Mars
Venezuela
Ports Review
James Liverman
The
Tex
Michigan
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