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Friday, June 23, 2023
The Sentinel
I REMEMBER WHEN
A place of memories…Juniata Joint High School JEFF ZIMMERMAN
Juniata Joint High School Class of 1966 The life lessons that our teachers, coaches and advisors instilled in us have lasted a lifetime. These memories are in no particular order as they have been filtered through the cobwebs of my mind. To get there and back, we town kids needed to walk the “Brick Hill,” 7th grade class dues were 10 cents a week, study halls in the cafeteria or auditorium, you needed a hall pass, restroom pass, library pass, pep rallies on Fridays, dances/record hops in the auditorium after football
games, assemblies, Friday dress-up days, activity periods for club meetings, student council, varsity club, Hi-Y for boys and Tri-Hi Y for girls, morning announcements with Stars to Steer By, speech class, WJUN Radio School News, Tomahawk Tales, magazine sales campaigns, prom peanuts, class trips to Hershey Park, Gettysburg Battlefield, American Viscose Corp., senior trip to Washington D.C. where you could go to a play such as Barefoot in the Park or to a major league baseball game between the Washington Senators and the Kansas City Athletics, shop class projects, pump handle lamp, a spice rack,
tin cookie cutters, a chisel, football, basketball, baseball, girls’ basketball and softball teams were outstanding, girls’ basketball had six girls on a team (one or two of which were called a rover), wrestlers running the halls to cut weight, Juniata Joint short sleeve and long sleeve sweatshirts sold by student council, gym uniforms, the snack bar at home football games, POD bulletin boards, chemistry and physics experiments, biology dissection of earthworms, starfish, frogs, junior high science class and the static electric generator that made your hair standing on end, sophomore year class rings (the most
expensive was perhaps $25), the sophomore dance, class hats in the class colors, class hat day, the Juniatian yearbook, signing yearbooks, ”A Vacancy in Paradise” (junior class play) and “Wildcat” (senior class musical), decorating for the junior prom, slow dancing with Charlie at the prom, after-prom parties, square dancing at the after graduation party, learning to drive a standard transmission (three on the tree) in driver ed class, locker keys, the phone booth by the cafeteria/office, “the bench” by the office, school lunches cost 30 cents, weiner winks, the milk machine, intramural nights,
August 18 and double days football practices, Saturday morning basketball practices, Homecoming and May Day programs, your best girl would get one of your cufflinks, football, baseball and softball were all played on Dietrick Field, varsity J sweaters and a lasting memory for me was in the winter of ‘63 - the Sadie Hawkins Dance with a special girl. We won a “spot dance.” The prize was a cake with jelly beans on it. And, she won my heart. Ahhh yes, I remember it well.
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