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 fltered 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 Battlefeld, 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, starfsh, frogs, junior high science class and the static electric generator that made your hair standing on end, sophomore year class rings (the most