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Title: Junior Achievement

Author: William Lee

Illustrator: John Schoenherr

Release Date: December 30, 2008 [EBook #27665]

Language: English

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_Fallout is, of course, always disastrous--
one way or another_

_JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT_

_BY WILLIAM LEE_

ILLUSTRATED BY SCHOENHERR

[Illustration]

"What would you think," I asked Marjorie over supper, "if I should
undertake to lead a junior achievement group this summer?"

She pondered it while she went to the kitchen to bring in the dessert.
It was dried apricot pie, and very tasty, I might add.

"Why, Donald," she said, "it could be quite interesting, if I understand
what a junior achievement group is. What gave you the idea?"

"It wasn't my idea, really," I admitted. "Mr. McCormack called me to the
office today, and told me that some of the children in the lower grades
wanted to start one. They need adult guidance of course, and one of the
group suggested my name."

I should explain, perhaps, that I teach a course in general science in
our Ridgeville Junior High School, and another in general physics in the
Senior High School. It's a privilege which I'm sure many educators must
envy, teaching in Ridgeville, for our new school is a fine one, and our
academic standards are high. On the other hand, the fathers of most of
my students work for the Commission and a constant awareness of the
Commission and its work pervades the town. It is an uneasy privilege
then, at least sometimes, to teach my old-fashioned brand of science to
these children of a new age.

"That's very nice," said Marjorie. "What does a junior achievement group
do?"

"It has the purpose," I told her, "of teaching the members something
about commerce and industry. They manufacture simple compositions like
polishing waxes and sell them from door-to-door. Some groups have built
up tidy little bank accounts which a