Balboa High School - Zonian Yearbook (Balboa, Canal Zone Panama)

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ln the hallways we meet students rushing to classes, putting books in lockers, talking, and laughing. We glimpse into classrooms and watch students at work. These are the sights found in a hallway in a typical American high school, but the speech that is heard is quite different. For these halls echo the South- ern drawl, the twang of the Middle-west, the strong vowels of the Spanish language. l

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r'----rang al' P ,...,YK't The main office-our first view of the school. A place of constant activity where teachers converge in the morning, at lunchtime, and after school to check their boxes and talk. It is a center of information for the students, a place where they can locate each other and make telephone calls.

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A Typewriter . . . an empty desk . . . a iournalism room perhaps. A room in which the school newspaper is published, where students learn the fine points of newspaper reporting. We walk on and get a closer view of the academic life at Balboa High. We see the students at work in the classrooms. as 5 x ,A A xl. fi I s . i it 4 i J' r