Bethesda Chevy Chase High School - Pine Tree Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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With Growth Comes Change Remember when? Those magic words take us all back to some wonderful time. In years to come, so will this, our 1952 PINE TREE. From snub-nosed youngsters to sedate seniors, we've grown and grown. We've changed too! Our experience at Bethesda-Chevy Chase proves that “WITH GROWTH COMES CHANGE.” Survey the scene! New buildings, new teachers, and new students. New clubs, new activities, and new rules. Those rules! Lunch according to A and B schedule ... or was it B and A? Staggered assemblies all morning long because we'd outgrown the seating capacity of the gymnasium. No smoking in “The Grove because the construction had begun on the new classroom and administration building. Extra minutes added to each class period but subtracted from the lunch period. And some members of the faculty joined enthusiastically into the changing scene by changing names. Change, adjust, evaluate, and change again. But we were not alone: the newspapers and radios and TV's told of other, more world-shaking changes. We were aware of those changes, but for us. our growth and change as students and young adults was centered around our high school. BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE.

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Material... Say. when was this school first built?” a curious visitor asked a passing sophomore. Oh. part of it's always been here. They just add a little each year to confuse us! Confusing it is! But B-CC hasn't always been here. We began our career in a brand-new building at the corner of East-West Highway and Cheltenham in 1935. Two years later we added a classroom building and a gym- nasium. Our guidance department also started operation in 1937. As the years went by and civilization encroached upon the pine woods surrounding B-CC. we. too. continued growing. New courses were added to the curriculum such as the driver training course which was added in 1946. That year. Montgomery Junior Col- lege had its start in an old Army barracks on B-CC grounds. By 1950, when MJC moved to more pretentious quarters, we claimed their abandoned building and spread out into C” building. We also saw the completion of our cafeteria that year and the beginning of a new gymnasium. Since last year our student body has increased by 97 and the faculty has added ten members. We have seen the dedication of our new gymnasium and have been watching still another building grow atop the cafeteria, a future D building. Although all this con- struction sometimes results in confusion as we find our way from one building to another, it can truly be said that we have learned our A . B”. “C” ’s. 7