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

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Sky Conklin and Mary Miller explain a trig problem. Arriving... What is the primary purpose of education? “Gruesome question, isn't it?” We began by being entranced by the fun of it. Oh. yes. we carried books and appeared in class, but it was those meetings in the hall or that walk home from school that provided the thrill. A basket- ball game Friday night with the Sock Hop on Saturday was far more important than a D” in biology. Or, it was. once. Now. it’s the term paper, the trip to Arena Stage, or that original sonnet that takes the spotlight. The change was gradual: but a teacher's explanation, a parent's question, a sudden idea on Senior Day startled us into realizing that the primary purpose of school ivas educational—text books first, then the social side. 18

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Mental... “Why, mommy?” idly lisps the cherub of three. But I don't see why ...” shrugs the gram- mar school boy. “The reason why is ... ” states the high school student. And in the three quotes is the span of mental growth. From the first moment of questioning or wondering, the whole process begins. The mind becomes alert to its surroundings and with good parents and teachers, with happy homes and schools, the inner 1” reaches outward and upward. At B-CC where busy traffic swirls past our door, the same school bus that brings us to school also carries the elementary and grammar school child on to his school building. Those younger children pass through our halls, across our grounds, and into our hearts. As they are now. we once were! The thought doesn't strike us too frequently or stay with us very long, but as we wend our way from a complex sentence to a term paper, from a plus sign to a cosine, from test tubes to atomic energy, we re vaguely aware that this part of our growth and change is one that each and every other cherub will endure as he proceeds to the status of scholar. 17

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Beowulf . . . moratorium . . . cosine . . . Poe . . . amoeba . . . valence—once odd sounding words now familiar. They stand for three years of our lives—years spent in learning. Powerful words, to have changed us so. Perhaps the fun of school seemed the most important part at the time, but now that it’s over, we realize that the words did affect us. that we have grown and changed because of them. Look at us. You can’t see the biggest change, the one within us. The odd-sounding words have worked invisibly—on our minds. Now. we are leaving: but the words remain to change students next year and the next . . . SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS: Mary Van Meter. Historian: Elizabeth Springston. Corre- sponding Secretary: William Towne. President: Arline Bcman. Vice-President: Judith Din- woodey. Recording Secretary: Nancy Antrim. Treasurer: Samuel Syme. Parliamentarian: Mackey Titus. Committee Mcmber-at-Large: Robert Borroflf. Committee Member-at-Largc; Nancy Eggleston. Chaplain. SCHOOL