Burroughs High School - Burro Yearbook (Ridgecrest, CA)

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IN A LABORATORY WHICH LOOKS OUT ON SAGEBIUSH AND STONY DESERT Hlll5, THREE INYOKERN CHEMISTS EXPERIMENT ON FUELS WITH WHICH TO DRIVE FUTURE SUPERIOCKETS Desert community is center for lu lhm: miulnllc of thc lifeless California ml:-sr-rt, filiinilvs XH'Slfll.DC1lllI V:1llvy,li0S z1modc-v'u,glr-ziln- mg toun of 12,000 pvoplr. ll is xx vonilnlluity of -4-it-ntisls brought logcther hy thc US. Navy lo In-lp solve lhf: prohlsms of mosh-ru xxui'liax'r-. llf-rc, ui u sc-lling of szmrl flats zuul jutliug peaks, 500 lop-flight chi-mists, physicists and 1-Iigiilvrrs. Sup- plivsl uilh the bust of scicutifir: 1-quipmuut, have vroutvtl one of the grvat rt-search cc-ntr-rs of thc world. The town is ollicially called thc Inyokcrn Naval Unlnanvo Test Station, anal its main purpose is to Pagr' Four PHOTOGRAPHS FOR LIFE BV J. R. EYERMAN Jr-vn-lop tho supm-rror-lt:-ls zuul guiflr-nl mi-silw u ith uliivh uurs ol' ilu- fulura' prolullvly nill ln' fought. Une group of lnyolwrn sr-if-ntisls. lu uhh-h tho c-hvniists nlvow lu-long. is spr-viii:-.illy ussigiu-rl to this mol'l-t.'l'lu'v1'olu'1-ulr.1lr'ou-ur-h prolrln-ms uf thenh-wlopnmf-nt ol'ro1'ltx-I propelltull- .xml lhv im- provffmrul of ram jr-l vngim--. 'liln' sc-tonml group, which inmrlufls-s It-ailing suis-ntists from linixn-rsilivs all ovc-1' the country, is frm- to use Navy vquip- mcnt for pure rr-sr-arm-h, ruuging from Ihr: study of cosmic' rays to the causf' of night glon in tho sky. Thx- Navy rt-vif-us Ihr' findings in the hopc secret research lrl.4liw1'0V0l'IIlj.Z sonu-thing useful for militrlry pur- P05954 lu rr-tum for ilu- privilvgv of uorlting uith lNavy mom-3 uml 1-quiplnvnt thc- wit-ntists must put up nilh thu- 'lm-lllrlc-ml lift- of tho :lt-wrt com- munity . Tha- lix ing ur:-ri, rm-41-..u'm-li lalnolulorivs zmvl lhv ilu-lorim-s nhl:-h makf- rortlwts mul ollu-r ord- nunrl- ure- surrounflwl hy high fviwr-s mul guurmlc-ul hy lnurim-Q. Rarely 'loc-s ons- group of -an-if-ntisls ltnow what lhv others urs- doing. But thcy are rs'- muulwl of lhr' svriousm-ss of their rcsc'a1'1:li lay thc- thucl of 11 rovlwt lanrliug on the desert floor. -Courtesy of Life Magazine'

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Flllillllllllll We, the Senior class of Sherman E. Burroughs High School, take pleasure in presenting the third edition of the EL BURRO, a diary of school activities. The goal of the annual class has been to publish an accurate and interesting account of school life in a new and different manner. We wish to transmit by way of our theme, the newspaper article, the important part teen-agers play in making the news of this com- munity. Class projects, Stall activities, dances, athletic events, Student Council proceedings - many facets in the lives of the students at B. H. S. are portrayed on the pages of this book. We wish to extend you a personal invitation to accompany us on a tour through the fun and frolic of this past year. We sincerely hope that this EL BURRO will be one that you will cherish as a source for memories of one of the best years of your lives. 1 THE EDITORS Page Three

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FEATURES IEIRQEICEHS SCHOOLS In the February 16 issue of LIFE, NOTS, one of the great research centers of the world,', was featured in a nine page article presenting pictures of the base and its inhabitants and many facts about our life and work here. Built over the past four years at a cost of more than S100 million dollars, it is located in the center of a military reservation which covers 1,000 square miles and is almost as large as the state of Rhode Island . . . 'tlnyokernis research program covers everything from fundamental physics to optics but is mainly directed toward the development of rockets . . . The study of cosmic rays and the upper atmosphere is about as 'pure' as research can get. So is the Held of microtime, in which Inyokern scientists are learning how to examine phenomena which occur in a sorh of a millionth of a second . . . Dr. L. T. E. Thomp- son, Inyokern's technical director says, 'Wfhen men finally know without a doubt that to start a war will mean to destroy themselves, there will be no more wars. Pictures of the students on the school grounds and in The Stall were included, and, of course, after pub- lication there was heated discussion. Some objected to LIFE's calling our area some of the deadest land on earth, and others commented on the confusing of the town of Inyokern with the Naval Ordnance Test Station. Over a year ago the magazine PAGEANT wrote of us as if we were a blend of The Last Frontier and Buck Rogers, the implication being that we all car- ried six-guns to school. Last June the Saturday Eve- ning Post wrote of us in an extensive and colorful article. The intention of Burroughs School is to live up to the prominence such national publication gives us. Pictures and quotations reprinted by special ar- rangffmcfnt with LIFE magazine. Wz 'ff