Palmer High School - Terror Trail Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Physical Education N l Teresa Burhrmk, I. W. Erps, W. H. Preston, Rhoda Dentan, Coral Sherwood. Miss Lillian Iohnson and Mr. Newton Win- burne. Past and famous debates with historical values are held by the members of Mr. A. F. Handke's and Mr. L. D. Votaw's debate- history class. Now let's take a look at Miss E. Parson's fine arts-history class, which was started for the purpose of introducing to the students the essentials of the line arts, music, poetry, painting, and sculpture. l History is truly a useful and practical sub- ject which is very aptly offered to us. Ballets and Baskets I One, two, three, slap, hop, kick, and slide. No, not a football game, just a new tap step in one of the dances which each girl is required to originate in the advanced girls' gym class. That soulful groan came from someone trying that new exercise: you remember it, don't you? It's the one you never could see just what it did for you fyou only felt itj. In one corner we see some girls shooting baskets, while in the other is a group going through some very queer antics. If we were to ask, they would tell us that they were tumbling flet's just take their word for itl. l Now take a peep at those boys swinging on the parallel bars like, shall we say, their ancestors? But, you should see them cavort around while doing a polka. Both boys and girls have regular marching and exercises. They meet together once a week to learn to l17

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N 1 Social Science Department W. S. Still, Lillian johnson, L. D. Votaw, O. P, Lrc, Erncstinc Parsons. from the sixteenth through the twentieth century. I Look at that journalism class slaving to put out the Lever every Friday. They do a nice job of it, too. l Put it all together and you have the English Department. Maps and Man I With maps tgeographically speakingl, thick texts, battles, and all sorts of dates lhistorical of coursej, time staggers on. Time staggers on, and history is made. I In our sophomore year we became ac- l6l quainted with ancient and medieval history and from there graduated to the cherry tree episode and our own democracy. ln the senior classes there are discussions, debates, and reference reading. We must study our Ameri- can Observers lWeekly News Reviews to the sophomoresl. In these papers the students are given an unbiased opinion on the current problems of today. l The last few years, there has been added a dash of speech, debate, and line arts. ln the speech history class the students are required to prepare their own speeches, and also to give their interpretation of the famous speeches of history. This class is under the direction of

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Science Department ifiusi' Row. E. i1..ii,10m. w. H. smut. SECOND ROW: W. E. Davis. C. H. Graves. W. R. Willis, Dorothy Lagerhnrg. Mary Avery, L. O. Iackson. X stay off each others toes while tripping the light fantastic on the gym floor of C. S. H. S. Heres to all our future athletes for bigger and better muscles. Electricity and Endoplasm I Terrific smells, excelled only by the odors of our own cafeteria, come from the chemistry room as they mix bases or acids or what have you. No wonder that girl in the biology class is squealing: just look at those big, fat, squashy. expressionless worms they are dissecting. Then there is physics, which might be described as a scientific introduction to the highly scientific, mechanical, electrical world in which we live. I In these subjects we find the answers to I8 l such questions as: Why do we have bones? What caused Pikes Peak? What are such things as vernier calipers, galvanometers and radiometers? I With all of this we have fossils idon't get me wrongl, explanations of how and why we came to be here ioften we wonderl, lectures. and soulful sighs of sleeping students. All in all the Science Department. I They are a wonderful group, this faculty of ours. Truly, they are our friends: perhaps we shall never realize to what a great extent. We couldn't get along without them, though perhaps, not always with them. We have to give them their due praise, but still- free session, please leave promptly, sounds all right. In fact, it sounds heavenly.