Roosevelt High School - Rough Rider Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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1 Zim A x E.. MC' Fe -1 ,Q . gf , . ws . ,,,..wr .A The inner man revealed. Mrs. Speigel shows Rose Marie Caputo, .ludy Wilkinson, and Sandra Butler the real, inside story in all its gory detail. l've got him! From the expression on the faces of these geometry students, they must have caught a bug in the maze of geometric lines. Marie Lancaster and Bill Shoemaker are the students. What is there about a mathematics classroom or a laboratory that makes it so difterent from any other room in the school? To be sure a chem lab hasn't desks or chairs, but a geometry classroom is the same as any other room. It has the same number of black- ik, 1-'iff , , DPM' . . x!N AV , ' :JU li'-fl l ' L 5'A A B AD? MARGARET c. AMIG yy hemistfyfl Algebra - fvki Pli-ygitis Geometry T Trigonometry 'Q boards, seats, chalk, and erasers. Perhaps in the lab it's the shiny crispness or the unusual odors seeping out ot the chemical storeroom, but in a math class there are no such physical devices to make it different. What is that typical atmosphere that surrounds such a place? Nowhere else is there the same air of precision and exactness, demanding the best of every student, nowhere else is there a fear of not living up to expectations. Remember the sinking feeling in your stomach when the teacher asked you to prove two parallelograms equal, or when you mistakenly cut through the pulmonary vein thinking that it was a piece of muscle, or even when you bubbled your breath into a test tube of limewater to test for CO, to find to your horror that it turned pink insead of the customary white? Not only are these exact subiects, they are living ones. They rudely invade our privacy at the most un- expected moments. On the way home from school we see the grass, trees, plants--chlorophyll. Windows,

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Sur l ' R Q' , 1- ve- A , H XX + x FRANK J. AUGUST GABRIEL E. FERAZZI Physical Education Physical Education 3 f , sr , s--f' 3 ith' JOEY KAUFMAN HERMAN LHTMAN Physical Education play refreshes drowsing spirifs ,, J- if f' lt we , Physical Education ,lM,x1f Uhcl 33 il ax lite The Intramural Basketball Champs, '56, Al Lclacono, Mike Bradley, Irv Burdett, Ronnie Warren, and Larry Diamond, of 202-8. How we love our exercise! The poor victims gasp out the count for deep knee bends. w A We 6f,.v'JJ Vy,.,W , Q 1 v

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--nn:-. ',, .,h,,,, -if., ,.1 4' ya. , , fs je sw I -P-'rs .. I 1 , . ,W ,,..-ex Phyllis Ashman may think that her innocent partners are dislilling water, but if she should taste the final product- Wow! 86.6 proof. Left to right: Dennis Werber, Nicholas Spithas, Phyllis, und Bruce Edkins. Ir must be for giant equations, snickers Henry Wallace to Malia Vc-inbergs about the huge slide-rule Miss Amig is holding, Left to right: Miss Amig, John Heyman, Maiia Veinbergs, Henry Wallace, Stuart Berlin. bricks, tree trunks have suddenly become rectangles, squares, cylinders. Sitting down to dinner, someone asks, Please pass the salt. -sodium chloride! Baking a cake one day you find to your surprise that baking powder is calcium acid phosphate! we .5 Here in the sciences, as in no other place, are found accuracy, alertness, and keenness of mind. brisk science iolfs us fo acfion EDDIE DICKERT KATHERINE OWEN MARIE M. SMITH BERNICE S. SPEIGEI. Algebra Biology Geometry Biology Applied Mathematics Applied Mathematics gr N 5 7 M' I' 'sk' 5 5 f 5, ,N it Y -1:7 . ,gg x. t K 'C' ts, , i N. 's in -' ,GA f. z . 'L i J Vffr' 'X I t K J, , Nl' , ' .,' .I , yr . I, ,- -'f - I , f s H JEANETTA WRIGHT Chemistry Physical Science .5 t Y W .. X 7' ,X X of ll 1 1 .5 fa