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

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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

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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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v 1 . if 'A' ' 1 - li, 'Gui' W9- GRACE E, EATON ELMER P. HARDELL VIRGINIA MCCORKLE MARY Mcl.AUGHLlN ELIZABETH MAYFIELD Shorthand Mechanical Drawing Clerk Office Machines Bookkeeping Typing Typing Business Skills P .- f: 1: P 2 1 -: es if . '1 QW 5' Q :Ivy ., . .. HUNANK gndsi-wc' -I W N,,, .. rv ln a maze of Compasses and tee-squares these boys are drawing near their future. To ride or not to ride, that is the question. Jack Wolper has some misgivings: he wonders whether school tickets ore worth the price. l6 -Q. At Roosevelt one-half of all enrolled students take some form of course that prepares directly for a vocationg one-fifth of the total area of the school is devoted to the clickety-clack of typewriters and oftice machinesg many girls practice using their skills by aiding teachers with clerical work, hundreds of boys spend informal hours behind a drawing board in mechanical drawing. These students know that what they are taking is important and very useful. The courses offer immediate practical use. To one it may mean economic independenceg to another it may be the opportunity to finance a college educationg to the third it may mean something as simple as being able to buy that mouton coat so long desired. The toilsome hours now may be difficult and trying, but when a car, or a good-paying iob, or a college degree rewards the student's labors, then these courses will be truly appreciated.