Troutman High School - Hi Way Yearbook (Troutman, NC)

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PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS ONE ...,... .......... T itle Two ....... .,........ P resentation of Tbeme THREE ...,... .......... B eginning of Transportation FOUR .......... .......... T able of Contents and Scloool Building FIVE ......., .......... D edication Sm .......... ........,. F aculty NINE ......... .....,.... S enior Officers, Mascots, and History TEN ........ .......... S eniors SIXTEEN ........ .......... I nformals SEVENTEEN .......... ........,. S enior Statistics NINETEEN ........ .......... P roplaecy TWENTY ........... .......... L ast Will and Testament TWENTY-ONE ........ .......... S enior Superlatives TWENTY-Two .......s .......... T he Statistician's Report TWENTY-FOUR ....... ......... . Senior Class Poem and Song TWENTY-FIVE ......... ...... . .Lower Classmen THIRTY-FOUR ......... .,....... I nformals THIRTY-FIVE ....... .......... A ctioities FORTY-FIVE .......... .......... T bank You FORTY-Six ......,. .......... A dvertisements and jokes

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Ships Picture Columbus' flagship beside a modern ocean liner of today. The contrast would be unbelievable. Columbus' ship would stand as a small house to a large building. The nineteenth century ocean liner could be put into the main foyer and dining room of today's gigantic vessel, with plenty of room to spare. The proud ocean liner of today, with its equipment of a luxurious hotel, is the end of a chain that may be traced, link by link, to the sailing vessel depending on wind, such as bore Columbus to America: to the long ship of the Phoenicians with its three banks of oarsg to the birch-bark canoe of the Indiang to the raft of floating logs, and finally, to the hollowed out tree or dug-out, used by men of the Stone Age. It is a long and romantic story and it may be told only in its broad outline. Then, inventions greatly increased the building of bigger and better ships. Aided only by sun, stars and crude maps, men of long ago braved the hardships, the hunger, and the fearg to discover new lands, open new trade routesg this was their dream. Later, compasses, better cartographers, enabled sailors to know more about what they were doing and where they were going. ' Ships driven by steam, in point of time, were the flrst among power propelled vessels. They were small at flrst and then in an effort to attain the standards set, they have been increased, enormously, both the size of the ships and the power of their engines. The finest Trans-Atlantic liners of today--the ocean greyhounds, as they are called-carry, besides cargo and crew, a floating population as numerous as that of a small town. They are able to circle the globe without refueling or running short on supplies. Later wood gave place to iron, and then flnally, iron gave way to steel. This was the start of the modernization of ships. The promotion of ships' construction in the United States is under the direction of the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The steam turbine engine, by which most large ships are driven, was envolved by Parsons of England. It maintains a speed of thousands of revolutions a minute, driving the twin or triple screws at racing speed. The screw was first used on ocean vessels toward the middle of the nineteenth century and has now displaced the old paddle wheel. Heavy oil engines of the diesel type are now being used for the propulsion of vessels. A new and different motor is being made. It is a closed gas turbine. This motor is highly efficient and will compete with other marine motors. It will burn a heavy grade of fuel oil. At the start of the twentieth century there has been a rapid development of the motor ship. Motor ships are equipped with the diesel engines, an oil-burning internal-combustion device similar in structure to the gasoline engine. Later on in the twentieth century, Anton Flettner developed a new type of ship which is called the rotor ship. It replaces sails with two rotating towers, about fifty feet in height and ten feet in diameter, which are driven by electric motors. Concrete ships were introduced in nineteen hundred and sixteen, Norwegian ship builders having the credit for the invention. Now thirty-nine per cent of the ships are built on shipway. The other sixty-one per cent is by prefabrication. There are six important steps in the building of a ship. These are: the shipway is builtg keel of the ship is laid: the hull is builtg main deck and superstructure is added: ship is launched and then towed to outfltting pier and completed. Ships have many uses today. A country needs a good navy to defend her against invaders, to carry freight and passengers, for lighthouse beacons, for repairing trans- oceanic cable that lies under the Atlantic, for ishing and for many other profitable industries.

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Dedication For your acceptance of us as equals For your deep understanding of our views For your kindness and undying generosity We the Senior Class of 1948 dedicate the XII Voltune of The Hi-Way to A kind friend as Well as a splendid teacher - Mlss CORA MARTIN I Wo w V