Baker High School - Buff Yearbook (Baker, LA)

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Doors come in various sizes and styles. Some are elaborate and ornate like Ghiberti's carved doors in Florence; some are simple and straight forward like the Quaker styles from Pennsylvania. But they all lead somewhere. Perhaps the doors leading to the most significant “somewhere of all are the doors o f any high school in our land. For the People of Baker, we are the doors of Baker High. Entrance doors of Baker High School are important — through them we enter the auditorium. the lab. the shop, the cafeteria, and — most important — the classroom. In these places we see. we hear, we apprehend, we understand. The “Exit door — graduation — is perhaps even more important. The concepts built up in four years at Baker High are, open upon the arrival of the moment of graduation, handed to each graduate symbolically in the rolled diploma tied with red and black ribbon. And the closing of this “Exit ” door has a meaning: the students of BHS are equipped to open other doors. Anywhere. Any time. 1 2 Opening

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Knowledge Evolves From Things ‘7 will make a list... of lovely things to hold in memory'. ” Baker High School is more than a cluster of buildings on a given plot: it is a typewriter in N-9, a sewing machine in C-2, a novel in the library, a volleyball in the gym, the driver's education car. The professional football, baseball, and track stars of tomorrow spend hours upon hours building themselves up: prospective brides learn the fine art of cake baking through many hours over the mixing bowl; upcoming business executives learn the tricks of their trade at the typewriter, the adding machine, the shorthand pad, the file cabinet; the future scientist is intrigued by potassium reactions and pendulums. Knowledge is gained through experience — experience with typewriters, sewing machines, books, balances, footballs, baseballs and bats, French horns and slide rules. Knowledge is the final product of direct contact with things. THINGS at Baker High School are important. 14 Opening