Bethesda Chevy Chase High School - Pine Tree Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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HOW DO WE RATE IN '58 Every ten years there is a turn in the tide of events at B-CC! Our high school undergoes the rigors of a grading period! Because we face an evaluation every six weeks, we students watch this rating of our total efforts with a sympathetic eye. This year, as our accreditors wend their way through classroom, library, record fde, and gymnasium, wielding their evaluating pencils, we find ourselves conducting our own impromptu accreditation. There is less tendency on our part to take our school for granted as we examine every phase of school life—the faculty, the students, our activities in and out of school, our teams, and our school spirit. Always before, we’ve seen the school through eyes dulled by constant association. Now we look at ourselves objectively. What kind of school arc we? How do we rate in ’58? CONTENTS Personnel 7 Sports 89 Clubs 105 Summary 127 Advertising 147 5

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Socially Successful ‘ I studied ’till eleven o’clock last night and I’m beat!” “Oh. What'd you study? History? History! Do we have a test in history? And a student rushes frantically to find a quiet spot where he can review and fix a few vital facts in his memory. There’s always a test, an assignment due, a book report, a problem. We write research papers, make oral reports, study, and take tests. We choose our subjects carefully and can elect Home Arts, Earth Science, or DE as well as the old standbys of leadin’, ritin’, and ’rithmctic.” We gripe and groan; we study, and learn. We grow up. Our teachers work to wipe out our weaknesses, teach us how to study, how to express ourselves in speech and in writing. They encourage us to THINK. Years at B-CC are like the adventure of a small boy who bravely sets out into the cornfield for a romp with Mother Nature and his imagination. The waving corn closes in over his head, blue sky winks between the masses of green. The universe is shut out; he is shut in. into his own private, fascinat- ing world. Winding his way across the field, he stops often— to inspect, to study, or just to lie back and dream a bit. Soon he is on the other side, out into the world, the better for his experience. We, too, are better for our experience in an academic high school, outside the nation's capital on busy East-West Highway in Bethesda, Maryland. 7