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

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Wc study in the strangest places. Studying calls for concentration. Study ’ n Cram “Everybody talks about, and nobody does anything about it.” Wc were threatened from the first week of school with the cafeteria situation. “Take back your trays” was hammered into us, but to little avail. Student Government Association discussed tne prob- lems and named a committee to make recommendations, but the solution came with the Administration’s decision to accept the S. G. A. recommendation. The verdict: Suspension! and behold, what a clean cafeteria resulted. Mornings in the cafeteria arc for books, not food. 15

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jubilant students pass through the door to freedom at 3:30. Hetty Connelly courageously makes a try at going up the dorvn Stairs in spite of $. C. A. requests. Again this valiant student makes her way through the wrong door while mobs of righteous students stare. Ups and Downs 1960 was marked by false fire alarms, clocks that never worked, and strange fashion fads. Were you part of the desert boot or the tennis shoe set? Everywhere we saw loden or camel outfits and even bulkier, fuzzier sweaters. And shades of the '20's! Raccoon was back! No matter what we may say, we arc by necessity, a study-conscious school. We study everywhere — the li- brary, on vacant hall floors, and in the cafeteria. Cafeteria was the word that spelled chaos in 1959!” 14 The numerous purses on a cafeteria table leave little room for food.

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Mr. Steele, in physics class, explains the use of scales to Kaye Kittle and Judy Warren. Mr. Campitcll explains how to tell the age of a tree to Mary Schubauer, Herb Birch, and Karen Moomey. Linda Fuller shows off the new collection of paper-back books in the school store. Meditating upon tests, we see they have existed from the begin- ning of schooling. We usually don't have time to meditate! 16