Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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The Kyote Portrays Billings The Parmly Billings Library, the second largest library in Montana, ambitious person, why not read all the books in the library? The librarians serves students from colleges, high schools, and junior high schools, as have estimated that it would take 239 years, 3 months and 14 days if well as adults living in Billings and the surrounding area. If you are on you read one book a day. This is the city. We notice many scenes other than the ones pic- tured on these pages bits of paper scuttling across sidewalks, lum- bering buses roaring around corners and screeching protestingly at stop- lights. In fall, young boys in football uniforms flash by on well-worn bikes from Little Guy scrimmage. Black branches, veining clouds of orange and red leaves, arch over Poiy Drive. In winter, cars creep cautiously up the icy Grand Avenue Hill. Red-nosed children, padded in iayers of wool, fly down the hills of Pioneer Park. The weather tower above the Midland Bank flashes white against a gloomy sky. In spring, the sun coats the ground with mud, frosts the trees with a film of green, and fills the gutters with slush. Daffodils bloom in store windows. Men with trucks clog the streets as they fill chuck holes and repaint stripes. In summer, hopscotch patterns cover sidewalks and driveways. Little girls carry jump ropes and boys ' pockets bulge with marbles. The city looks, from the rims, like a green froth of tree-tops with glimpses of roofs or white walls peeping through. Time passes in the city; houses and swimming pools replace grass- hopper and weed-filled empty lots. Mailmen putt from house to house in miniature trucks with handlebars instead of steering wheels. The city itself creeps up the rims, advances farther into the farmlands on the west, and moves a little closer to the Yellowstone River. This pattern of changing scenes and new developments is a part of the life of the city and of our lives.

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BHS in 1948 97 t n many ways the school in 1948 differed little from the - ; school today. Physically, of course, the school has changed. The annex has been built; trees and shrubs have grown; families . (.L C t g£-?tJ j£ .- !Z- ?Z4P have built houses closer to the school; murals cover part of the school walls; desks display newer, smoother surfaces; a few more scuff marks and dents scar the floors; indentations in the stairs are worn deeper. There are different organizations and activ- £ S s i ' - V, £6 S 2 ities, more subjects, new teachers. • Basically, however, the school remains unchanged. The fundamental function of the school endures that of educa- tion. Today ' s students resemble the students of 1948: some like to study, some are preoccupied with sports, some are con- cerned only with clothes or dates. School language clubs, service clubs, and music and dramatics departments are as active now as in 1948. Through the Broncs and intramurals, the school still plays football and basketball, still participates n track, still carries on its wrestling program. Physical hanges brought about by the passage of time have not af- fected the heart of the school. — C - Cc0t X ?c tug-