Golden Valley High School - Viking Yearbook (Golden Valley, MN)

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A second is all it takes to losp a game, to crack a smile, to sing a note, to learn a new word. or. to put the last T or F on a test. This book contains many of those seconds, seconds which highlight the activities and gaiety, the troubles and accomplishments of three hundred seventy-five American high school students during a year which opened a new decade, seated another president, watched Castro’s clamor for power, and raucously advanced the Space Age. It was a year which saw the earth become even smaller because of the increasing use of commercial jet airliners. They made it possible to fly from New York to Los Angeles in less time than it took a Buf-ferin to enter the bloodstream. It was a year which saw the earth become lighter as tons of steel were hurled into infinite space in the form of satellites and missiles. It was a year that pointed out to the earth's people that either they live with faith and trust in each other, or they would t live at all. And it was a year that saw fifty-five seniors graduated from a yo.ung bo+ growing high school in the valley. When the satellite Sputnik was successfully launched by the Russians, a new type of international game began: a game that lost a famed diplomatic kibitzer named Dulles, a game in which the United States foresaw its most prosperous year in history though crippled by a I 16-day steel strike, a game which saw the United States and Russia begin a cultural exchange program that dented the Iron Curtain, a game that heard statesmen from many countries cry for peace, a game that saw Russia take pictures of the dark side of the moon simultaneously making faces in the Pentagon turn white, a game that had ferocity, tension, excitement, and color, a game that only brilliant minds could play and win. valley high These were the issues the fifty-five read about, talked about, learned about. Valley High had become a training center,” a preliminary workshop for this game in which some day these Valleyites would be the principal players. Every time a book was read, an experiment conquered, an algebraic equation solved, or a sentence translated, these students were learning the game. But the training wasn't entirely reading, conquering, solving, and translating. It also involved a lighter side of life: acting in a class play, listening to the latest jazz release, savoring a pizza, or displaying the newest fad. Artistry, competition, fashion, and leisure, as well as the conquering and solving experiments of learning, are the expressions highlighted in this book. Therefore, as the world expressed itself in many ways, sometimes with the loud thunderous roar of an ICBM, sometimes with the quiet hand that wrote Dulles' obituary, so did Golden Valley High School express itself in many ways, sometimes with a loud, colorful voice and sometimes with a quiet pen. 4

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expressions of Enrollment numbered 375 individuals, each intent on reaching some goal, each with an opportunity to express himself, whether in the chemistry lab, on the basketball court, or behind the rostrum. Every student had an opportunity to make use of the 4300 volumes in the school library, to belong to many of the extracurricular organizations, or to benefit from the services of a full-time guidance counsellor, offered for the first time this year. 1959 saw establishment of the first journalism, French I, Spanish III, and German III courses. All classes were small, enabling teachers to devote time to the needs of the individual. Techniques made use of lectures, visual aids, magazines, records, maps, and opaque projectors. Tape recordings of native speakers were used in language courses, and practice on machines of future voca- tions was offered in business classes, home economics, and industrial arts. Students saw the why? by diagraming a sentence, decomposing ammonium carbonate, or dissecting a frog. The average senior managed to take part in three extracurricular activities; many students were active in six or more. These activities took place during a short period before 9 a.m. at the beginning of each day. but few students managed to escape through the solid blue doors at 3:22 in the afternoon, as work on such class and club projects often continued into the night. The school work day consisted of six class hours. In the middle of the schedule one half hour was set aside permitting some 340 student gourmets to savor 75 pounds of ground beef. 30 pounds of bread, 15 pounds of carrots, . . . on a typical day. TOM DAHL, YOU’RE ALL WET! Leonard Langley emphatically remarks during a discussion in the 6th hour Modern Problems class. These discussions never fail to produce mixed emotions from this class of seniors. The two sections are taught by Mrs. Anita Stall and Frank Farrell. 6