Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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Culture and Study Give Lessons of How to Live Amo, amas, amat, 1 love, )ou love, he loves. Such words can be heard echoing in the halls around ' inified Bull ' s room as many of GJHS ' s students undertake the task of learn- ing a Latin vocabulary. However, after the first few weeks of study have given the students a working knowledge of Latin, classes take up famous Roman stories, learn ancient customs, and stud) ' a long gone civilization that still holds influence on our lives today. A jabbering of French issues forth from Esther Conway ' s class. Her ambitious students present skits, plays, and other entertaming perform- ances throughout the year to put their French to practice. On the more serious side of the study, the class make translations of French literary works into English. Besides having a great deal of fun in the class itself, Spanish students of Miss Conway and Ann Cornelison learn mteresting facts about the history and customs which originate in Spanish-speaking covmtries. All this study helps students to build understandmg of our near southern neighbors at the same time as they learn to read and speak the language. Anil t ' orneUson e.rplains a conjugation to a SiJinnsli sliident. GJHS students carry on rescaich nork in the hifih school lihrartr Hoir do yoii irork this prohlemf Page 2 5

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Ned iraitu for the traftii- Uijlil.s tii ihaiige. Si)ik that one! Students Train for Safe Driving, Healthful Living A grating of gears, a gunning of the motor, and another student is off on the road that for him will lead to driving correctly, courteously, and safely. The school ' s co-curricu- lar course for training drivers has, in the two years it has been offered to students of Grand Junction High School, increased the number of Colorado ' s motorists by 204, 72 of which were added this year. In preparing to become drivers, students learn that all-important business of chang- ing a tire along with other important basic car mechanics. To top off the course with a last bit of fun and a first bit of night-driving, the new drivers take a night trip. Heels can be seen flying high over their owners ' heads as the gym classes take up the sport of tumbling. Together with basketball, volleyball, and other activities, tumbling has been popular with both the freshmen boys and girls in the high school physical education course. However, as spring approaches, all the pep and enthusiasm of the classes is carried to the baseball diamonds found on the Washing- ton Park athletic field. Here students shout their side line advice to team-mates and urge them on to do their best. When the classes are over, shrieks and giggles emanate from the shower rooms, proclaiming to anyone passing by that class is over for the day and that the shower is mighty cold. Gi t those elhoips up there. says Knoxie. Page 24

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i 1 d ' Ours to Love ' My country loves the lovers of her land: ... The earthy men are those Who have America to love and keep: Her mountaintops, her daring clouds that scud Above the dappled carpets that we reap ; Her rain, her snow, her forest-fire, her flood. Her dusty winds, her tidal hurricanes. Her desert buttes, her lakes blue-eyed and deep; Her foaming rocks and shores, her silver veins. — Russell W. Davenport Page 26