Greensburg High School - Brown and White Yearbook (Greensburg, PA)

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1 1- l I 7 . . . j WITH a desire to spend the weekend in Havana, but without the neces- FX Q sary cash, the next best thing is to take Spanish from Miss Barron. TA All the proper Latin background is provided and it's even rumored that free conga lessons are included in the course, This rumor hasn't been verified, but its at least certain that you're taught the language so that if you're south of the border you can sigh, I-Trenesi ! with the proper accent. The current popularity of Latin American rhythms, styles, and people makes Spanish the style in languages, and its reintroduction into the school has proved to be a popular step. French, German, and Latin students study the culture and traditions of France and Germany and ancient Rome and are surprised at the close connection between these languages and our own. Whether interested in things animal, vegetable, or mineral, the scientific-minded student is taken care of by C-.H.S.'s science department. Potential chemists may get their fill of test tubes and formulas, while physicists ponder over positrons, electrons, and neutrons, and biology students explore plant and animal life with eager zest. The mysteries of mathematics are explored by budding mathematicians, armed with slide rule and compass. Brows wrinkle over the intricacies of plane and solid geometry, algebra, and trigonometry. Here students learn to think clearly and logically, they must, to understand the maze of x's, y's, and z's. One department of our school aims to educate for business. Here, future salesmen learn how to sell an icebox to an Eskimo and red flannels to a Saharan. Typing is taught the hard way, with the hunt and peck system absolutely tabooed. It's tough, but it works. Those learning shorthand find that a surprising number of ideas can be expressed in a short space. And figures that once jumped all over the ledger are made to sit up and say uncle in bookkeeping classes. Yes, the little red schoolhouse is gone and a big white schoolhouse has come to take its place. The varied subjects of the modern high school may cause a little more work than in days of yore, but when the dances, assemblies, and other activities of the modern school are considered, there are probably not many of us who want to return to the dreary routine of the three R's. I9

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x I 1- el A ,lg wE'RE seniors! Only a few months ago, we were thrilling to the fact 3 that we were now on the top rung of the educational ladder so far as rs, l . . . . , xg i ,4 high school goes. We were bubbling over with excitement, for we ex- L'-' pected this year to be one of the most momentous in our short lives. This was to be our fourth year of jolly good comradeship fwe knew everybody - and everythingl and at the end of this ponderous year, we were to emerge ccmpletely, miraculously, changed people. People who could handle any situation and comc out on top! . . . Such were our thoughts. Our four years together have been happy ones--perhaps filled with more jest and youthful jollity than we shall experience again. As freshies we wandered aimlessly through the corridors, hopefully and hopelessly searching for Room 216 on the first fioor. Then our sophomore year rolled around. We were no longer to be shunned by the haughty upperclassmen as stupid freshmen who knew nothing but didn't know it. We really asserted ourselves as juniors, for our pep rally went quite smoothly- until the motion-picture projector gave us a surprise blackout . The Soiree we sponsored was one of the finest ever, and it was there that we lived in a fairyland of unreality. Of course, we had our ups and downs as any class will. We went through the experiences of oral reports and semester exams, came out fairly well-and promptly forgot the ordeals. We yelled louder and jumped higher at football and basketball games than any of our fellow-classes. Our purse-strings wore out from too constant use. Yes, these were our high-school days. Tomorrow? Tomorrow we go forth to face the uncertainty of a future in a changing world. The gate which leads into the realms of the vast, unexplored future is open to us. Once we pass through it, we can go no farther as a body, but each individual must fill his own tiny place in the great pattern of tomorrow's world. Always he will remember an alma mater which has helped mold and shape him into the person he is to be. Zl