John Burroughs High School - Akela Yearbook (Burbank, CA)

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We honor the first International Geophysical Year and dedicate our yearbook to the scientists who study the physical nature of man's terrestrial environment. PHE FIRST INTERNATIGNAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR W-Nxt-xg - Earth is, of course, the primary study of the IGY. Brightened and EX XNNX Mai 'AN-9'-3' warmed bythe dazzling sun, insulated and temperated by circulating ggi xkbuiig-MS winds-this is how we know our Earth. But her interiors, her Q4-11'-Tcd , LOLRM - YYWW XJR? ocean floors, and her glacial coverage-these are relatively un- 0- Mlikhpf - all out explored. These are to be fathomed by geologists, geochemists, and LM D 16' Ill stag. Lf geophysicists in their glory year Uune 30, 1957-December 31, 1958.1 MQ wa Q-M , QI, Modern instruments will measure gravity strengths. Others will soar tw u '-'- QAI9so. QJNS. up and beyond atmosphere to photograph as much as 600,000 miles QQ? Xksw JNL'-W-9 sl. of Earth-stretch at a single exposure. Earth, in her present form, S wi QQ will be contoured for the making of new maps. IGY is truly inter- MQW 'Je lm 'iwiw-.national. 64 countries are cooperating, setting up pole-to-pole station his-AA. WML chains. They will synchronize their findings of the constituent make- up of the stratosphere and ionosphere, of the vast movements of I 9 S 8 i- ocean waters, and of studies of our own winds circulated by powerful solar energy. When their compulations have been finally made, and new maps charted, we shall know better where we relate to past milleniums. We shall better ascertain our true orbit as we spin in our galaxy, around an atomic-generating sun. ' So is mankind continually progressing toward universal outlooks and accomplishments for the profit 'of future generations.

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, ft-,I . . Q - . ' f f AA, f - V 'I X, yy. 1 -, 3,-' 7,47 ft' frifj ,fri ' 4 if J -F1 .i ff, , 'I 3 - fy ,ff ,, .f X Dr. Glenn T, Seaborg is one of a group of four scientists who began to investigate the chemical separation of plutonium at the University of California in 19110. He won the Nobel Prize for his work in the field of Radiation. He sums up the im- portance of the IGY in the following statement: The International Geophysical Year- perhaps the great- est cooperative scientific enterprise ever undertaken by man-should prove fruitful not only in terms of ad- vancement of knowledge, but in terms of advancement of human understanding as a result of the sharing of common ideas and interests across national and ideolog- ical boundaries. THE FIRST IN T EHNA T I ONAL CEOPHYSICZIL YE-aft? lt if Thank you, Dr. Seaborg, for your contri- butions to human enlightenment and for taking the time to write this inspiring message for our yearbook.