Northwest Classen High School - Round Table Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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Foreword What are we doing to prepare ourselves for the year 2,000 A.D.? Our l957-58 Round Table is not only a record of the events of this year, but aspires to give a graphic presentation of our preparation for the coming years. With only 42 years remaining in the 20th century we must concern ourselves with what will be of vital importance, when the next cen- tury arrives. When in retrospect we consider what was vital to men 42 years ago the list is limited. At that time he who speculated on a trip to the moon was regarded as definitely balmy . Today men accept even the wildest notion of brain storming as highly probable. We are in hot pursuit of eerie ideas. To pro- duce scientists, physicists, doctors, to cope with the future is our passion in '57-'58 as the first outer- space rockets reach for the moon. America, we are told, can not and will not progress unless we en- deavor to fortify ourselves with new ideas and skills. The basis of these ideas and skills is acquired at Northwest Classen. In our classrooms, in our extra curricular activities, and in our daily school life we are constantly building toward new and better con- ception of life. lt is up to mankind to exert all pos- sible effort to enrich the culture which we inherited from our forefathers, lt is the result of our effort which will determine whether the next generation will be leaders in world peace or followers in chaos. Our goal should be a strong mind in a strong body. No goal is unobtainable if everyone contributes his utmost. Northwest is known as a school of many talents. As you read the '58 Round Table you will notice that many clubs and organizations are created with a thought to the future. Today's participants' will be tomorrow's leaders. This is a time of decision. Will we be prepared for the society that will con- front us 42 years from now? fr li tw 0LQll,'g,i.iWl W with ll. ' f claw .,... i

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if I K S I I 5 I3 4-:IV 'ii F f. ff . 1 .. ' .wo W. .K . I ei.. .. THE FIRST INTER ATIONA i IN INSCRIBING OUR BOOK TO SCIENCE, we wish to appropriately recognize past achievements. It took no glittering satellite to establish respect for science among Northwest Classen's popula- tion. The importance of science in today's world has always been understood here and adequately stressed. Accordingly there was no turmoil of re- evaluating and we advanced full strength at our normal pace. Science for science sake is not the goal our science teachers seek. They see science as a means of enhancing and nurturing individual strengths. Today's school must equip for the challenges of an inconceivable future, Scientific approaches will better qualify us for our place of leadership in the world of tomorrow. IN THIS FIRST INTERNATIONAL GEO- PHYSICAL YEAR, we can no longer intone, Go west! Earth's frontier has a new location. The restless ones must now journey into outer space,-- not merely explore new areas on a known world as we did in 1492. Yes, it is a new age. But beset by the same old conflicts,-ambitions, wealth, poverty, war, justice, equality. Humanity's social progress maintains its snail's pace. Unchanged,- except for its expanded manifestations of rest- lessness. Man must now push out the wall of his Universe. WE LIVE IN A WORLD IN WHICH SPEED of change is greater than at any other period in history. Most of our problems arise primarily from this fact-the speed of change. That is the root of trouble in the world between science and re- Iigion. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS THE BASIS OF material things we have today, and it will be the basis of the things we hope to enjoy tomorrow. Research is the means we will use to find the things we want. Research is stressed in any kind of class. It is creative and constructive. Research gives America economic strength that is essential to our national security. As such, it is a bulwark of peace. Our whole pattern of life-the homes we live in, the cars, the planes, are products of research. The world of research can never be emptied. BUSINESS IS THE BACKGROUND OF ALL RESEARCH. Business brings money, encourage- ment, advice, and the ability to make available to the public the things that researchers develop. They do not put a strait jacket on the scientist's mind. Science is a means of achievement, but is not an end in itself. Its triumphs will be empty victories unless they help to make better people who live fuller, more satisfying and nobler lives. THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF TODAY HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY of making or breaking the world. Their accomplishments or failures will change life. Those of us, who create, produce, and dis- tribute the world's goods have a responsibility to do all in our power to see that they are put to good use. . ,T ' eaiieaeaeism. f. rr .. .write ere. fr. N i. if ef ii' f it fr rf y i nv ggiulx 1' rr M ,Q i W , Q Q' i , . ik in .- g , ,W 'ii rf wfv Q 99 '?'? 1w v - A . .. Se. ' Roger Allen derives an expression known as the Sec- ond Complete Elliptic lntegral. It stems from the rectification of the ellipse tfinding its circumferencei and is an invaluable tool in higher mathematics. ln- deed, it cannot be evaluated in terms of the elee mentary operations of Algebra or Trigonometry. Roger has used the expression in finding the period of a satellite orbit.