Foreword The Class of 1959 has seen so many innovations during our high school career that it would be a simple matter to choose an appropriate theme for our yearbook from the occurrences of the past. But we’ prefer tolook to the future and-so.have chosen for our theme the VIII Olympic Winter Games tobe held at Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California, in 1960. Our-decision.is based on the fact that the Olympic Games are a part of the present, sin¢e-preparations have.already begumand have been going on for approximately three years (a period parallel to’our three-year préparation for gradua- tion), and on the further fact that the outcome of the preparations is still in the future, as the outcome of our graduation is still in the future. The VIII Games include competitions in Ice Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Alpine and Nordie Skiing, and demonstrations of Dogsled Racing and Curling. Each illustration in the book shows an event in the Olympics and .characterizes a phase of high school life. Accompanying each illustration i§ a photograph taken by Shield photographers at.the actual site of the Olympic Winter Games. Curling, the sport shown on the Administration division page, is the opening”exhibi- tion in the Winter competitions» In the same way that Curlng serves to introduce the Olympics our administration serves to introduce us fo education in high school and to prepare us for the future. The government division page illustrates a man skiing. It suggests to us a certain independence and leadership which is characteristic of those who make up our student government, A skating pair is reminiscent-ofthe friendships and fun of Senior year, so we chose them to open the Senior séction. Bobsledding suggests good times and good friends in the same way and serves.to open the Class section. Ice Hockey, a very lively'sport, seems appropriate to open the section given over to a very brisk part of RUHS life, Activities. The Organizations section is introduced by a Dogsled Racing exhibition. All the members of the team pull together, which is something we learn to do through our participation in group projects of the many organizations within the school. A man skiing in the: Men's Slalom illustrates the com- petition of athletics and introduces that section. The obvious choice for the Advertise- ments division page is a girlskating; nothing seems to attract attention more effectively than a pretty girl. Aside from the allegorical tie-ups we have with the Olympic Winter Games, Rich- mond has, in faculty member Miss Margaret Jesseph, a Very real identification with the Games. Miss Jesseph served on the First Aid Team at the trials held in February, 1959, and will serve on the same group at the actual events in February, 1960. All of us will share in the honor bestowed by the International Olympic Committee in selecting California as the site of the 1960 competitions, and a good many of us may be CALLING OLYMPIC 1-9-6-0, which is the telephone number of the headquarters in Squaw Valley, as well as the theme forithis, our 1959 Shield.
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