Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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To develop perfect archery form by after-school Instruction, Marcia Hance enlists the aid of Mrs. Pierce, who probably recommends lowering that right elbow School Not Just Book Learning The divergent requisitions of Rocky High pass through the receiving room where everything from boxes of canned soup to new desks is delivered. Mr. Austin, trailed by reporter Dennis Sears on a Crier assign¬ ment, checks the arrival of a group of chinchillas for laboratory study. f I ' 8 introduction

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Climb out before sunrise, throw on clothes, gulp down breakfast, speed to school, race across campus, muscle into the line outside the office by 6:20—all to beat the onslaught of students eager to get a ticket to the Regional championship game 1957 Events: Francois, Tourney Tickets, Building Pla ax oum a Uufek aoiUr t (Cunruk- - V T £U$-, atnx. aijudd jt KHo with the rhythmic approach of glee ChristrtmT songs crescehBo ‘Arith the rhythmic approach of glee club members through the halls in traditional observance of the season.

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ing feet, a solid beat, a smile that’s sweet, add up to a successful Friday dancing lesson in the gym. No longer does the word school bring to mind grim thoughts of stick- wielding schoolmasters, hard, back¬ less benches, pot-bellied stoves, and the dry, ponderous books of the old one-room schoolhouse. Today, pleas¬ ant, fully-prepared instructors, comfor¬ table desks, cheery classrooms, and new, progressive courses form the mo¬ dem school. The complex, exacting world of 1957 demands well-trained, competent citi¬ zens; a demand met by the various vocational shops, many secretarial training courses, DO, DE, and home economics classes, which provide prac¬ tical experience. introduction 9