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

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The corridors are filled with tinsel and aluminum foil, and the smell of pine as Christmas comes to Rocky. Christmas Slowly Fade as Semester Ends 13

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Halls are filled with Christmas lanterns and a snowman who counts the days until • vacation. Bits of carols float through the halls. Cookies in intricate shapes and bright¬ ly clored with candy and powered sugar are distributed at festive club meetings. Merry Christmas greets you in all the ton¬ gues that are taught at Rocky. Then suddenly Christmas is over. School loses its holiday appearance and prepares itself for the mid-year grind. Mountains of books are carried home and both the mid¬ night oil and the bedroom lamps are burn¬ ed until early morning. Sleepy-eyed stu¬ dents trudge to school, steal a final glance at their notes and plunge into exams. Nails are chewed to the quick in anticipation of the results. And when report cards are finally distributed, relief greets many, and more worries face a few. But, it is a new semester. It ' s the time when juniors undecidedly array themselves with ring after ring in a futile attempt to make their final choice. Surrounded by brightly colored illustrated pamphlets and endless catalogues, seniors ponder over the huge decision of which college to attend. Sophomores read and re-read their lists of subject choices, and then, two minutes be¬ fore registration, choose their curriculum for the coining year. A new semester is a time for preparation.

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Rocky ' s Campus Animated by Signs of Spring Armed with mitts, balls, and bats, eager young men venture out onto the campus as soon as the snow melts and the thermometer begins its slow, but steady rise. I ' :v.