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

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Girls ' gym classes spend a fun- filled hour playing speedball on the rear campus, both teams striv¬ ing to become the victor. The snow melts, revealing small blades of grass struggling to mature into a carpet of green. Trees and bushes bud merrily while the sun smiles benevolently upon the scene. Eyes stray stealthily to the window, and minds wander to the four corners of the earth. White shorts and sweat shirts dot the tennis courts, as ardent enthusiasts eargerly begin to practice their serves. The stadium is filled with hooded boys circling it rapidly and with others carelessly tossing the heavy discuss back and forth. Once again the crack of a bat can be heard as it collides with a momentarily white base¬ ball. Spring is here. Assemblies begin to be filled with award-giving and senior reminis¬ cing. Tape measures are weilded and measurements for graduation caps and gowns are taken. Spring has arrived, the world is new, and the future seems near. Eyeing the target with ex¬ treme caution. Rockettes pre¬ tend to be Maid Marion in search of Robin Hood’s ene¬ mies.

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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.

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Massive 0rowfh Results from Chaos of Construction Part of the future is embodied in the structure which can be seen emerging as the snow begins to melt. Glinting in the sun ' s rays stands a skeleton of a building, but with every musical ring of a hammer the addition seems to grow. Shouts of construction workers and the whir of machinery echo throughout the school grounds, as beam is placed beside beam, and brick is placed upon brick. The building skeleton takes shape and form. It becomes a part of . . . school. A solitary figure performs the baclt-brealcing task of overturning the dry earth before a skeleton of steel and brick. As bleachers are installed, the floor is laid, and the baskets are hung, the mammoth structure be¬ gins to resemble a gymnasium. Room after room is completed. Boys and girls stroll through newly opened corridors and glance anxiously at the incomplete sections, stepping gingerly over mislaid drills and around shabby sawhorses. A young homemaker gazes dreamily through wide clear windows at the wonderous, sparkling appliances within the new home economics rooms. Athletes peer through tiny peepholes in order to behold the gigantic fieldhouse. Classrooms wait patiently, inviting stu¬ dents into their modem efficiency. A glance out of the window at the progress of what is lovingly termed the new building by teach¬ ers and pupils alike provides more than a senic diver¬ sion. It is a framed perspective look into the near future.