Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Ken Braun ponders E: m lla! Puzzling, isn'1 il? if V These desks weren'1 made-for studying. l know. teacher. ll ,1

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DISCOVERY CENTERS IN THE CLASSROOM The classroom, the main study and work unit of any school, can be a place of satisfaction to some students and a place of gloom to others. It is a place of togetherness and warmth in the winter, of laughter and sweat in the spring, and, perhaps to seniors, a place for a concealed tear or a last- ing look on that final day in June. This class- room, a workshop for maturity, will grind out and sweep aside the indecisive and unimaginative traits of childhood in its students: the product is a man, tempered by discipline and duty and strengthened by work and useful knowledge. I f i l wonder Uhe'll call on me nex1.' Gary Wine gels offlo a clean .YIGFI in arl class. I see you!

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CONCENTRATION AND CONSTERNATION ARE THE MARKS OF A TYPICAL STUDENT We all have memories about someone or some- thing existing in one or all ol' our classrooms. We can remember those crooked paths through the aisles, the dusty and chalk-scribbled blackboards. the grinding of pencil sharpeners, the bright lights in the early morning hours, and the glances and challenging stares ol' the teachers. We recall the quick jokes and fleeting wit, the live-minutes-before-the-belI-rings desire to be outdoors, the unmercil'ul homework assign- ments, and that first jug slip. We call to mind that very hrst personal contribution to the work ol' the class, perhaps an original idea or project that met with success. We remember the friends we met and made there, and ideas discussed and debated there. One of the greatest satisfactions a high school graduate can have is the knowledge that he had made his homeroom or any of his classrooms a place ol' maturing through learning through dis- covering: a high school is an empty shell with- out the presence of persevering and hardworking students. In reality, therefore, Roger Bacon High School loses most of its energy after Juneg it is only the revitalizing ellect in September that L1 L A gmffxj' 1 'QTTHA A Students 0fR00m I4 express disbelief. 41. makes this school come alive again. l Illia Z:::.' C'I1en1is1rj's1uden1s explore the wonders of vacuum disliilalion. l2