Roosevelt High School - Roundup Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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IN Tl-TE YEAR OF . . . . 'Spufnik', Chemise, Rock 'n Roll It was a compact year. '57-58, filled with doubts and inner qualms, an age of high spirits and confusion, of awakenings and concerns, an age of vertical progresses and vertical regressions. We will look back and we will say it was an exciting time in which to live. We will remember in ten or twenty or thirty years all of the things that mad: lives happy and sad, tense and confident. That October day in '57 when the Russians launched their Sputnik, Our own satellite launchings: our Vanguards, our Atlases, our Jupiter C's. The Dodgers in Los Angeles. Ike Eisenhower and his golf game. A handsome man nzmed Rock Hudson. The woman God created, Brigitte Bardot. Nikita Krushchev on the Kremlin throne. The abominations ofiicially called La Chemise, but unotiicially the Sack. Dave Beck: I refuse to answer on the grounds that what I would say might tend to 'incriminate' me. The Ivy-League look. The Republicans and their reces- sion. Qucktall and the flattop. Summit conferences. Big Beat of Rock 'n Roll. Perry Como, Pat Boone, Tommy Sands. The incompa- rable king of the hip swivelers, Elvis. Gyrating teenagers at sock hops. Teenage violence. Teenage scientists. Yes, there will be plenty to remember, and most of the memories will be pleasant ones. But we will best be able to crystallize the age in the lingo of the day: it was real gone, cool, man, cool. AND DEDICATE IT TO . . . . the American Teenager . . . to the 97 per cent that is-the 97 per cent of us who will one day be the good citizens and leaders of tomorrow . . . to the eggheads and athletes, the average and the gifted, the leader and the follower, we wish to dedicate this annual. We wish to dedicate it to the Ameri- can teenagers-to ourselves. The American teenagers-who are we? This question is as ridiculous as querying: Who is the American middle- ager? The American teenager is not a type. The red-blooded American boy and the wholesome young bohbysoxer are not figures to be cast in a mold. As American teenagers we are individuals, with passionate likes and violent dislikes, wants and needs. We are persons totter- ing on a very crucial precipice of life: on one side lying the uninhibitedness of childhood: on the other the responsibilties of adulthood. We are the gifted eggheads and the intelligent normals. We realize that we are both good and bad: but we feel that there is often a tendency to confuse the two. Unfortunately the good name of the majority is often made synonymous with the actions of the infamous 3 per cent. With all the consternation today over education and delinquency, we teenagers have found ourselves cast into the spotlight of critical public opinion. Our haircuts and dances, clothes styles and dating habits, the hooks we read or don't read, our relationships with the opposite sex, and every other aspect of our existence are examined and criticized, condemned, but very seldom commended. In fact, some persons are ready to throw us to the dogs. What are our children coming to? they raise their hands in exasperation. Where are we going? To tomorrow, that's where. To be sure, we are a restless generation, but we are ourselves critical of this world we must live in: and no one need ever fear that it will dissipate in our hands. We are perhaps the most ambitious youth America has yet seen: and we must not be criticized for our ambition. A phoenix has never sprung from a fire which did not exist.

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TABLE QF CGNTENTS FACULTY ...., . . WWII IIIfIII,f,I,I IIIIIIIIIZM I SPOR S ..... . . ACTIVITIES 84 ......... . . ORGANIZATIONS if ADMINISTRATION TEACHERS REGISTRAR NURSES .......I... CUSTO L STAFF CAF IA STAFF JANUARY GRADUATES JUNE GRADUATES AUGUST GRADUATES . . SENIOR ACTIVITIES SENIOR FROLICS 12-B's 11-A's 11-B's 10-A's ,..... 10-B's JUNIOR HIGH JUNIOR HIGH ACTIVITIES FOOTBALL BASKETBALL SWIMMING WRESTLING TRACK .......... CROSS COUNTRY BASEBALL TENNIS GOLF STUDENT COUNCIL NEWSPAPER STAFFS PLAYS BAND. ORCHESTRA .... VOCAL MUSIC CLUBS 9 V 1 ,Ah ,R '+..e5x': f - 4. , .yn , Q, gx G , I ., 4 t I I, KJ , A I , I. I si --2 FT , K Q ' X r A ' wk- 'gs I . A :eq -I , -5 . . . X I '