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

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Candy Nichols, Kay Durey, Steve Myers, and Dave Daffron are speechless at the arrival of Sally Giberson in Sabrina Fair. ' • The most outstanding feature of any of these events is the fact that students, with a minimum of faculty help, do almost all of the work behind them. Almost every night after school students may be found memorizing lines from a forthcoming play, treading water in the pool, or rehearsing for an assembly. At any rate, it all adds up to a lot of fun and, we think, a great deal of education besides. Wilhelm Merritt von Ewald and B. J. Nicholl get in a little UBEN before the A.F.S. assembly. Dressed in Gay Nineties costumes, Roosevelt Sharks rise out of the depths atop four of Clark Mu 21

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Trumpet virtuoso Raphael Mendez rehearses with the TRHS Concert Band. There are many other special events which fill a year at Roosevelt, however. In the past nine months, for example, TRHS has played host to the world ' s greatest trumpet player, presented two school plays, and countless assemblies, and has held such almost traditional affairs as the Student Council Social Night, the Sharks ' Pageant, and, of course, the Senior Frolics (which are always the best ever ). Senior Frolics rehearsals aren ' t ALL work, as Bruce Nicholl, Jan Warner, and others demonstrate. All-State Student Council President Don Bell helps Beth Muell distribute Social Night tickets in the 7:30 A.M. darkness of a Council meeting. 0

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STUDENT LIFE • Even more than the big events, it is the day-to-day happen- ings which, though interrupted by tests, recitations, and other inconveniences, add so much to our years in high school. In the last few days of their high school life, seniors can look back upon a wealth of experiences and memories: Eating breakfast in a park after presenting Junior themes to Mr. Ethington, decorating the school ' s Christmas tree, Mr. Morrison ' s Kipp Generator exploding, and 200 lines of poetry, to mention jush a few. Through it all we have come, we hope, relatively un- scathed and ready to face the future.