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

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U.N. Trip. Row 1: Lori Shimp, Diane Norris, Lori Utterback. Row 2: Ann Love, Janice Rife, Karen Mitchell. Guthrie Trip. Row I: Craig Canine, Jane Voigts, Leesa Christensen, Lydia Matthews, Jane: Mark. Andi Hirsch, Irving Isaacson, Jim H ansen, Liz Keeker, Heather Stanfield, Ted Johnson Ron 2: Dawn Leanhart, Bob Miller, Dave Miller, Steve Shearer, Diann Jenison, Molly Harrington, Cathy Bidler, Meg Shearer. Row 3: Jack Leachman, John Joseph, Mike Higgins, Joel Kiess, Cindi Abrams, Karen Krause, Peggy Paquette, Joan O ' Harra, Anne Gentry. Row 4: Reg VanWyk, Bill Blakely, Jackie Bergh, Linda Deyo, Julie Freimuth, Mary O ' Harra, Gwen Klingeman, Robin Hicklin, Clark Merkley. Spring tour gives juniors opportunity to tour United Nations Each year, the Greater United Nations of Des Moines sponsors a trip to the United Nations in New York City and Washington, D.C. for junior students during spring vacation. All interested juniors are requested to turn in an application in December and then approximately 150 of the applicants are selected to participate in the eight day tour. Six Roosevelt students were chosen to visit the sights in New York and Washington, D.C. including the White House, Washington Cathedral, Arlington National Cemetery, Library of Congress, Fords Theatre, Mount Vernon, the different monuments found in Washington, D.C, the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, National Archives, a tour of the F.B.I building, the Kennedy Center, and seeing a performance at the Kennedy Center. The group also met with Iowa senators and congressmen for a brief question and answer period before touring and visiting the capitol and the rest of the mall area. Sights in New York included the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center. The group of juniors also saw a broadway play and a production at Radio City Music Hall and attended briefings with foreign delegates at the United Nations. Guthrie Theater hosts 47 students The 10th annual Guthrie Theater trip, sponsored by Mr. R. C. Anderson included 47 Roosevelt students. Each student paid $21 for the trip which covered the cost of the bus fare to Minneapolis and the tickets for two plays. The students left on October 16 and returned back to Des Moines that same night after seeing the plays Enemy of the People by Hennk Ibsen and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The Guthrie trip is held to give students a chance to see famous plays on stage. Guthrie Trip, U.N. Trip 29

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Fall Forum coordinates homecoming activities and keeps open campus privileges for students Student Forum officers and committee chairpers ons: Row 1: Sara Froyd, Janet Mark, Irving Ted Brubaker came to the sock hop Isaacson. Jennifer Vickery, Mike Higgins. Row 2: Ann Hornaday, Tootie Steward, Andi Hirsch, sponsored by Student Forum dressed Jim Hansen. David Kingsley. accordingly. Fall Student Forum was led by. president Mike Higgins with the aid of his officers Irving Isaacson, first vice- president; and Janet Mark, secretary. Activities included an open house in October, a Christmas party for Tiny Tots, and a 50 s dance in the gym. Their biggest project was Homecoming, which consisted of an assembly, halftime entertainment at the game, and the dance itself. Student Forum also took part in the Inner-City Student Council. The function of the Inner-City Council was to coordinate the activities of all the metropolitan high schools. Each of the high schools sent five representatives to the meetings once a month. Melinda Haag served as the president of Inner-City Council as well as a Roosevelt representative. The other representatives were seniors Lisa Milligan and Pam Dickinson, juniors Jon Jones and Jennifer Vickery and sophomore Laurna Hansen. Other projects this year included dances, fund drives and a petition to the school board to change the present grading system from numerals to letters. The Forum was also responsible for helping to keep the open campus policy at Roosevelt. i i truti ■■ssbbbsb: Intercity Student Council members. From left: Jon Jones, Laurna Hansen, Lisa Milligan, Pam Dickinson, Melinda Haag, Jennifer Vickery. 28 Fall Student Forum, Intercity

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Foreign students explore new experiences Foreign students from England to Iran traveled across the world to Des Moines to attend Roosevelt. Senior Pearl Pedergnana came from Kantons Schule Winterthur, Switzerland. She noted that high schools in Switzerland are much more specialized and more like our colleges. Angela Joan Smith is from Camberly , England. In England, she would have started college. Angela said that London schools are more formal than they are here. Knowing only a little English made classes more difficult for Claudia Araujo, but she liked the challenge. Claudia is originally from Right: Senior Pearl Pedergnana receives static electricity, a hair-raising experience, from the vande graaff generator in physics class. Below: A hungry Hossein Alavi eats lunc h in the c afeteria. Peruambuco-Recile, Brazil. She began attending Roosevelt during the second semester. Marie Barillas, the 17-year-old student from Guatemala, said that what she liked best about Des Moines was that there is much less violence here than in her hometown. Marie will return to Guatemala at the end of March, but wishes to return to the United States again. The plans of Hossein Alavi, sophomore, are to be graduated from high school and go to college in the United States. After that he will return to his family in Iran. Claudio Araujo, Maria Barillas, Hossein Alavi, Angela Smith, and Pearl Pedergnana go for ■ bike ride outside the school. 30 Foreign Students