Roosevelt High School - Rough Rider Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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I I Da Mrs. Hamilton's loan approval board listen with disdain to student applicants' tales of woe. And over here we have the bolt that holds the car together , Doc Brown warns his naive students. They are Fay Silva, James Pryor, and Richard Tingley. lt is in the history and government classes, the social studies, where the typical classroom scene occurs. The bell rings, slowly the seats fill and the class becomes quiet. The teacher calls for order, the homework is passed in. Last minute cramming begins. Pages flip, notes are frantically searched, and everyone tries to stuff hundreds of facts into his head at once. There's a surprise test today! Name, section, and date in the upper right hand corner. First question. Silence and scribbled answers. After the last question, papers are passed up with a general sigh. The homework assignment is given, the bell clangs, and class is dismissed. This is the ordinary routine of the day except, perhaps, when a movie is to be shown, or when a speaker is to be heard. ln the hands of a skillful teacher, history can be as fascinating as a good story, government, as intri- guing as the mechanism of a clock. Law is widely considered dry and uninteresting, but many people find pleasure in studying cases and critical opinions, geography students, likewise, are not iust anyone, but those who are spellbound by a good map. Since these subiects are electives, not many take advantage of them. However, each exists in its separate field as an exciting world of thought. we scrutinize our fellow man, his world lO

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Noses to the grindstone. After weeks of research for terms papers, Miss Dewar's class is trying to decipher hastily scribbled notes. N5 You've got to give it that extra umph! Miss Hawk coaches sceptical Ann Packard and grinning Robert Holtzman in the reading of Macbeth. Lf' ' ,.2fA1f'fL'3 FV . L 1 I I HJ A 0 ,UL Vbtlfv 4f!?j4Z4fM adm' jf. all ,bft I , . fd, 67f ?,,,V ..,, L, . . of Spanish, the noble dignity of Latin, French's liquid delicacy, German's explosive energy create vivid images of their native lands. The thrill of reading or speaking in a strange tongue is new and exciting, even if we experience it only for a moment. The distinctive literature and charac- teristic spirit of each people are open to unre- strained plunder. Our own speech is enriched by leaps and bounds. After Latin grammar, English is a cinch. Think of the troops of words lifted out- right or borrowed stealthily, all these are as gifts. Light is truly thrown into dark and unfamiliar corners. a conhri nfal flair accents our speech GENEVlEVE HAWK JEANETTE G. KERN JOSEPHlNE S. WADE RUTH L. WILSON RUTH O. WOFFORD English English English English Latin English In 'Wt Q-9 Q3-I Wi.

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And there you are! Miss Carmack lends a help- ing hand to third semesters by explaining how the Reader's Guide is used. Lett to right: Morton Hyatt, Miss ' Wilde' ,'.4'A Et Vtl!lFll-s ' wr' U -I M M-Mrk'-A . - - ,,m.sau1:fa:rvwL..w.mw,-. . X w Carmack, Patsy Barclitt, Joan Ellis. 3 N 1 , iw' J ' Sig is .L , 3 . . f is ,- ' 'tl 1. , X .V :L - 1 gf q j t il .4 QL All K' HELEN BLACKBURN Government History ,ff 1 'i ,J DONALD M. BROWN Driver Training rf .14-f LUCILE CARMACK Library Democracy is our heritage Barbara Sigel, RHS's winner of the Voice of Democracy Contest, expresses her ideas on the subiect while runners-up Dan Tobin and Eleanor Holt listen. DOROTHY HAMl LTON Govern ment History Law CHRIS WILSON Sociology History 'GW 'f gy' J