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

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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

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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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2I2o! That's the boiling point of water! Mrs. Nowlan and Sandra Geagley stare at the thermometer in amazement. Barbara Coates iust sits there stunned. Upward and onward is Roosevelfs motto as proven . by Sandra Edwards and Joyce Farrah. ,fc fl The gym class-the hour which most pupils look forward to-is greatly welcome after the stitT posture maintained in the classroom throughout the school day. Most young people today are interested in sports, and the values of good sportsmanship gained through experience in teamwork far outlive the gym class. It must be pointed out that competitive games and calisthenics are not the only phases of physical edu- cation. Hygiene, necessary in broadening physical knowledge, makes its appearance in an array of classes. Some teach cleanliness, some, nutrition, and some, care of others. Besides the games and the competitions there are many little things that add color to the gym class. Everyone remembers dressing at breakneck speed to be on time for the next class, or the boys standing around to laugh at the girls trying their best to play basketball. Even more vivid are the contortions arising from the average exercise, and the horrible clutching pain of sore stomach muscles afterward. Though gym may be remembered by some as only a place for fun, others realize that this is the only time of the school day that pupils turn once again into boys and girls, playing as children unmindful of their outside cares. .IANE S. BERNOT VIRGINIA CULLEN LUCIE HAID Physical Education Physical Education Physical Education JN ff? J.. 'E' ARBUTUS R. SAUNDERS Physical Education 'ki