Salem High School - Quaker Yearbook (Salem, OH)

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Benjamin Barrett A long-established custom in SHS has been that of dedicating the yearbook to a teacher. The only limitation on the choice is that 'the dedicatee must have taught in SHS for at least four years. This year we dedicate the Qua- ker to a man who has served Salem High for many more than four years, who has made a good name for us in the community, who has helped our boys to develop the vir- tues of perseverance, self-discip- line, and fair play. The Quaker Annual Staff proud- ly dedicates the 1955 yearbook to Coach Ben Barrett. Coach Barrett Receives '55 Dedication Mr, Barrett, head football coach, snapped in a familiar pose during a tense moment in a game.

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The Board of Education meets to discuss the pro- posed new high school. 5 I 2 E Robed Chorus members raise their voices in song durlng their annual concert. f x i 2 Q S Hungry students crowd 209 .during the noon recess. The south side of SHS appears deserted at 4 p.m. The SHS inajorettes stand at attention, while the band members form an HS and play the alma mater.

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As students advance in the ranks as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, they find their classes full of new adven- tures and interests that make each high school year unique. Freshmen exercise the privilege of elect- ing subjects of their own choice. Many be- come acquainted with mechanical draw- ing, orientation and guidance, algebra, and gym. Some of the bolder ones venture into Latin and for a while find themselves Wound up in a tangle of us, i, o, um,o, and innumerable other declension and conjuga- tion endings. Novice needle-threaders graduate from the freshman sewing classes experts at hemming, fitting and removing zippers put in backwards. Many sophomores become mathemat- ically involved. None too rare is a panicky feeling that comes two minutes before the bell rings when no possible solution can be found in getting angle A to equal angle B. Biology, too, is a popular sophomore sub- ject, although many a lad blushes at first introduction to Henrietta, the inside-out- anatomy lass. Burnt cookies are a thing of the past with cooking class girls who live in a gourmet's paradise, cooking everything sits Z from soup to nuts and causing those mouth- watering odors to pervade the building just before lunch time. Junior girls get a start on secretarial training in typing and shorthand classes. Twentieth Century alchemists daringly combine sodium, chlorine, oxygen, and hy- drogen and come up with salt water. Lines from Thanatopsis become firmly imbedded under the thinking caps of every junior English student, while back seat dri- vers get a chance to take the wheel in dri- ver ed classes. Seniors become conscious of meeting graduation requirements of sixteen and a half credits, including two majors and two minors. One major is automatically taken care of, since English is a three-year re- quired course, while the second is often completed with physics, health, or trig. U. S. history and government, a must subject, completes a necessary minor in social sciences, while a second year of French, German, or Spanish guarantees every would-be linguist a second minor. Now let us take a look at our friends as we .......