Salem High School - Quaker Yearbook (Salem, OH)

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3 Q Focus On Classes

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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 .......

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In the fall the seniors started their last school year, confident in their new role of prestige and leadership. Their football queen was crowned, there were football games and pep assemblies. In November they presented The Fighting Littles, struggled with Mac- beth and logarithms, grieved over the Lisbon game, and prettied themselves for the senior pictures. During the Winter and early spring they attended their last class party, rushed frantically to exchange friendship photos, struggled with the themes and punctuation of English IV, chose their Who's Who, rejoiced when seven of their class placed among the highest ten in the county in the general schol- arship test, and pondered over colleges and vocations. June was a magic month filled with happy memories of an enchanted Prom. It was also a sentimental month with sad memories of the last Quaker Assembly, the Recognition Assembly, the singing of the Alma Mater for the last time as a class. At last the Annual was distributed, the Quaker King and Queen were crowned, the class gift was announced, and finally the end-Com- mencement night. But soon came the realization that it wasn't the end at all, but the be- ginning of a new life-a life for which they had been preparing for twelve years. Seniors Assume Prestige and Leaderslup Bob Brantingham, Presidentg Barbara J. Beery, Secretary-treasurel'5 Lowell Fleischer, Vice-president 10