South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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.qi r t.'::. 1 , 0 N ia znafme izesu.1evmvum ff 'Nil . .Y-ill, .2 Y U' ,. ,i Vi. gnu ...IW i i Ihr Smittlg Simi- Eimvs vii '- A . l ,V ii Y illl G. A. Afers in their annual party . The parents swing it at the first annual Parent-Teacher frolic ., The Times does it again Last springs senior dance ...The mural in Miss Dochterman's room that recently received honor in a national magazine The parents sit one out during the parents' party Another view of the front entrance. of those lines of giddy girls who march arm-in-arm in battle formation down the halls and sweep every- thing before them. Then there are: the studious type, who creeps along with his nose in a book fre- quently flattening it fhis nosel against someone or the wall, the strolling talker, who seems always to be carrying on a conversation with two or more per- sons at opposite ends of the hall and, at the same time, bawls out others for not looking where they are going, and finally the type known as Lot,s wife, be- cause, of course, he is always looking back. If our average student has survived the perils of hall walking, he should arrive at his first period class within five minutes. There he gives clear, accurate answers to all questions on the assignment which he has very carefully prepared to recite-maybe. Since classwork is well known to most people, we will permit the rest of the morning of our student to go unobserved, pick him up at noon, watch him eat lunch at home or in the cafeteria, put him back in school for the afternoon, and then pick him up again after school. At this time, he either goes to some club meeting, participates in some school activity, loafs around at school or goes home-or a little of each. After an hour or less time, our average student has reached home and begun to read the newspaper, listen to the radio, or engage in some activity with his pals. Then he eats his evening meal and begins to think it is time to begin to start to get a little studying done perhaps. That does not mean that he dives imme- diately into his books but that he considers and care- fully weighs the question, To study, or not to study. However, in a few minutes, he does start and works diligently for-a few more minutes. Then perhaps he is becoming bored with studying. If there were only some means whereby he could study and be entertained at the same time. The solution to the problem? It is obvious. The radio. Cn goes the radio, and our student solemnly studies the Pythagorean theorem to the accompani- ment of Benny Goodmanis orchestra. Gradually the Pythagorean theorem begins to lose vividness and shape, its straight lines blur and swayg for a moment, the geometric figure seems inexplicably to be dancing in swingtimeg then it fades and is gone. Goodman has won. Cur average student now listens to the radio for a few minutes, but soon, with firm resolution, he turns it off and renews his studying. He is really getting some studying done, he feels, when he begins to be sleepy and glances at the clock. which tells him that he has a good excuse for not continuing his work. Ir has grown lateg it is time to go to bed, and he can do the remainder of his les- sons in his study period the next day. I lo-hum. So off to bed, and another day in the life of a South Side student closes. Looking back not on any particular day but on our four years at South Side is always pleasant, but an especially enlightening and affecting experience is looking through the old Totems of earlier years. As we turn their strange pages, unfamiliar faces stare out at us, scilred declarations on character, education, and life amaze us, quaint art-work and humor amuse us. The many writers' praises, appreciation, humor, sentiment, and ideas, thought to be original by each, run in the same vein however, despite their strange- ness to us. We realize then that a Totem is an ex- pression of a class understandable perhaps by its members but doubtless somewhat odd and fool- ish to other readersg yet this book-as they modestly explain in all year books-will not be altogether use- less if it helps to preserve for us a few backward glances. Wil l lil l D' i I , C - le E

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