Topeka High School - Sunflower Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Library K' MISS MILLER, Head Librarian, checks tardy books. SHARON HARRINGTON shelves new copies. Books Pave Paths to Knowledge THE CARD CATALOGUE kept Sally Jones busy filing and sorting during fourth hour. TROJANS taking advantage of the quiet atmosphere and shelves of books. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and impressive wing of THS is the library. Its open doors symbolize the Doorways to Learning. The reading rooms are haunted by the ghosts of Shakespeare and Huckleberry Finn, the intrigue of foreign countries, and the ever-growing shadow of the atom. The annual Book Week created many new interests in the subjects the library contains. Proof is the fact that hundreds of new books were added and the circulation doubled. The friendly librarians, the atmosphere of studious inter- est, and the availability of materials show that Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

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English WHEN EVERYBODY TALKS everybody learns. Grouping for book reports proved a popular way to give many students the opportunities they needed for participation. Language Arts Answer Basic Needs K 1- MISS HOPKINS is the city schools' new coordinator of the language arts. DALE FOX gets Thursday after- noon make-up help from Mrs. Fitts. 26 OHNNY TREMAIN, Julius Ceamf, The Tell-Tale Heart, Moby Dick, and a cruise through world literature became the finale to the program of our formal education. Our English Department presented a wide and varied selection of activities of interest to English students. Those who sought means of self-expression found speech training, play production, and public speaking beneficial. Journalism was offered for those interested in the publications field. Spelling, periods, commas, apostrophes, question marks and capitals took up new positions in our lives. Similes, puns, euphemism, metonymy, hyperbole, epithet and onomatopoeia gained new meanings. Many spelling, grammar, and comprehension tests were given during the year in order to record the progress of each student. A number of literary-minded Trojans entered compositions in poetry and essay con- tests, and consequently captured fine awards for their efforts.

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a . .2 M cztbemcztics ki r f' I HERE'S THE MISTAKE! Mr. Snyder shows Larry Long the accurate Way to con- quer the troublesome math equation easily. 4 I , .J ' I - From Digits to Decimals, Numbers 3. QWMS-.4vSf 28 BECOMING WIDELY emphasized in this new age, Mathematics was well covered by courses offered to the figure-and-numbeb minded students this year. There were classes in everything from Business Arithmetic to Trig and College Algebra, .all beating out an accurate and measured rhythm. Rooms in the math wing were always full of strange figures that seemed to have been built from pieces of chalk, string, paper and metal. The Triangle Sisters, The Circle Society, the Rectangle Family, and everybodys friend, Mr. were the most frequent visitors to the classrooms. With volumes, inches, lines, theo- rems, and equations, students attempted to solve problems, compute distances, and register per- centages. Their answers may sometimes have been off-beat, but the desire to do better, and the practice in logical thinking, made it all worthwhile and a challenging assignment. 8 INCHES IN DIAMETER: that's what the book -M calls for-Buzz Colton tries his hand with compass.