Trona High School - Telescope Yearbook (Trona, CA)

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7 .. ' - . W 'nv J ,--1 9? drowsy - .. . T 1' -31:32----f . ,.- l--af. 1 'll- x l Drawing blueprints is a rough job. Vernon Lewis looks to Mr. Georgeou, shop and geology instructor, for a few pointers. Gilbert Gonzalez, John Vess, Al Gonzalez fhalf- hiddenj, Manuel Picon, and Jim Dillon industriously draw or just think. These boys are part of the advanced mechanical drawing class who came up with some very complicated projects. 4 ,44 Wed 144 9th and 10th graders sweated out the mechanics of English grammar, preparing themselves for these joys. To satisfy their eager curiosity, many students experimented with chemicals and tubes or by cutting up frogs and worms during the more advanced sciences. The strain of trigonometry and the mys- teries of solid geometry were tasty fare for the potential engineers. Four years of Spanish are offered, but only two years are required for college. The eager-beavers who took the advanced Isn't Jimmy Hambright a fierce-looking ghost! Ted Murrin 1BernardoD, Arrlos Howell flloratiol, and Gary Casey lMarcellusJ spring away in fright during the Lit dramatization of the opening scene of Hamlet. class are sometimes rewarded, such as the eventful trip this year to Mexico where they stayed at the ranch of Ruly Quezada's father. Then students must learn what hap- pened long ago-'way back in history: how our country originated and was developed. And in Civics Mr. Ferman taught how the government is run, about the different departments and houses, and the repre- sentation of the people. For those who couldn't find Washington, D. C. on the map, THS offered a course in geography. What is it? 7th grade natural science students Roy Carter, Jimmy Clarkson, Walter Gebhart, and Van Darnell-rub a glass rod with a piece of rabbit fur. The static electricity worked the ping pong ball

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Xt if 1 .49 Q-0' -Rat . A Ad Adams KI-loratioj and Barbara Hevener f0sricJ look over the corpses of Barbara Garcia fLaertesD and Virginia Hall iliamletb who died of wounds from the poisoned swords. It looks like Lois Pratt CClaudiusD and Shari McKean fGertrudeb drank too much from the wine bottle. mm icademdc Bob Rascoe is fascin- ated by the slide speci- men he is looking at through the microscope in biology. Bobby Jones and George Sherman must be trying to look through the holes in Aside from the social and athletic events in school, students somehow squeezed in some time for studying academic subjects. Besides vocational subjects - industrial arts, homemaking, and business courses- there was a solid core of college prepara- tory courses for those who wanted to con- Bob's head. ' V I tinuc their education. A required subject is English, so, making the best of it, the older students hammcd up their dramatizations of Hamlet or dreamt up Weird subjects for comp. The History must be an entertaining subject to look Showing off their models are Eric Chandler, Don at Larry Burke, who probably just pulled another Samuels, Lynn Bell, Jerrell Glenn, Scot Wallace, fast one. Mr. Ferman doesn't think it so funny. and Chris Petersen. Mr. Merrill grins for the camera Could he be looking at his grade book? while he holds his iron rod in his hand.

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ci. aem . 0595, yyafm ees anasexillots 0 52' me 'these iw is 1 lltstiaveaux' afe 'LY Wg An established custom for re cognition of the senior class eacl year is Senior Hat Day. Las year it was varied with a Hobr Hat Day, so again the senior turned up at school looking as i they'd just finished a pot of mulli gan stew. The class used thei ingenuity to come up with soml really frantic creations. This yea. many of the hats were adornec with trinkets and gadgets acquirec from the raid on Olvera Stree during the ditch day. To go Witl this idea, the girls wore enor mous earrings for the occasion. There seemed to be some ques tion about who wore the pants ii the family when the girls arrivel in slacks and pedal pushers. Bu the administration got everythini back to normal CU. After that littl' episode the enthusiasm droppel way down, particularly since al the boys didn't participate to begii with. Still it was a day to remem ber. Well, here I am! The senior sec- tion preens and displays their ' cool hats during assembly. Won- der who Ruth is making eyes at? X