White River High School - TKopechuck Yearbook (Buckley, WA)

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PHYSICS Physics is said to be defined as the science of matter and energy, a definition which means in our mind the important matter of .pacifying the over- excited mind of our Physics teacher, for unprepared lessons, late classes, and of making excuses to our fellow-students for not having anything that resem- bles G plus or E on our report cards. As for the energy, it is very difficult to say how much is wasted in this way. Our chemical experiments were put to a sudden end when our High School burned. All that remained of our apparatus was a dilapidated spring and an iron standard. Also we had only thirty minute recitations, but certainly with such brilliant intellects as are found in the Junior and Senior classes, the remaining fifteen minutes was entirely unnecessary. And what a blessing that fifteen minute shortening of recitations has been, to us, will be known and realized by ourselves onlyl One phenomena is still unexplained by Mr. Easton and this is how he dis- covers with the first words we utter, in reply to his first question, whether or not we have studied our lesson and why he fires so mercilessly to the same unfortunates. We have thus far managed to escape recitations before all great person- ages, as inspectors, visiting teachers, etc., but we have been obliged several times to recite before all-wise and highly conceited Sophomores, which is nearly as bad. Though none of us have as yet fallen victims to nervous prostration from over perusal of said Physics we should shrink from counting the many times that we have been rudely awakened from pleasant day-dreams by a whisper of Physics from our nearest neighbor, or of nights made hideous by dreams of ergs, dynes, and foot-pounds sadly intermingled with formulae, polarity, vibra- tions, etc. We do not doubt but that our teacher has often grown discouraged as have we ourselves, but we know that we have tried and we believe that our work would compare at least favorably with other Physics classes, especially when we take into account our entire lack of apparatus, improvised class-rooms and shortened recitations. Our parting wish is that succeeding classes may be well supplied with the things which were impossible for us, so that they may get more value and pleasure than we were able to under other circumstances. sa S4 ENGLISH y The teacher of English has an unusual opportunity for learning the thots, tastes, and experiences of her pupils. For, while red-inking mis-spelled words and supplying punctuation marks, she can readily gather that this young Fresh- man has spent his time in the open, and is a better hand at shooting a gun than wielding a pen: that this quiet little girl, who will scarcely utter a word in class, has an eye for beauty and an exquisite sense of harmony, and that the reason why the one optimistic and appreciative Senior has suddenly changed his

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PROGRAM FIRST PERIOD 9:10-9:40 Freshman- Study. Sophomore-Geometry-Easton. Freshman -Latin-Cox. Sophomore -Study. Freshman-German-Ball. Sophomore- Study. Freshman- English-Gould. Sophomore- English- Cox. Freshman-Physical Geogra Sophomore-Latin--Cox. Sophomore SECOND PERIOD 9:40-10:15 THIRD PERIOD 10:15-10:45 FOURTH PERIOD 10:45-11:15 FIFTH PERIOD 11:15-11:45 phy-Easton. AFTERNOON 1 :00-1 :45 Freshman-Algebra-Cox. -History- Gould. Junior- English-Cox. Senior- English- Cox. Junior- Physics-Easton Senior-Physics-Easton J unior-German -Ball. Senior- Study. J unior-Study. Senior- Germ an-B all. Latin-Gould. Senior-Study. Junior Senior- J unior-Study. History-Gould.

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views of life and taken to brooding over Hamlet, is that a certain rosy-cheeked Sophomore has gone walking with another man. So wags the world away, and we find in the songs of a hundred years ago an answering chord in our own hearts. The Baby Nine class, is, perhaps, the most entertaining, as their ideas are unique and entirely original. The Sophomores are clever but very diffident about voicing their opinion on certain elements of romance. They think so, but of course, with many blushes, they don't know. Juniors and Seniors have acquired assurance, and never entertain any doubts of their own opinions being correct. Years hence few of us will remember the hic, haic, hoc of Latin, or the maxims of Geometry, but We will be thankful that our English teacher cured us of that habit of saying ain't and made us pronounce our words correctly: and altho sometimes it seemed a bore to select beautiful lines from Tennyson and learn quotations from Shakespeare, because of this taste acquired in High School, we will turn to our old English classics, and meet them with the joy we meet old friends. - .Q .Q ALGEBRA Algebra is designed for use in high schools to initiate Freshmen into higer mathematics. It is especially interesting in the first year, as it is such a change from eight grade Arithmetic. It is quite exciting to watch thex's, y's and z's hop from one side of an equation to the other, and change their plus and minus signs in the operation. We had twenty-two in our class when we first started this study, but since all of our big boys have quituated we have only twelve left to iight it out, which is very hard to do, on account of the conditions of our recitation room, and the awful noise coming from a plumbing shop in the same building. We have only a six-foot blackboard, and two erasersg but we expect to cover as much work as the algebra classes have before us. . We have had much success in learning this year and we have enjoyed it very much with Miss Cox as our teacher. We sincerely wish the algebra class of next year as much success as we have had, and more, if possible. .Q .Q GERMAN The two German classes of the High School are ably taught by Herr Wilhelm Ball. We are fortunate in having, in him, a teacher who is familiar with conversational German. The first year German class has now reached the advanced stage of Im Vaterland, which treats on the government and home life of the German people. We have absorbed a great deal of German litera- ture, but have still found time for some singing. German songs have been learned and many of the class members are now looking forward to great careers in the widely famed German Glee Clubs. This happy class consists mostly of Freshmen, three Sophomores, and three Juniors, and has a record of being one of the first German classes whose