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From all over the 48 states have come the Oak Ridge families. Proof is the unique collection of pennants in the Wildcats' Den. The good neighbors are Bill Cobb of Tennessee and Marty Rolfing of Minnesota. Marty wears zomb-ees without ankle socks, a favorite fashion among the girls at Oak Ridge High.
by GAYLEN GOODRICH
Because of its isolation from its sister cities, Oak Ridge places strong emphasis on inter-community activities. Strung across its eight square miles are innumerable youth centers, tennis courts and the second largest outdoor swimming pool in the United States.
But of all these facilities, the Wildcats' Den is tops with young folks—as any one of the 761 Oak Ridge High School students will tell you at the drop of a straw—because it is their special hangout, the place to which they swarm in their leisure time to whiff the patter, spin the platters and glut on cokes and goo. Scene of gay dances and parties, the Den is also headquarters for many serious discussions by Oak Ridge boys and girls whose surroundings and everyday life have made them singularly aware of the world-shattering force of atomic power. "We realize,: they say, "that the ushering in of the Atomic Age has cast aside all frontiers and that from now on it has got to be one world or none."
The porch railing is a comfortable place to perch and blow plastic bubbles, From left to right, Joan Gilliam, Mary Lou Miller and Marjorie Curtis huff and they puff. The three are also active in Oak Ridge High's Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis, which crusades for the peaceful use of atomic energy.
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