Amarillo High School - La Airosa Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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Senior cheerleader David Smith leaps high during a football season pep rally. Pep rallies were held during basketball season also. They typify Sandie Spirit in motion. The cheerleaders sold Sandie car stickers during fall registration. Cathy Patterson sells one to Ronald Boyd and Leslie Owens in the main hall. Three senior boys, Harry Day, Ronnie Day and Billy Kirkwood, take ad- vantage of the snow for some frolic during their lunch period.

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The Tri-captains of the Sandie football team, left to right, Gordon Hunt, Jim Edwards, and Mike Dewlen, shake hands with the captain of the Plainview team preceding the clash. The Sandies won, 45-0. Ann Thomas, Miss Laura Roberts's sophomore homeroom representative, proudly shows the plaque won by her homeroom during the Thousand Can Food Drive. Bob Thrasher and Robert Thompson carried the offering onto stage. 2 1 Elizabeth Edwards's parents are greeted by Glen Kibler, biology, teacher, on Back To School Night which is the night set aside for parents to become associated! with . the teachers. ' - Lt. Carol Tilden briefs jean Green on the possibilities of a career in the Women's Army Corps. Lt. Tilden was one of the representatives of the Armed Services who informed the students at Sandieland about military life.

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We take part in many things. There are hardly any interests that cannot be satiated at Amarillo High School. There are numerous clubs, many with inter- esting side activities. These clubs spark the students to think for themselves and gain extra knowledges about their special interests. Cf V .4 ' ' ' 4 There are scores of things to do here at AHS. Hardly a week goes by that something new is not happening. There is a pep rally, or a football game, or perhaps an election or contest of some sort. We show enthusiasm in our activities. We let ourselves go and feel our present day problems slip away in the heat and excitement of the impending game, or in our special clubs. Often our futures are decided by our participation in an activity. A moderate interest can grow into a hobby and then into a life-time project. We often fail to realize how fortunate we are in having such facilities at our fingertips. In many places, in our own country, there is nothing to turn to but the street for amusement, and teens our own age have no way to release pent-up emotions. Youth- ful exuberance, undirected and undisciplined, can very easily take on the form of violence. The activities at Amarillo High School do not just keep us busy. They offer a constructive, respecting program. Our activities are not just a means of keep- ing us off the streets. They are offered to us in all sincerity to help us help ourselves. We are burning energy, yes, but we are burning it in a good, wholesome way. We are fortunate to have these ways of releasing our tensions in a socially acceptable way. Y Take Me Along 9 Gene Fowler uses song to express the extent of his feelings in the show