Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Year Ends o Air gets colder and crisper as theChrist- mas season approaches. A large, green Christmas tree fills the main hall with the fresh fragrance of evergreen. Voices fill the air with song as pageant is presented. Once bare doors are covered with a variety of decorations. School dismisses for a brief vacation and students and teachers leave thoughts of classwork behind. Part Two of the Talent Show is pre- sented Dec. 14. The Squires play to a capacity audience. They QBill Gossett, Wade Dec.3-4 Dec.7 Dec.7-8 Dec.1O-11 Dec.13 Dec.14 Dec.17 Dec.21 Dec.22 Dec.28 Dec.23Jan.2 Dec.3O n Light Note Shaw, Bertie Kreisle, and Doug Harmony wonfirst place for the best band and first place for the most popular talent act of the fallsemester. High school students from all over Austin crowd Town Hall in Hancock Center for the organizational meeting of the Travis County Youth Council. Student Council president Grady Rylander speaks. Committees are formed and a constitution accepted. Senior Gary Anderson is Cou ncilCoordinator. Other Maroons have committee positions. Corpus basketball tournament Maroons vs. Bryan Christmas choir festival Austin basketball tournament Deck the Doors Maroons vs. Bryan Squires band assembly Maroons vs. McCallum Maroons vs. Johnston Orchestra performance Maroons vs. Springwoods Christmas vacation Maroons vs. Lampasas Preparing for their assembly program are t group's name was engraved on the Stude presentation. Student Council members put and decorat he Squires. The program was a sell-out, and the nt Council plaque as the most popular fall talent ed the school Christmas tree. Every year canned food contributed by students for needy families is stacked under the tree. 29

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Mrs. Laginia Hale and Mrs. Alice Reed gather up their beloved plants to give them home care over the holidays. Grady Rylander, fall semester president of the Student Council, spoke at the organizational meeting of the Austin Youth Council at Town Hall in Hancock Center. 28 v in . .,,, ...,. ' f ' 91 bw w -git ,-ff-i. 2. Q G , l2i5i153g5iqU!lgigfggg..G.ggrg Wig ggmilligsggz .des ,aw of f m:-1, of 'f W iaiff. , if i ' ' : V V Q 'f l 1, i Q 'W EW ' wi 21- Q ' K -i --' iz 2 'Swift' ' -..53mg.,.i,-.iff I - 1,2 215 L ' 2 filfis59mlq 5lh 5T9xYGYf1u257f21!SEE:f? ,,.,affe.:mB,2',4e5r,gggg5:1gg5.ggii.g,15gfg.:f,.,, .,.,,,,.,,,...,,.., , ,.,. '-use me i L5 4 u i 3 I s

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Mrs. Bessie Darby's sophomore advisory won first place in the comic division with its double-header door. At left is outer Gift Wrapped Doors wrapping and at right the inner. It's the morning before deadline and all through the advisory, everyone is fran- tic to put his door up. Deadline is met, the judges choose winners in secular, religious, and comical divisions, and prizes are given. Christmas warmth is felt throughout the building as Yuletide themes range from Santas to Scrooges, pears to partridges, bells to Tannebau ms. Glimpses, glances, amazement and awe are expressions directed to the beauty of Deck-the-Doors, 1965. Second Place in The SSCUIGY division Mrs. Grace Bishop's sophomore advisory received second place in the was taken by Mrs. Merle Jordan's religious divisign. senior advisory. 30