Chamberlain High School - Totem Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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T tt i I T . i l 1: l il' uit EpHogue Totem regresses - through NEAT WHITE-BELLIED SFAGULLS screeched overhead, through an otherwise deserted blue sky. As we squished Through the salt like sand, Transistors blasted Trom in- numerable clusters ot bathers, a crowd ot merrymakers surrounded a three-man combo playing Tor aspiring limbo artists, and here and there a swinging bongo rocked. Down the beach a tirmly implanted crutch marked the sanctuary ot the Totem statt. An obliging sun gently scorched us and more. While we absorbed The panacea and replenished our spirits, we retlected upon The year, Chamberlain, and our Totem. September, I960, had reopened The doors ot CHS. Enthusiastic greetings were exchanged with a special welcome tor our Danish student, Flemming Schultze, betore we again slid into our com- tortable little academic ruts. Meanwhile, The Russians still retused to let world attairs grind to a peacetul stand. Khrushchev was aT iT again, planning a happy party tor Red satellite rulers-on Manhattan Island with the UN as a backdrop. Cuba's clown, Fidel Castro, wound up being The lite ot The party when he and his colleagues slaughtered chickens in Their plush hotel suite and had tresh meat tor dinner. Dag Hammer- skiold emerged as The hero ot The year when he rose during a general assembly ot The UN to detend his position as Secretary-General and received a standing ovation trom the world's leaders. Hurricane Donna swept up The State ot Florida, smashing Key West and Miami Beach and barely missing us aT Tampa. l96l brought changes in The political scene. lt was January 3rd when Chamberlain's halt-trozen band ot The Fighting Chiets pertormed tor The inauguration ot Florida's new governor, Farris Bryant. Seventeen days later another treezing inauguration took place in tront ot the Capitol. Thousands jammed into Washington, D. C. to see John F. Kennedy take his oath ot ottice and become The 35th President ot The United States. sand and suntan lotion February 27, I96I, Chamberlain's tlag tlew at halt-mast. We had lost our beloved principal. His last assignment had come too soon. The time allotted To him to do his work was only titty years, but in Those years he crowded a century ot good and kind deeds. Because he loved us, he made The rules strict and iust. He wanted to leave a legacy ot respect tor learning, law, and the individual. This he did with a school-Chamberlain. He acted in The only way he could, The only way he knew how-the way ot The All American Principal. The world around us continued To rage. Riots tlared up again and again in Laos and the Congo. Closer to home, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, beheld another kind ot riot. Released trom tensions ot mid-tearm exams 35,000 vaca- tioning college students whooped it up on the streets and beaches where the boys are. A darling Ham cleverly pushed the right buttons on his exciting capsule ride through space to become the United States' most renowned chimp. Alan Shepard, our tirst astronaut, tlew trom Cape Canaveral through The stars to set America's hearts high. These are The events which have shaped our world, our school, and us. We ot the Totem statt are especially- gratetul To the people who have been ot special help in our work this year. Mr. Carl Rassler tor taking over a tremendous iob and doing tremendously: Mr. Brooks, our printer: Mrs. Nancy White. our alter ego advisor: Mr. Tom Taggart, our photog- rapher: Betty Monahan tor taking the senior portraits: Doris Moore, our secretary: Fred Partin tor doing such a wondertul job with the color pictures: the new statt members, our apprentices: Mike Mickey tor throwing swinging statt parties besides working so hard on the statt betore he moved: Davy Runslow and Ralph tor enlivening the dummy pages: and others who have helped us. These retlections and myriad others tilter Through our minds as we lie here, just as the sand is tiltering through our toes. Right now we are even gratetul that the sun is going down.

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