Lancaster High School - Vidette Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOLS Commerce Club is also .a product of l9Z0 initaatlse Our most brilliant achievement in the scholastic line however and the one upon which we pride ourselwes the most as the degree of perfection to which We have mused the Vldelte Indeed the publication this vear far overshadow ed tr'ose of previous years both in quality and quantity and our Christmas and May numbers regular monthly issues surpassed exen the annuals o preaious classes The Vzdetle now ranks among the best high school publications in the country Socially we kept pace with our achiexements in general scholar sl ip and athlet cs We held sexeral affairs which were unequalled an success chief among which were the l970 Reception the Senior Prom nd the Vzdette dance Financially the latter eaent was one of the 1 ost successful eaer held by ana class and made possible the unexcelled May issue And now as we look back at our career we cannot help but feel tnat we haxe been successful We h ae tried an small measure to re tirn the great benefits bestow ed upon us bv our Alma Mater by faith tally upholding her honor her principles her traditions and bv giving our best whether an school or on the athletic field With indomitable courage and high hope we face the future proud of what L H S has ties and we are sure that although we are about to pass forever from lcr protection our Alma Mater will ewer haae a warm place an our l Parts Charly- Lilaz-21 ffliiliflifll The time for the closing scene of our school drama has arrived and we the actors and actresses are taking our plate for our parts in the liial chorus As Freshmen we reali7ed our place and acted accordingly Timad nd slas but serv willing to learn and always anxious to support school undertakings Wc came back in our Sophomore year with a feeling of great superiority ow er the new Freshmen and we started upon our Sophomore career with the idea of making the Class of l9ZU a class that would lt looked up to and honored by the under classmen This wear fue new teachers were added to the facultv Miss I andis Mass Ellmaker Mass Sullivan Miss Stonesifer and Miss Bitnei Our class colors blue and white and the design for our pennants v ere selected this year We also published an issue of our school maga I ne the Vzdctte the only class that has exer done this Then came our Junior year By this time we were recogn17ed by all otlaer classes and they whispered and admitted among themselaes 'naturally thea would not let us hear ltr that we w ere the best class in Hagh School 18 T K I I . Q I I . I L L V 6 V 1 L Y av L . 1 - Y L 1 I 1 lvv I v K v A b V I - 1 L I T . a . : . ' . . ' . , , 1 , , A . , ' ' , t r , ' . . ' Q - - A 1 I V L r u 7 1. . . . L . done for us. grateful for its friendships. its associations. its opportuni- 1.. .. 0. 'V - q ' n V 4 Q A . L 1 L Y 4 ' w 1- - . . I Y Y Y V ' ' . Y I I A . L e nc I Y I 4 ' V Y A I Y

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THE ORACI E of Cxcero and solld geometry We novv began to com out xnto socxety tn earnest and held a serres of very successful dancmg lessons at the Irrs Club For some unaccountable reason the Senxors began to display alarmlng pUglllSIlC tendencles even golng to the extent of attemptlng to break UI our dancmg class I-Iovvever vve proved to them that we vvere not unacquarnted vvrth the manly art of self de tense and after a br ef sl xrm sh we I ut the mv aders to rout In mterclass basketball that year vve vv ere not very successful for although we had the greatest number of nd vxdual stars n tl e leagu mternal frrctton and lack or team work rumed our chances for success However we more than atoned for thas setback vv hen vve captured the baseball champtonsh p vvxthou a single defeat Incldentally although our basketball team vvas detcated at home we vvhlppecl some of the lastest county teams by dec srve scores We novv suffered the second loss on our I-llgh School career vv hen our beloved classmate Paul Westenberger died an the serv lce of hrs country A letter of sympathy together with a beautiful vv reath of flovvers was sent to hrs bereaved famlly Socrally vve contmued our good work by holdrng the Jumor Receptlcn at the Hotel Brunsvvrck ball room Needless to say tt vv as a vvonderful success and overshadowed any other socnal event held at the Hugh School an recent years In addmon to the Receptlon vve held several other socral affatrs vv lth the most gratlfylng results efforts that the Pythagorean Llterary and SCICUIIHC Soct tres vvcre or ganlzed Indeed they could not have existed had rt not been for the unfarlrng support given them by the Class of 1920 We finlshed the year tn .1 blaze of glory by staging a verv su ccssful Jumor I-Iop at the Hotel Brunsvvack and by capturrng the mter class baseball champronshll vvrthout a defeat belng chalked up agalnst Our record as Junrors speaks lor itself' Our Senror year vv as an unbroken successron of brrlllant vtftorles scholastlc athletrc and social In fact vve vv on practrcally everv con test nto wh ch vve entered as a class vvhtle our social events vv ere the talk of the school The football and bask tball XJYSIIV teams com posed mostly of Sen-ors enjoyed a most successful season droppanfl but two games apiece In the mterclass basketball league we vvere supreme capturing the champronshrp wath lrttle dafliculty vvhnle rn baseball vve repeated the record of our Junior year Thxs IS to our knowledge the nrst trme that any class has vv on the champronshxp rn any sport for tvvo consecutive years In track vve vvere also nrst vvm ntng by large margins W lfkevvlse flaovv ed our supremacy an scholarshlp and bcsld s be mg the mam supporters of the Laterary and Screntafnc Soc et es vve vs on cvery literary contest ID vvhlch we partlcnpated The nevvlv organxzed 4 I7 1 x I 7 v v A Y V ' Y. . . ' f 1' i . ' : ' '. . A Q ' i a 2. . J . I - . . Y ' K V l ' . V . . . 1 Scholastically, we also led the way, and it was mainly through our I ' V' . I' .- us. . K . i . i ,L L ' , ' ' , I . . , . D . .... . V . . V I v v y ' Av. - I : f - . ' ' ' . a' e -

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THE ORACLE Thus ve1r b1sketball xxas resumed and xxe xxere xxell represented 1 the XIYSIIV bx AUDI May B1ssler vxho l1ter xx IS the Senlor c1pt11n besldes h1x1ng 1 xerx ine cl1ss te1m We returned ln our Sen1orye1r IS 1 brrllnntlx polrshed gem xxxth 1ll thc rough edges smoothed 1nd polished 1nd possessmg 1n ur of rtllnement 1nd dlgnltx The number of our f1cultx had been mcre1sed bx the 1dd1t1on of lx lss Oxx ens Mxss B1teson Mrss Klnard and Miss Dlller Thus xe1r xx1s trulx 1 remarkable one Our XIYSIIW b1sketb1ll nm h1d the unusu1l dlstrnctron of vxlnnmg ex rx g1me thex pl1xed Our cl1ss te1m xx 1s exceptronallx good 1lso Our motto deslgn for our r-ngs 1nd cl1ss floxxer xxere chosen x In the lxxnd ln the hlstorx of the school 1nd too much pruse cmnot be glxen to our ll1LlSlCll dlrectress Mlss M1rg1ret Humphrexrlle for her un tmng efforts to brmg the concert up to the hlghest st1nd1rd The Vzdette under the management of the Senlor SIITT has been letter throughout the Whole year than 1nx other edltlons 1nd xxe congr1tul1te the staff on thelr excellent work The Senior pl1x Green Stockmgs under the dlrectlon of Mrss Ruth Mox er f1r excelled any prevlous performmce lflil bx lts success lded to the 1lre1dy lllustrlous fame of the Class of l970 We re1ll1e th1t xve h1xe m1de m1st1kes but our crntlcs h1xe been lsmcl Ind xxe h1xe been p1t1ent 1nd persevermg 1nd noxx 1fter four x11rs of studv mingled with misfortunes 1nd ple1sures xxe 1re reldx to step out mto the xxorld xxe 1re at the close of the l1st scene of our school dr1m1 1nd as xxe xx atch the sloxxly falling curtlm sealing for ex er our Hrgh School lrfe xt IS vxlth proudly beatmg he1rts filled xxnth fond memorres and loxe for our Alma Mater Ind xxrth 1 hope for tl t future 1nd 1 sigh for the p1st xxe m1ke our Hn1l boxx l9 1 I X - 4. I 1 L s I Ts 1 I A. 7 1 K - X . .K . ' t lx: L 4 I I I . V- I K V A I I 6 V - earl' ' year. The Girls' Glee Club concert was the most successful affaxr of lts ac . . ' ' . - I.