Lutheran High School - Paw Prints Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Unintimidated by a bar- rage of thrusting, jab- bing paper plates Boost- ers turn their pancakes and sausages, cooking them slowly, pains- takingly, to aromatic perfection. Appreciatively Mrs. Elda Schutte surveys the load key clubbers have stack- ed by the boxfuls into the Thrift Shop truck after a successful drag- day at Lutheran High. 3 Footstools and carpets, old clothes and silver- ware — all are saleable items that materialized after a week of promo- tion posters and chor- uses of Bringing in the Bags. Precision pouring and skillful turning insures the best thickness and consistency in a pan- cake. Inexperienced dads soon catch on to the tricks of this culinary art.

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» 6 3QMK ' ' « i!«f. The two mightiest battalions shielding LHS from obliteration are probably our ever-on-the-alert Boosters Club and Ladies Guild. Ranks of common papas leap into aprons and heat up their trusty griddles before the sun ' s rays first steal across the football field. Cunningly brandishing pancakes and sausages they succeed in im- planting laughter and hope in the hearts of all the disgruntled stu- dents and faculty. The gusto springing forth at the pancake break- fast is a hardy buttress for our spirit throughout the year. And never ever to be overlooked is the unit of loving ladies keeping us strong against monetary deficiency. Thrift Shop customers may seem to provide the spoils brought to us by the Guild. However they come only after the women sacrifice all the time and goods needed to transport, mend, clean, repair, store, price , and make saleable the worthless iteams we donate. Day and night they wash and iron clothes, cut rags, and scrub and tidy up the shop. Let us not under- rate the steadfast Guild and Boosters bearing us forever forward — on and on and on.

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No one expected anything out of the ordinary in Trailblazer. Its readers were completely satisfied with a run of the mill paper about Lutheran High School. Students grabbed it up and devoured it regard- less of its sameness. Receiving almost no criticism the staff fell into a rut and put out a newspaper each month that looked very much like last month ' s — or even last year ' s. The year looked empty and boring for this year ' s staff. Even the problems encountered were the same year after year. They had to fill eight pages with material that would fit easily on half that space and they had to make financial ends meet without charging the readers anything. Why don ' t we do Trailblazer a little differently this year? someone spoke up. The staff members pon- dered the question. Why not? And so they changed things. September ' s issue was only four pages long and said that non-student readers would have to pay for their subscription. All across LHS Con- sumerland hands clapped foreheads in dismay. How dare they change Trailblazer from what it used to be? However the staff was exultant and rejoiced at not having to try to fill in blank spots in the paper. Sec- ond period Trailblazer became a journalism class. Quality had tri- umphed over quantity. Dissatisfaction died down as the months went by. The sports section had been shortened and features were minimal. Fine Arts seemed to have been banished from the publi- cation. But students looked forward eagerly to each new issue. After all, it was still about them, still filled with regular.