Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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M ,T A X Caging a Cougar for their door decoration is Odell Leslie. Members of the woodshop class had fun while assisting him in this daring deed. During the first week of November, first year Latin students were sold to second year students at the slave auction. How- ever the slave-driving craze didn't last long because everybody had to prepare for Open House during American Education Week. Classrooms were made tidy for the parents who came to see the school and meet the teachers. The following week attention turned to the first Abilene High-Cooper game. Enthusiasm and spirit mounted as students planned and worked together on door decorations and in ral- lies and skits. The Eagles brought home a victory. For Thanksgiving, the homerooms decorated boxes and filled them with food for the needy. The boxes Were dis- tributed on the day school was dismissed for the holiday. On the following Saturday, the Exchange Group boarded a char- tered bus for Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and two Weeks of fun and education, the northern way. 2-Latin Slave Auction 6-American Education Week 7-Future Teachers' Assembly 10-Big Spring Football Game 14-Exchange Students' Assembly l8HCooper Football Game 22-Thanksgiving Assembly 23-Thanksgiving Holidays 23-End Second Six Weeks 25-Exchange Students Leave 25-Colorado City Basketball Game 28-Band Assembly 28-Sweetwater Basketball Game 30-Piano Concert by Stephen Bardas Silently making their Way, these faculty hunters stalk the Cougar at the pep rally.

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A feCf1' Gnd G smile Sl1OWS the happiness of fhe 1961 Hogan, Sophomore Class Vice-President, and presented Homecoming Queen, Sondra Spradley, escorted by Kenneth with roses by Tim Timple, Student Council President. . , V -if-,fm-'eff i f as .. .xii :'f ,:5 ' 7 .Q . , Anxiously waiting in line at the barbecue, sponsored by the Student Council after the homecoming game, are these hungry students. Yellow helium-filled balloons iloat into the sky and disappear into the distance after the Warbirds make their first touchdown.

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Goodies, Good Times Arrive With Thanksgiving 'W 5 i 1 Bobby Lawson, Ianlyn Echols, and Iuiia Ann Mc- Danel, faculty members' children, attend play school. 5 These dishwashers were having quite a time getting W dishpan hands after the Mexican Dinner. Backstage the members ot the cast had a moment ot fun before going on stage to read their poetry at the Thanksgiving presentation. A .V s 2 '1Ni t 'fi Q . NEA r X' J QS3 Very intent and absorbed in their Work, Kay Carman and Carol Houston demonstrate their artistic talents for visitors during open house in November.