Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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Chanting as they march, the Pep Club invades Box Butte Avenue. A kiss and flowers are the reward for Miss Rosemary Oxford. Homecoming Queen. For the first time, the community, as well as the student body, witnessed the presentation of the Homecoming Queen. During the half of the North Platte-Alliance game, Game Co-captain Lannie Shel-madine presented Miss Rosemary Oxford as queen for a night. Straighten those lines, you guys! shout members of the high school band. 9

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EARLY FALL Homecoming Festivities Predominate the Scene Spectators find this a familiar pose for majorettes Judy Edwards, Linda Fry, and Joyce Jordon. Traditions came tumbling down as Homecoming took on a new look for the students and community. Floats were replaced by decorated store windows which boasted such sayings as SMEAR 'EM and LICK THE PLATTERS CLEAN. The downtown pep. rally excited the community as much as the students. This excitement carried through to the game, where the Homecoming Queen and her attendants were presented. The festivities were brought to a fitting close by a well-attended dance which honored the alumni. Fans come to their feet during an exciting moment in the game.

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LATE FALL Powerful Emotions Grip Entire Student Body This classroom scene was no doubt duplicated in schools all over the nation. There was no slamming of locker doors, no hustle-bustle in the halls, no loud, boisterous laughs so characteristic of high school life. Instead, students crowed around radios asking each other if it were really true. This was November 22, 1963, that tragic day when an assassin's bullet took the life of President John F. Kennedy. Students didn't rush into a class and open their books to English, or physics, or even history. They were somehow aware that they were witnessing an important chapter in American history. High school students joined fellow Americans and world citizens in a weekend of grief and sorrow over such infamy. All watched anxiously as the reins of government transferred from John F. Kennedy to Lyndon B. Johnson. 10 The flag at half-mast tells its own story.