Amarillo High School - La Airosa Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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Social studies classes often set aside history lessons to learn what is going on now. The classes subscribe to current news magazines to keep up with the news. Cora LaGrone and Robert Hillerby are reading one of these magazines. One has to be brave to smile when tests are being returned. .These brave souls in Mrs. Margaret josserand's history class are left to right,-Carlene Hale, Patricia Kohl, Mrs. josserand, Arnold Knox and john Knxghtstep. 12

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When a player comes off the field during a game, he is met by the coach with instructions and the manager with towels and smelling salts. jimmy Dean listens to Coach O. A. Phillips while Lane Langford, manager, stands by. The Sandie-Rebel football game got off to a popping start with the bursting of paper sacks. Students were provided with sacks form the cheerleaders to explode on the first kick-off of the cross-town rivals match. The Cheerleaders lead the Sandie student body in a fight song during a pep rally. The ring leaders are Shorty McCaffree, Carol Patterson, Eddie Fritchie, Cathy Patterson, David Smith and Linda Neal.

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Twenty years ago, all a graduate from high school needed to get into college was his diploma and a few recommendations. Now, however, in this age of anxiety and bomb shelters, a student needs something more than that. He needs a good high school average, high scores on various tests which most colleges require, and creative abilities as well as powers to just memorize facts. There are now accelerated classes, an unheard of thing twenty years ago, and there is a highly stepped up sense of challenge. It is no longer possible, in these times, to do just what one wants to do. To attempt to do so is to commit social suicide. One cannot live on the reputation of the reputation that he might have made. One cannot simply be highly intelligentg he must be able and willing to accept and take orders and directions from his more experienced elders and peers if necessary. If a student refuses to take directions and do itthe way it's supposed to be done, then he will never be workable or happy in our social order. That's not conformity, that's just the way we have to live. Relics of the past are kept in glass cases in the halls. Mrs. Lela Crossett explains their origin to Gary Weaver, Perry Baily, Richard Bivins and Rusty Alexander, junior American history students. 13