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

Page 5 text:

Amarillo High School Amarillo, Texas 1962 LA AIROSA Volume LXVI Published by The Yearbook Staff SI Journalism Classes

Page 7 text:

e There's something in the air at Amarillo High School. It's a sensation in the forearms. a tingling ofthe extremities, faces broken by grins filled with uninhibited joy. - ' It's something one can't .put a label on. We can't write it down or take a picture of it for describe it. Most people call it Sandie Spirit. What is this thing called Sandie Spirit? This feeling is pride- in a school that is no other school. It is pride inthe people who belong in Amarillo High School. It is pride in years off tradition and heritage of a sort, and pride in those who have gone before us. It's a feeling. It's a feeling we get when we hear the school song, a sparkle we feel when we know our school's done well, an unbounded joy we ex- perience when the voices at a pep rally swell so loud that we fear for the rafters. It's a feeling of belonging to something that we know to be good. There is no limit to the feeling. No one can experience it for us. We have to feel it ourselves. It has to come from within us. It can't be infectious unless we're willing to be infected by it. An example of this feeling is the way we felt when we saw our Queen of Sandieland, Michele LaMarCa,y being crowned by Principal Ross H. Larsen Qas pictured at leftj, during the traditional coronation ceremony held in October. This annual can't record the feeling. It can pictorially record incidents of an activity and things of an academic nature. It can't record feeling, but moments of feeling. The feeling must be recorded by the individual. We can't write it down or take a picture of it or describe it. Most people call it Sandie Spirit.