Atascadero High School - Santa Lucia Yearbook (Atascadero, CA)

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Semors Prmdent PAUL BAKER Vxre Preudent DOREEN RUSSELL Se reiary RUTH Gut Class Hlstory LOUISF BOYD 34 Batter up' called the umpnre and a strmg of about forty five brxght and shmmg freshmen stepped mto lme We were exceedmgly green but had hugh hopes of becommg the best team ever to play ball at M B U H S The senxors pntched us the freshman receptlon as our first ball and on that we got to first base After that We managed to work our may around so that by the end of our freshman year we had crossed the home plate wxth a score that was hugh for begmners Well well saxd the umpnre at the begmnmg of our second mmng Heres that ambxtlous bunch of scrubs up to bat agam Art you ready? You bet we are' those peppy sopnomores crned nn a chorus And th1s year were gomg to show you just how we play ball And dnd we show them' Defy mg superstmon we gave tvso dances on Frxday the thirteenth one m the fall and one nn the sprmg both blg h1ts and gettmg us cheers galore from the grandstand We had representatxves of our team nn all the xmportant school actxvxtxes and to further demonstrate our mexhausuble supply of school spmt attended all the games we possxbly could What a break sald the umpnre Here comes that square shootmg team up for thexr thnrd mnmg I wonder how they ll score this tlme He dxdn t have to wonder long for we began lmmedxately wx 1th the plays usually made to pxle up the runs Our final bxd for hxgh score was the umor Cxrcus a huge success makmg even the hlgh and m1ghty semors condcscend to cheer us a bxt But our supreme trnumph was the Prom a bl event xn xtstlf but all the bngger because our team was up to bat thxs txme If a group of play ers ex er co operated to make a bxg hut and a home run we dxd xt then because ours vsas the bxggest and best Prom seen xn many a year at M B U H S And now we come to our last mmn We had shown the ump1re the opposmg teams and every one of the spectators that we were 1 team to be respected No one dared to call us scrubs any longer We were full fledged ball players who had made for ourselves a most envnble reputatxon But as 1 Hnal hut or two, we ednted the Semor Scoop, a weekly paper whxch was largely responsmble for the success of thus Annual, and we gave one of the best semor plays ever to be produced Now we have graduated, as all good teams must do, to the bxgger field, where we all have to play, not as a team worklng collectxvely, but as xndxvxduals, each playmg the best game he or she knows how on the baseball dlamond of lxfe -vEf8lz?f- I L' ,.., ,,,.,, .,.,s,.,,,. , ....,...,.., , . ,,.. , ,, ,,,,,.,,,,, . .,,. ,.,,,.. .,.,,,,. , . ,. ,,,, ,... . .,,,...,. Treaxurer, r.,, ..,,,, - ,l,,l, , .,.,,,,..,,,,,l,,rp.,..,,,,., ,,.,,,,,,,,,, - ,,,, ,, ,,.. ,..,..,,. ,,., R U TH Hotumn . i ,, ,, . . . . , . , - ' 7 QI l! ' ' V ' ' ' ' K! 9 g 1 i 7 9 . . I . I ,, u nr 1 , ' ' u - 1 ' Y - ' 7 yr . Y. . . V . ' J D 7 7 5 , , we ll il ' ' ll ' ' 9 1 ' . . . V , . . ,, . , . . v. 3 . 0 u J , , V 9 g X 9 . . V V - r . . . . 7 . . 3 . . U I . . Q' 9 7 . . ' ' an