Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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AND HERE COMES THE PITCH-IA! Right, Betty House and Gail Murphy take advantage of the change in weather to get in practice for a good old snowball throwing contest. v.:m1.':,x:,vfm.r:'fr:3.smo:mrmrmx4w:.u:.e.:wga - ngxrwawwnqsaumaz- ,fr THEY PICK 'EM PRETTY-It was a hard chore for the FFA to select one among so many pretty nominees for sweetheart. Here Stephanie McCon- nell, joy Henson, and Patsy Davis anxiously await the announcement of FFA Sweetheart for 1956. 1 A MANY SPLENDORED THING-Kay Pearson is just one of the many unbclieving and excited AHS'ers who will not soon forget November 8, ' 1955, THE DAY IT SNOWED.

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?.'1?'fWf DAY FOB REMEMBERING-On November ll, we at AHS, along with Americans all over the world, paused a moment to remember those who died in the service of their country. Sally Emerson places a wreath on the memorial to AHS exes who fought in World War I, while Mike Cotton, Robert Cray, Mike Nalley, and Roddy Edens look on. View A 1.gfE5k. e xl' 5' 2 '??'5fQi15PIi9P 2?i- AZ'EmTfff.E2E5L-I-.fifif 1,,QJl2ie.fgQiis.s,Qxiii.. ,ff 7 , MR. BAKER, MH. CLEMENS, the business manager for the Austin Public Schoolsg and Mr. Carruth, sugerintendent of schools, ins ct the beautiful new seats and floor of the au 'torium. New aisles were also made, and the floor was slanted for easier vision.

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BOOK FRIENDS Mrs Ceor in Robbins librarian- joan Huntl , Loretta Taylor and Margaret Ferdi- nantlson arrange posters and isplnys to call attention to Nations Book Week November I3-19. This is the thirty seventh year for the nnnunl affair , , A 'wife-5 'ml 'Qi-lffS?'.. ,iivwi -Eff 4.1 ' ir' THE GANG'S ALL HERE-for a ri roarin' snowball H ht. Students couldn't wait to get out of school and get in gmt strange stuff called snow as Betty Cook, Dick Smith, Barry Collier, Ed Coker, jonathan Deckard, and Bert Cromack illus- trnte.