Bartow High School - Summerlin Echo Yearbook (Bartow, FL)

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May We Proudly Present - Our School Seventy-six years ago, a Bartow pioneer, Jacob Summerlin, gave a tract of land for educational purposes. In his honor the new school was called Summerlin Institute, a name that is hallowed by tradition and kept alive in the name of our year- book, on our diplomas, in the S emblazoned on the sweaters of our lettermen. However, fol- lowing the custom of naming each of Polk Coun- ty's high schools for the communities in which they are located, Summerlin long ago was desig- nated Bartow' Senior High School” by the coun- ty school board. To strangers this may at first seem confusing, but for us . . . we're proud to attend Bartow Senior High and uphold the Sum- merlin traditions and fame. Through familiar halls we enter . . . Each day Old Glory proudly waves o'er our school, and just below we display our Florida state flag. Bugle calls start and end the day.

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I. Our School 4 II. Our Crowd 17 III. Our Groups 70 IV. Our Activities 104 V. Our Younger Set 140 VI. Our Boosters 168 VII. Your Index 173 School we love dearly . . . rising . .. grandly to the blue.

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Study Day Is Our Own Special Day Probably most American high schools have the problems that Bartow Senior High struggled for years to solve. But all haven't found the same solution: study day, now in its third year and already firmly established as a tradition. Study day solves the problem of how teachers may give special assistance on subject assignments and give make-up tests as well as the problem of student participation in activities during school hours without missing class time. Now held each Wed- nesday, on study day students sign up for those subjects in which they need help or must take tests, for club and other organization meetings, for activities, for additional study hall or library time, and attend assembly. Summarized like this, it sounds complicated: but it works and—we like it! Jeanette McGraw and Harriet Fra- zier conduct the morning devo- tional. Members of the F T.A. ro- tate this standing assignment. A sextet, composed of Allen Garrett, Jerry Mitchell. Du dies' Putnam. Roy Lovett. Jack Davis, and Jimmie Gee Collins, entertain the assembly with a humorous rendition of Fraulein. Annual staffers Chris Underwood. Gloria Estes, and Gerry Conner perform in a sales promotion skit.