Baton Rouge High School - Fricassee Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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Magnet program provides inspiration Now we have risen above our now amusing nickname. and enjoy ourselves as much as others do at poking fun at ourselves. Baton Rouge High is the only school in the parish that allows everyone to be themselves. The old adage. There are no strangers here, only friends we haven't met, is truly appropriate of Baton Rouge High. Everyday finds us discovering a new friend or a new fact about our school. Most of our students were not successful in junior high schools. There simply wasn't enough to occupy them. Baton Rouge High must be one of the most dynamically busy places in the state. • Opening

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The Jazz Ensemble backs up soloist Bill George After a tiring day. Marty Lafleur relaxes. BRHS is number one Participating during Sr. Toga Day are Moiissa Baugh and Patricia Gonzalez scores, or quiz bowl tryouts, or play rehearsals or any other activities that prelude enjoyment. When we first came to Baton Rouge High, we cringed at being called •‘Maggot or other dubious names other schools conjured. ite places and forgetting about any problems school might present. We do not just concern ourselves with SAT composite Opening 13

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Our administrators go out of their way to see that we are versatile and studious. In 1976. Mr. Faucette appeared on a news program stating the values of a Magnet school. He hoped a school that would be a place for creative and intelligent students would be formed — a place where the scholar and the artist worked together, where devotion and trust were vital and where school spirit was based on excellence and drive and where versatility takes precedence over excellence in one field (football). His hopes have been fulfilled So have ours.