C E Byrd High School - Gusher Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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19 114 LIFE Measuring picture sizes for the dummy sheets of High Life are, standing: Donna Laskey and Fran Aimer, Co- Editorsg and Karen Smith, Managing Editor. Seated: Miss Betty Harrel, fac- ulty advisor. The High Life is the school newspaper, which is compiled, published, and circulated by seven departments: the Advertising staff, the Business staff, the Circulation staff, the Exchange department, two Editorial staffs and the Art Staff. The High Life had the honor of being rated the Best AA Newspaper of 1953 in Louisiana. Last year this publication won first place in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and Quill and Scroll International Honor Rating. as Ft is ,, One of Miss Harrel's Journalism classes practices proofreading in workbooks. Sandra Simmons, Club Editorg Mary Ann Wilhelmi, Personality Editorg Betty Hoye, News Editorg and Paul Greenberg, Sports Editor, look over the fin- ished product. 23

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THE HIGH 2 fgii t Tin w A' v tk . Looking over a printed version of their work is the Business staff, consisting of, seated: Mrs. Zachary Breazeale, faculty ad- visorg Sybil Tyrrell, Dick Calhoun, Janice Crow. Standing: Patty Clark, Virginia Henslee, Roger Christian, Barbara Hudson, and Gloria Gaffney. Headline counting is always a task, but it has to be done, as Janna White, Junior Assistantg Mary Simmons and Pat Peyton, Co-Feature Editorsg and Pat Carlton, Junior Assistant, find out. The Advertising staff includes, seated: Cay Quinn, .lanna White, Kay Savony, Martha Carroll, Amelia McCord, Mary McLean. Standing: Elizabeth Dorr, Jackie Gribble, Juanita Morrison, June Moore, Betty Fullilove, Jane Oxford, Sylvia Small, Dorothy Akin, This .l0l1rI1aliSm class is learning the headline counts and Shy Richardson. of different size types. .G .5 f-5 F..

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,i Travel and growth characterized the 1953-54 Byrd High Band. The Band was the guest band at the reading held at L.S.U. in February. Concerts were exchanged with Vicksburg, Mississippi besides the regular February and May concerts. The Band, starting with 70 members, has grown to a 98 piece band. The Band enjoyed a most successful football season, topped off by a trip to New Orleans with the North Louisiana State Champs. The Band department strives to acquaint the music student with the finest in music literature performed to the best of his ability, to develop a sensitive appreciation and enjoyment of music as an art, and to instill in him a sense of self-pride and responsibility. MR, BENNER Director BYRD HIGH BAND First row: Shirley Austin, Mona Walker, Paul Gray, Celia Smith, Joy Lynn Davies, Ann Kilpatrick. Second row: Winona Lightfoot, Marion Shaner, Marylin Haley, Perry Prater, Gaylia Gillespie, Robert Dickinson, Walter Hamelback, Robert Herring, Jane llgenfritz, Frances Nixon, Jackie Morris. Third row: Gordon Gamm, Betty Webb, James Jarnigan, Connie Johnson, Gene Robinson, Jerry Rosen, Randy Tallman, David Gaignard, Lee Fuller, Billy Jack Gant, Larry French. Tommy Hickox, Buddy Daly, Reggie Harris. Fourth row: Price Moore, Bruce McDonald, Donald Sanford, Edmund Smith, Sammy Ferguson, Adrian May, Don Winterrowd, Joe Hill, Rosemary Bleise, Douglas Yauger. Fifth row: Tommy Cumella, Gene Delany, Gene Mosley, Johnny Bruce, Baxter Williams, Nathan Pavey.