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

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Jacket players and room before the sti r hard fought victory on the State Fair Stadium gridiron, Jacket varsity leaves for thc school. Some song or cheer or tradition seemed to typify each sport and accompany it. ”Wc never stagger, we never falT’ was the familiar song and dance following each Jacket touchdown. This could have well been the motto during this season as the Jackets were undefeated, untied, district champions. With the beginning of basketball season the ’ Basket Jackets” with their agile feet played exciting and close games such as that with Woodlawn when the game depended on one point. On Saturday spectators came and went from the cinder oval, as track events were won and lost. The last boys to letter were those who computed their batting averages on the diamond. Betty Virginia Park is the home of our baseball and many of us spent enjoyable afternoons in the spring there. Jacket Gordon Gibson ties ball up with Cotton Valley cager in Byrd’s first game of their annual toumament. 12 It’s a World of Sports

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World of Work The Red Cross helped to promote good will with others by filling gift boxes to be sent overseas and making Christmas brighter for the less fortunate. Real study came around mid-term and final se- mester. We found ourselves making frequent trips to the Iibrary preparing for research papers. Then there was the dreaded cramming for exams. Once over, though, we were ready for another whirl in the wide world of Byrd. Mechanical drawing students, who perhaps will be future architects, draw plans for such things as houses and boats. Their aim is accuracy and neat- ness. Robert Ehrhardt sang the role of Grosvenor, a leading char acter. Thc choir practiced all through the year for special assemblies and programs such as that at Christmas. Their major production each year is an operetta which was Gilbert and Sullivan ' s Patience this year. The HIGH LIFE. which comes out once every three wecks, happencd to come on Go West Day this year. Susan Simpson, a staff member, brought a welcome interruption as she sold the ncwest issue. The staff worked all year to produce a paper with complete, interesting. and informative arti- cles, the result being a top rated newspaper. And of Work Well Done ii

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Joel Eaves and Craig Johnson, Yellow Jacket co-captains for the Wcst Monroc game anxiously await th flip of the com Like the homecoming court and basketball court, the track team had its own royalty which reigned over one of the big meets and presented the awards. This was the second year for this new tradition. Spring brought warmer days and the annual spring fever. Baseball games, golf meets and football spring training ended the season of sports. Songs, dances, and cheers faded away in the distance . . . football suits . . . helmets marked with scratches of yellow, red blue, and green paint from the rivals . . . tennis shoes and basketballs . . . track shoes yellow togs . . . golf clubs . . . baseballs . . . all were put away at the end to rest until another record was to be written in another world of sports. - - ;? l ‘ . p ' w Tommy Gregory hands the rel; ets go on to another cinder vict ck West as Jack- Jacket outficlder Billy McCullough strides hard to beat throw in an intra-city gamc with St. Johns. And Song and Cheers 13