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

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Splendid Are The Fields Makinjr ready to do battle again-t the Texarkana Hogs are Byrd’s football players as they warm up before the game at the Captain Shreve Stadium. Amidst orchids and azaleas Kent Cage, Willis McNeil, Paul Watson, Chan Teague, Kim Kay- ser, and Larry Larsen are gathered in a local florist shop to order corsages for the Home- coming game with Texarkana. 12

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Surrounded by ihe senior members of Byrd’s 1968-69 football team is the Homecoming Court. Front row: Tom Teasley, Cary Brownlee, Roy Burrou hs, Craig Floumoy, Mike Sumter, Dickie Grieder, and Mike Judlin. Second row: Roxie Cariere, Scotty Comegys, CinJy Haney, Diane Askew, and Richie Woo■ all. Third row: Ted Mitchell, Martin Yarborough, Mike Bowden, John O’ Hara, Bill Parker, Bill Morris, Jere Overdyke, and Towney Robinson. There Is A Place For Leading Cadet officer Jim Lenoir and instructor. Sergeant Bryant, display the R.O.T.C. flag bearing its new motto suggested by Mr. J. H. Duncan, “Keep On Keeping On. Jody D’Anna, Susie Shriver, Marvin Street, Richard Boyce, Margaret Prim, John Zimmerman. and Oliver Carroll presented the flag to Byrd’s principal, Mr. Duncan. Senoritas Frances Kayser and Leslie Watkins bring mcm- bers of the Los Vecinos Spanish Club a touch of the fiesta from south of the border with their typical Mexican costumcs and entertainment. The Centenary Collegc Cymnastic team prcscnted an cxhibition to the mass mecting of the Red Cross during Activity Period. Thc cntire audicnce was thrilled by thcir skill in tumbling and on thc parallel bars.

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Byrd’s track team haa long been a source of pride and glory. Long practice hours insure a successful year of athletics. There Is A Place For Competing Emily Lafitte, Ann Levy, and Ruth Cassard find a well stocked and organized lihrary an essential ingredient in the field of leaming. During halftime of a B team basketball game. Coach Gerald McLaurin directs, as well as inspires, his players to a greater second half effort. During a practice drill, Coach Gene Hammer, Byrd’s de fensive mentor, toughens and perfects these players in the technique of hlocking. The enchantment of past ages came alive for world history students RolH»rt Adams, Kathleen McBride, Martha Kurz, and Dorothy Stevens. A medieval castle of sugar cubes and a richly colored rice mosaic of a mighty Viking ship were painstakingly hand-made as individual projects. 13