Central High School - Optimist Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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Pixie Dust, Glories Homecoming lends pixie dust as well as less tran- sient glories to school. The scholastic year has set- tled into its well-polished groove, a comfortable sort of thing. But it can't sparkle and it can't sound like a cheering crowd. School days have their pur- poses, but there are so many of them, some filled with disappointments, snappish people, and bore- dom. Such ordinary days are the substance of our lives, but they don,t deserve a royal court or a com- pany of warriors as Homecoming does. UPPER LEFT: Queen Gayle and subjects, Don DeBoer and John Evenson, surveying H.R.H.'s gifts, courtesy of Crookston stores. LEFT Scientihc stuff on a float. Throw in blueg out comes green. Bill Spearman, Jerry Hutchins, and John Kronholm did it! LOWER LEFT: It's earth girdlingg it's mirth curtlingg itls back breaking 1t,S track making. It's a fake pranceg it's the snake dance. BELOW: CofTee! Doughnuts! Pop! Peanuts! Barker Carl Lensgraf attracts customers to the Student Council booth. Waiter Ron Carpenter pours coffee, RAF helps himself, and Jim and Larry gape at the camera. MiTsT. T '-- ---v N....,,-

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Papa and Emily Converse Baseball, a favorite sport even in 1901, accounts while the stair-gnzers next' for this gathering on Main Street. door just gaze. BELOW, LEFT: Prof, Willard explains his archaeo- logical survey to some of the east. RIGHT: Entering the world of the dead. Emily bids goodbye to her for- mer life. BELOW, CENTER: Ht-re's a sure way to pour eoffee without spilling Z1 drop. This is breakfast at the Gibbs' house, and not n Crumb on the table. BE- LOW, RIGHT: Mrs. YVebb admonishes VVally for studying nt the table. -Q lbs' I ,lflli

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