Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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' . ' K' Y .ysgbl Well! WOOWIJ Four classes at once were sometimes meeting in the auditorium. For nearly one semester there were not enough rooms to go around, and as soon as a teacher finished class in one room, Shed Pack 'lbflg and baggage, and Off to an- other room for the next class. Work in Unit E on the northeast cor- ner progressed more slowly, but not long after the second semester began, a new band room, a metal shop and two class rooms were ready for use. A larger locker and shower rooms was also in use about the middle of the year. Still under construction on the north end was the largest addition of all, a section of about twenty classrooms. gaoznezfin flte ..f4ua!iforium 5- J I? lflflmf 'UW jlw, .Sing ,4L.mf Wert? -5- Musically speaking, everything from Davy Crockett to N16 Tons was dis- cussed and Cussed, but when the Madri- gal Singers sang Rudolph, the Red- nosed Reindeer with gestures, everyone applauded.

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A year of confusion, Principal Barney Hays called it when school opened in the fall. And with nearly 800 students and teachers trying to find pas- sageways through the halls, it was rightly named. Someone said the halls reminded him of Kansas Avenue just before Christ- mas. More students meant more cats and that necessitated additional p a r k i n g space. A large area to the north of the building was worked down and topped with crushed rock for student and pub- lic parking facilities. .7lze llflngniadecl . . The library was just a figment of one's imagination during the same period, until the south addition was ready after the first of the year. Time spent without the library made every one realize its value, and students used the .magazine stacks, the newspaper files, the reference and fiction book sections like they were trying to make up for lost time. The community came in for its share of the benefits as the library was opened every Monday night from 7 to 9. -4. 340 Crowzlezl .ilafa Students werent the only ones run- ning from one end of the building to the other. Workrrien on their jobs- electricians with rubber-handled pliers and romax cord, plumbers with pipe wrenches and elbow joints, painters and plasterers with plenty of identification- used the halls before, during, between, and after classes the same as the stu- dents. The cafeteria work was not completed until after the Christmas vacation, and students and teachers carried lunches throughout the first four months. How grand it was to eat well-prepared hot meals at uncrowded tables! OW ,ML Call gill

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Even the Dodgers made the front pages. They won a world series and did it the hard way, After dropping the first two to the Yanks, they came hack to win the next three, the Yanks tied it up, but jackie Robinson and Company took the seventh game for the title. Deaths because of traffic accidents reached a new high during the Christmas holidays, and work on the Kansas turn- pike was being rushed. Early in the fall the New England states were lashed by heavy rains and floods, and at Christmas time the west coast got the same thing Here the main weather topic was the drouth and dust. .sguvlenfo gina! Wea! Cfatmroomo Rzgeve flue Congeofion Pailyfupilal WW STATET ' TJUURNAI. FordGivesAwayS500Million: princess Gives Up Tgwnsencl 4115 Institutions Share Grant Duty Before Storm Swells West Coast Floods Love voiced mm IN mrs nam AT E nf 'DPW J 0 U R N AL M ,K4-A Towns Evacuated byMdr9Gfef Ein California, 11 UilWf'll'T' . . . ana nm. Youth Admits Alr Sabotage CTW' 39225 niiialgzp . . - Cl l li l Dodgers Wm First Series Moth-Mndax I TL t. P am vnnsocnia.-asro mf SW' Olhm M n nnfxa len mg' . Y 'l'f M Near Longmont nu Lum ' mkwn - mmnuszwi In Cl '1l ' . y ' olamxe U Asks Plams QMSPERUNS Wlllllf REGlMt UUI t..,n... A i't' 15q.27::..31 Y' lt i' ' ii-i'i- fl Y lwvrlirtf r ,.-.. I .,.,.,,., irr..'l',.QQllfi.,,l.'f lulUn.PERll Sm Shows Gllf EUDYK5 Mau mx Part now' 4' . nvrrtrwnt , Ag Fmalldihon IKE SUFFERS HEART ATTACK EEK? 'T Holiday Deallllfoll Chieltxecutive Under I A Nears New Record B oXY9e Ten' .6. Students watched and waited as Peter Townsend wooed and lost Princess Margaret of England in a dramatic romance that made front page headlines throughout the world. Of a far more serious nature was President Eisenhowers heart attack and his struggle to regain sound health. Millions of words were written, telling of his attack September 24, and describ- ing in detail his climb to recovery. Interspersed with weather discussions were the talks aroused by annexation planning. So Highland Park High School was finally to become a part of the Topeka city schools? While the Ford Foundation was giving away 3500 million, the people of Virginia were deciding that they would use public tax funds for private education so the Negro could be kept segregated. The governor of Georgia would rather his state college football team not play in a bowl game against a team that used a Negro player, but the college students took a definite stand, hanged him several times from a sour apple tree, and the team played the game as scheduled.