John Adams High School - Album Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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STORY As you grew, your story grew. From the beginning ot your freshman year to the time you graduated, your in- terests had broadened. You did your best to promote worldwide under- standing among men by sending three ot your triends abroad-Naomi, Kent, tcominuedt I, Roquetort Root, clo solemnly swear to tell almost the whole truth and almost nothing but de truf. So help me, Amos Alonzo. The soci trial was deadlocked! At last came the star witness with devastating evidence. Yup, I seen dis yere Jerry Badger, he went in behind Ruby Red's Tavern where I was sleepin' on a pile of leaves. He had time to set de arson! The Adams Story isn't all laughs, most of it's iust hard work. We come to school for a reason, with a responsibility to ourselves and the people who put us here, to learn and to prepare tor adult competence. Here at the leadership banquet sit the people who guide our school activities, discussing how to become better leaders, and through that eFfort to make our school a better place. Happy Birthday, dear Mr. Seeley, Happy Birthday to you, sang the World History class as it presented a tlutty cake with delicious icing to the handsome World History teacher at Adams, Mr. Seeley.

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X sms F s ,..,QQN, sw ii. The story of our football season would be incomplete without our drum maiorettes who, stepping high, lead the band, the students and the team to their best season. After long hours of rehearsing formations in the sun, rain and cold, it's a happy interlude to pose for a camera in the sheltered warmth of the Little Theater. The senior class political campaign left its mark deep in Adams, from the ground-in cookie crumbs from Ann Bruner's Vote For A Good Cookie slogan, to the dizzily strewn chairs and floors worn by hundreds of marching feet. People usually think of plays as being mostly acting but, as the kids who worked backstage for Romancers learned, it's mostly muscles. Here venerable old Samson Dincolo, makeup still on, sets up a pillar for the next act. 4 g, Z 7, ADAMS things are also part of your story be- cause you lived it that way. The story you wrote was an adventure story, of being caught up in the tide of clubs, athletics and social life, a love story, the mingled emotions of going steadyp anal the story of a quest, to under: stand your place in the world. Soci just wouldn't be Soci without the trip. After a long, hard day tramping around Chicago everyone's dead tired, tired enough to laugh hilariously at nothing and to play baseball with a fountain pen. 1 was

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' Make a point, make a point and another point, yell the cheer- leaders. Make a point, make a point and another point, echo the students. And the Adams tive sinks another against Central, our traditional rival. The Coronation of a Queen at the Adams-Riley game. Excite- ment rides at fever pitch and a muFFled roar rises 'from the crowd as Kent Keller takes the crown, walks toward the court of candidates and places it upon the head of Pat Bourdon, the ADAMS and Bill, by raising money to bring an exchange student to Adams, and by aiding two Korean orphans. Yes, perhaps you were outgrowing the walls of Adams, the limits of this year, the covers of your Adams Story. And so, as you came, you go away to write your own individual stories, Adams Queen. The senior cabinet, led by Don Smith as class president, may be found most Wednesday afternoons in Mrs. McClure's room effi- ciently carrying through tund raising drives and busily planning senior class activities such as the Prom and the Picnic. f ' l . In the female version-of the sectional basketball tourney, the Adams Eaglettes edge ahead of the St. Joe Squaws as Judy Cobb sinks another basket to raise the Adams lead to 98-0.