Lafayette High School - Oak Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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L' and Honor , Thank to Ilonor MAY 20, 1937. I With an air of drowsiness, the students roused to the call of the assembly bell on a warm spring morning last year. Now there are several cures for spring fever, and on this morning the teachers were springing one. It was Insignia Day, which meant the distri- bution of athletic letters, R. O. T. C. commissions, Quill and Scroll awards, and gold and silver L's. Coach Campbell was the first to break the spell by giving all the athletes a chance to show their faces and letters to the wakening audience. Girl athletes also were presented letters by Miss Willetta Todd, their sponsor. Mr. Charles Thomas concluded the athletic awards by giving the cheer leaders their letters. By now each student was wide awake, waiting to hear his name. Gold and silver L's were next. Those who were not in the R. O. T. C. relaxed as commissions were presented to the officers and the rifle team members received their awards. Captain Brisack pre- sented these and the sponsor-major's commission. Literary pub- licity was recognized as Quill and Scroll members were presented. The letters, pins, commissions, and athletic trophies duly given, the assembly ended. But what had happened to the spring fever? The warm, lazy feeling had disappeared, and in its place was an- other warm feeling-that of contentment and of hard-earned glory. D Page Eighteen

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nge Seventeen I Straining Muscles should be the title of the study in energy on the opposite page. Dutch Thompson is the only Lafayette runner you can see at a glance, but if you look closely, you i-an see Bill Taft. This was the start of the mile run. O Louie Simpson, a Shamrock dash man. had to stretch his legs in the 100-yard dash to get a third place and two points for Lafayette. Q Coach Campbell was giving Roy Miller and Jesse Hughes the low-down on a certain race, but they didn't seem to mind, if Roy's grin means any- thing, Roy is the only returning letterman this year. Q The photographer at the Benton meet caught a picture of speeding Eddie Slaybaugh in his record-break- ing hurdle race. Eddie had just knocked over a hurdle, but that didn't stop him from setting a new 14,9 set-ond mark. I Again the photographer caught Eddie breaking a record, this time in the discus event. Eddie sailed the metal disk 120 feet. Q This time it was the 220, and Louie came through with a win to beat the city's fastest men. MAY 15, 1937

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1- Nino-I.-Q-n Textbook in The Morningg liek io the Afternoon Q Frmn Wt-lost:-r's to l,:tt'nyotte's litt-vary at-liievt-nmnt in in tiny! NVh:xt at spun! A gliinpsv ot' thv liln'au'y in the morning shows twu studious sophs t-xploring thu- :lit-tiunnry while tht- hnok-tentlers wuit on otht-r rustomers. I But into-r in tht- day thnst- stnntiing in line nt the vnfete-l'i:t waiting to ln- served tht- M137 Unk, hut off the press, while :away the-ir time with the Light. For the Journztlisni 1-lztss tHugh ltolrertson. tu he spuvificj had con- t-4-ivvd the idea of tlvlelying' the final issue that it might. coma- as at svnior volition on the sztnw they the Unks were tlistrilvutvd. Q iolvcl-yulle knows the- nrnlvr ot' tlw tiny when tht- Kinks vunw out, Some lllllt' during tht- niurning' n truck drives up. In-live-ry nwn :nuke I1-peutm-rl trips to the- vivv-print-ip:tl's ot't'it-e wlivrv thvy statvk pzu'kng't- upon puvk- ugv. The hooks nrt- g'1i:ti'mlt-tl :tgninsl the inquisitive throng.: until tht- fifth pt-riod, wht-n Mr. Murphy, prt-siding' in the t'uI't-tt-l'i:n, se-nds lllt'S8i'lll.fl'l'S froln rnuni tu room. 'l'lne rvnxnintlvr of the tltty is un Lll1l0K'l'ktlJll orgy. Q The lights still lvurneml in the lower hull after 5 o't'lot-k ns stumltents lingered lo pass zirountl hooks :intl fountain pens. Hut this wus the IIIQVU beginning of 21 fad that invzulvtl vlnssruoms, where tent-liers and students alike took time out to write in annuals. MAY 20, 1937.