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

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The juniors stepped into the winter spotlight with their play pro- duction, while members of the LIGHT and OAK staffs packed their grips for the N. S. P. A. convention in Des Moines and groups of Girl Reserves attended the convention in Kansas City. Pulses beat faster those days before Christmas. Sports lovers waxed enthusiastic over the opening basketball games, Lafay- ette's emotions were stirred by The Holy Grail and the singing of caro-ls. Mixed with these feelings were thoughts of shopping and vacation. Christmas was in the air. The drudgery qfor so it seemedj of studies after the holidays was hard. Almost before we were settled came the necessity of cram- ming for exams. At last they were over and passing and flunking spasms had subsided. Then we tried to settle down to the routine of a new semester. This routine stuff, though, isn't so bad, for there is always something to stave off monotony. The Student Senate dance, the crowning of the basketball queen, the election of sponsor-major, the junior high's Growing Pains, and more basket- ball games seasoned a steady diet of math, English, and history. Spring, summer, fall, and winter-no matter what the season, we know that Lafayette is capable of satisfying our youthful desire for knowledge and adventure. ff' ' A 1 .As Fl X we . xg . Q ..W,-. 'F ug .. -. -Ir.: ' WAFS? Page Four

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0 Every season of the year has its special types of curricular and extracurricular activities that have become as characteristic of that season as holly is of Christmas. Early spring ushered in the track meets as a close follow-up to the basketball season, and the senior class production became the temporary topic of conversation. Longer days and open windows gave even the most diligent students a touch of spring fever. The warmer weather brought forth lunch-hour strolls in the sunshine, sounds of the shouted R. O. T. C. commands in anticipation of the review, a muddy battle ground for FIELD DAY, plans for the prom, the hustle of juniors preparing for the banquet, and the spasmodic realization that exams were again at hand. All too soon vacation had come and gone. The new school year saw students wending their way toward school and the earnest beginning of new studies. Summer-interlude memories soon be- came hazy in the ascending smoke of picnic fires, and the faculty executed its annual initiation to welcome new teachers. Wiener roasts and hay rides on nights that had felt the first crispy touch of winter divided the attention of boys out for football practice. Then came the Fun Fest, the football days when we yelled Hold that line! and the more quiet season of Thanksgiving. Lafa ette the , Whole Year Through 1 I If ,nf WV ffiyrf r i if . Uf V 471,97 tiff. v l':Ap.:'4- 'l'l1l'm-l-

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