Lakeland High School - Mirage Yearbook (LaGrange, IN)

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This is an age of competition. There is rivalry and even fighting between countries, within countries, and among races. People seem no longer to live for themselves, but only to beat others - to grow by crushing the spirit of a rival. There are no rules, no regulations, and -often there is no love. Lakeland too has rivals, yet our rivalry differs from the previous in that we know and live by sports- manship, rules, and friendship. We live with and learn from our compet- itors fsharing with them the loyal- ' ty, honor, and pride which develop from honest competition. ln all a deep respect and perhaps a form of love risingfrom the competition help us all climb away from the hostility of the worId's misdirected gladiators. ' At times competition seems a way of- life with Lakers, not only on the sports fields, but at every level of contact between students. The day starts with a race for a parking space followed by a challenge to ace an exam, to be first in the lunch line or to maneuver the handsome Competing Together

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Learning extendedfurther than books. Experience revealed much to students about living. Breaking away from the old ritual of lectur- ing' and note taking, experiments and actual participation accounted for a large .percentage of the class hour. Under the new ICE program, one-half of the day was devoted to on-the-job training, while the other half included classwork. Audio vi- sual aids and movies helped arouse student interest and deepen the om- niscience of subject matter. These became familiar sights as they were frequently used by instructors to present material. Boosting an awareness of people and helping to develop a concern for others. Lakeland prepares its students to learn from and live in harmony with people with differing beliefs. For LaGrange, , this ability has been dem t t d ons ra e successfully on the local and even the international level. Having gained insight into living, by receiving and storing in their brains experience and knowledge of life within their school, graduates were ready toencounter and con- quer the world and its problems. Twelve yea rs of schooling were over, yet much was left to be learned. The end was the beginning. While school was only a mock society in a small-scale world, it served as a microlaboratory for young minds to test themselves. Before entering the world, young adults were grad- ually seasoned and accustomed to what they had been sheltered from as children, an often uncaring, sel- fish populus.

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senior into asking for a date by 3:00 p.m. Competition ebbs and flows within school sports, clubs, acade- mics, social life, and even within the individual student himself. The more confident individuals find con- tentment in competing only with themselves, trying to better past goals and reach new heights of inner success. With the successes and failures of competition. Lakers come to real- ize a sense of being gradually build- ing into a continually changing view of self-identity. Abandoning a court in defection after defeat, slamming a speeding line drive past the short- -' stop, screaming number sixteen across the finish line, raising the daily math .grade to a C plus, or breaking the mile record at 4:38 all fuse to etch out the Laker char- acter. I The experimenting. the fun. the striving, the improvementiall blend to mold the competing teams at large and the individual competitors themselves. From it all comes the growing and the maturing. This is an age of competition, yet we have not been and need not be crushed by it. . Lakers found the school a proving ground for H helped build identities and confidence. 4 setting and then reaching goals. goals which W-wr-.www vmwm,x,,wmYc+ .