Lakeland High School - Mirage Yearbook (LaGrange, IN)

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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+ .

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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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For four years, Lakers live, learn, and compete together on the inside of a school world away from the eyes of the community. For most LaGrange County residents and parents, ' Lakeland sits behind a hill over which few LaGrange-ites care to pass. Parents lacking time, afraid of embarassing their children, - or feeling mildly apathetic about education seldomly enter Lake- land walls, leaving their sons and daughters to run their own school lives. .W Although Lakeland is in a way a micro-cosm of LaGrange County morays and values Lakeland High truly does pos- sess its own identity, its own character, its own unique IN- SIDE world. This world, a mini- society deeply interested in the student's future and dedicated to working with and elevating the student, differs from the world outside its protective walls, an OUTSIDE world so busy paving the roads of pro- gress, it sometimes forgets to build sidewalks for those who would rather walk than ride. In the outside world with its many opportunities for success fledgling residents newly out of the school shell often battle social apathy more than the proverbial wolf at the door. Pre- paring for the flustration of this battle against a too-busy-for- me-world becomesa primary goal for Lakeland educators. fi X' tlr' W gg I .i ,y . g ' , 'A . .. y , ,fx ,QL ' Sffvrr 5 5, '+ me we ai ' K4 i' I A ii'. M , Y ' V' 334 , t 'f I3 as gf? - . t I 'ini g 23' f lg M-1 Q . v,,',,g Mgggf ' 7 AVVK 'qt ij ,I 4 :P 4-475 xx-Y LHS!