Lamar High School - Orenda Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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A room that is rarely frequented by the boys is the cooking room on the third floor. Here the more domestic girls don their aprons, turn on the stoves, and fill the halls with aromas of their handiwork. Not all their time is spent here, how- ever, often the cooking classes have helped the home economics girls prepare teas and other entertainment. Pictured at the left is Mrs. Wil- son's fifth period class, which includes Nancy McAnelly, June McCarthy, June Ashen, and Jeanette Dyer. Speaking of filling the halls with aromas of their handiwork-the chemistry students on the first floor by the mere twist of a Bunsen burner can produce some of the most awful smells imaginable. With the fumes of hydrogen sulfide on their hands, and small pieces of red and blue litmus paper sticking out of their pockets the chemistry students are easily recognizable. ln the picture on the left Mr. Bailey prepares to test a bottle of hydrogen with a burning splint while his class stands braced for the explosion. One of the most beautiful and different rooms in the school is Miss Henderson's art class. Each Thursday the class' work is placed on the board without the artist's name, and in a semicircle the class judges each others work. In the picture Miss Henderson stands to the left discussing one of her student's creations. An English classroom can be one of the most interesting in the school. Miss Buchanan, who sponsors the school's creative writing club, is pictured at the left with her fifth period class. This class of seniors including Melvin Brochstein, Barbara Fitch, Jean Donaldson, Evelyn Brady, Bobby Grainger, and Rupert Johnson are listening intently while Bill Munnerlyn and Lenore Garrard play some records of Macbeth. These records from the library are part of an audio-visual edu- cation course which is one of the many modern teaching methods Lamar students are bene- fited by.

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MAA vom There are over fifty classrooms in Lamar, each one differs a little from the others. As a new sophomore enters one of these rooms for the first time, he is immediately impressed by many new features that Junior High lacked. He is fascinated by the clean, modern look of the Lamar class- rooms, and it won't take him long to discover the loud speaker system on the front wall, or the way three sets of windows may be opened by pushing out the lower one. However, the sophomore will soon take these first impressions for granted and begin to collect memories of a typical classroom scene. After he has graduated he will look back and remember the line that formed at the pencil sharpener one minute after the tardy bell sounded, the note that was being slipped carefully from one desk to another, his neighbor's aimless doodling on class notes, and finally the rustling of notebooks and lunch bags as the close of the period drew near. There are many classrooms in Lamar that don't fall in this category of typical. These are the special rooms such as those used for sewing, cooking, and typing classes, from these, students often collect their most vivid memories. A view of a typical classroom in the eyes nf n cfnrfnnf

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anaar-9 Claw Ufficel-A President DICK BINTLIFF Vice-president SHIRLEY LOCKWOOD Secretary MARY GEN E JOHNSON Treasurer MARTIN SCHEID Lawyer JOHN SHUDDE Poet V JULIA ORYNSKI Most Popular Girl MERLE STRIEKERT Most Popular Boy DICK BINTLIFF Most Representative Girl SHIRLEY ARMSTRONG Most Representative Boy JOEL CARROLL Senior Cabinet PHILIP BLATT, JOEL CARROLL, JIMMY LOGAN, EVERLYN MCMILLIAN, TRAVIS MILLER, MERLE STRIEKERT, DICK BINTLIFF SHIRLEY LOCKWOOD, MARTIN SCHEID, MARY GENE JOHNSON