Lamar High School - Orenda Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Big Red was adopted by Lamar in 1952 when cheerleaders CarlTon Wilde, Neal MasTerson, Connie and Carol Roberrs, and Celia Buchan inTroduced The eighT-TooT papier-mache redskin To The sTudenT body aT The annual Cheerleaders' Ball. ln his earlier years he was known To lose his head-IT was deTachable Tor convenience-buT his elaTion was undersTandable, for in 1953 The Lamar Redskins were STaTe Champs. The Jones Falcons kidnapped Big Red in 1961. Their audaciiy in cuTTing off Big Red's nose didn'T spiTe his face. ATTer a face-lifting session, Big Red is back in The Teepee looking forward To The 1962 season. e Little Red RoberT Kin- del reaches out hungrily for Thar scalp. A live rnascoT is new for The Redskinsp Big Red now has a cousin. Football Crowns H Queen Junior Margie Malleft has been named Homecoming Queen Glenn Graham receive The Traditional red roses from lasf years in The Pow Wow-sponsored penny voTe conTesT. She and escort queen, Toey Russell.

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Fashionable Fall Views C.S.U. members, Bill Wylie, Danny Foster, Sherry Sprad- ley, Julie Davis, Kit Werlein, Martha Robert, Brooke Tuck- er, Lyn Bracewell, Dana Crow- ley, Dorothy Knox Howe, Car- olyn Woody, Susan Byerly, Elaine Smith, Kathy Mitchell, and Madelyn Mancuso come to get their membership cards. 1 X .--w ' ig f ,ie WP' . ' , ..' I2 - Linz! L f , Q1 s-s.-as No! lt's not crowded. Marcelle McKelvy, Leon Kit Cobb, Mary Jane Richardson, Schiro, Kent Mathias, David Land, Doug Simmons, struggle for service at the drug 20 Life Five cents buys so many calories! Jan Raatz, Susan Grace, Mary Mize Howard, and Gordon Hebert squander their allowances on candy and ice cream. and Compton Webb store. ,I - A raf4Y'Z .1 1 After an hour of chasing tennis balls Susan Reese, Becky Sumners, Suzanne Symons, and Susan Light iog into the building at the call to Dress!

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Autumn Harvest of Award and 1 t x K Q 1 L f L No, not a meeting of the Latin Club, but the thirteen Roman Goddesses, Helma Rohrer, Carol Spaw, Virginia Arthur, Janet Mdlllahon, Nancy Earle, Mary Cushman, Sherry Rogers, Diane Griffis, Jennifer Wynn, Martha Jennings, Judy Edman, Sue Buschardt, and Pam Brooks, who began the Senior Ball Season with a Roman Romp in October. fi l i l . Memorial Hospital's hardwork- ing volunteer corps includes Candy Stripers Kay Mour- sund, Carol Case, Flo Crady, Marylan Bacon, Julie Barbisch, Janiel Wells, Jo Cook, Barbara Boyd, Wick Nalle, Nancy Neb- lett, and Janet McMahan. The Candy Stripers run errands vw. -'X he This meeting of the minds finds in attendance Lamar's seven- .1 teen National Merit Semifinalists: Katherine Kramer, Agnes Pearson, Maxine Graham, Mike Callaway, Karl Conrad, Louise Connally, Louis Dupree, Charles Klaveness, Don Jones, Buddy Buttrill, James Howard, John Bond, Lee Hogan, Maureen Mc- Intyre, Judy Arnold, Diana Demme, and Lyn Martin. Each March the National Merit Scholarship Corporation administers to juniors and low seniors a three hour, five part test de- signed to measure the student's ability to read and apply what he has learned. Scores give participants a profile of how well they have developed educational skills, they give the Corpora- tion a basis upon which to choose scholarship winners. 22 Life