Lamar High School - Orenda Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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The New Year Brings Nhlle everyone else hoped fOr SHOW, Cl16fleS K0llef1lUUfQ, Rosemary ice skating pond. January brought the coldest winter in twenty-eight VlcBride, Bob Muir, Jennifer Wynn, Jerry McGhee, Mary Gray McGee, years and the loss of water pressure necessitated a one-and-a-half day and John Cutler try to coax enough water from the hose to make an holiday and foiled the skating contingent's plans to make a pond. Signing up the lucky last-minute entries Jackie Henderson, John Roth, Robert Simpson, John Bush, Ronald Sumicek, and Elizabeth Parsons, popular Civics teacher Mr. Longcope and as- sistant Judy Jennings sigh with relief that the earlier crush ot people is past. 26 Life 2 1,-fi fa, Ned Ely, Judy Arnold, and Joan Baird took ad- vantage of District Attorney Frank Briscoe's of- fer to answer questions about the conduct of a mock trial in which he prosecuted a twenty- one year old student indicted for negligent homicide. Judge E. B. Duggan presided and, remembering that the purpose of the mock trial was to 'acquaint high school students with the Texas Judicial System, took several opportunities to explain the proceedings to the spectators and conducted a question-and answer period while the student jury arrived at the verdict. tina., , Y fi J'-t'f'G'

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. . and Play Reluctant to take even a minute out of their busy schedule, Sue Ragsdale, Doug Toole, Pat Shannon, Adrian Patton, Candy Ginther, Bill McDugaId, and Sallie Skelley warm by the fire after a bout with those skis. A vacation in the middle of winter? Leigh Flowers, Susie McGown, Gaile Bering, Nlarcelle McKelvy, Betsy Bowen, and Miki Lusk anticipate the wonder- ful three days of skiing at Hidden Valley, Colorado. This was the second year that this trip was of- fered to Lamar students. Chaperoned by Miss Hawk- ins, the Lawrence Skelleys, the W. H. McDugalds, and the J. Doug Tooles, the trip of forty-five left by train on December twenty-sixth, and promised to arrive home on New Year's Eve. . . . are about to be over. Cary Cravens, Lucille An- derson, Elizabeth Mendell, Anne Taylor, Brooke Tuck- er, Agnes Pearson, Louise Connally, and Carol Ham- ill line up for those last minute instructions from mothers, brothers, sisters, and-more apt to be heed- ed-dates. This was the first of the formal senior balls, even though it fell on a 'school night' the guests twisted with a ve- hemence. What a shame that, after four long en- ticing years, the big event is gone in as many short hours! 7 . -Q'

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a Trying E perience 2-Konsciencious to quit studying for their last final, Becky and Betty Barnett drown the sorrows of their morning Beeley, Anne Dabney, Claudia Turner, Mary Beth Diers, 'Final ina gooey 2-K's dessert. Mary Helen Kuhne as Fay in Wish You Were Here urges in a of the fall semester. Its banner, shouting Welcome to Kamp Karefree, Sfridenf voice that Everybody Love Everybody. The Harold Rome greeted the spring sophomores on the morning of the Mirabeau musical was presented by the Drama Department on the last weekend Orientation with a sincere welcome and a misleading misnomer. 27