Lamar High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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Contests set Homecoming excitement When the week of Homecoming finally arrived. the traditonal spirit chain contest kicked off the festivities. Homerooms donated money to the Student Council in return for strips of blue and gold paper. in hopes of winning the title of most spirited homeroom and the S25 prize Due to the delayed completion of the new wing, however. many classes had no place to hang their chains. The upstairs halls soon turned. from their regular panelled walls into butcher paper and tempera paint art works as sophomores. juniors and seniors busily tried to complete the hall decorations before the appointed judging time on Thursday morning. After having a difficult time deciding on a theme for their hall. the sophomores chose Sophomores have more. The juniors. instead of using the available space in the building. met at Linda Gallagher's house to cut. draw and paint The Battle of Cravens Held. The seniors. determined to capture a second win in the contest. created their own version of A Night at a Lamar Home- coming. Friday moming the streamer-hung gymnasium filled to the brim. as both students and exes arrived for the pep rally. Cheers and excitement mounted and then the entire gym fell silent - the time had come for the winners of the contest to be announced. For a moment the air was taut with suspense: then And the winners of the hall decorating are - the seniors! As the screams of triumph from the firstiSenior Class to win the contest died down. the second winner was read out: . . the win- ner of the spint chain contest is . . . Mr. Bells homeroom! Again the yells of elation rang out. Soon. though. the rally ended and the students. exes and faculty drifted out to the decorated halls to visit. reminisce. attend the exes' reception - and wait for the game. 16 l HOMECOMING 'Y 'ii Daretta Battershell takes the opportunity to reunite with fellow exes and Mrs. Tena Ward at the l Exes Reception. after Mr. Curlee's invitation that moming at the pep rally. l , l, lb tg l - an l l 1 l 1 l l l Senior Princess Cathy Lostetter waits for Mrs. Before the Richland game, cheerleader Terril Betty Johnston to arrive for rehearsal of the James tapes up spirit signs on the football field,g Homecoming activities that evening. with curlers in her hair. 1 - i 7 1 . 1 Senior girls show their spirit at the moming pep rally while the Band performs Bud . Later in the l pep rally football players left through spirit lines first introduced at the Arlington High pep rally. Q ' l l

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Q Coach Peach delivers his traditional pep talk at the pep rally before the Richland Rebel game. ' H f , J W: I f itll' We pill l on L Retuming to school ih time for the Homecoming pep rally, Tom Norcross sits with the rest of the football players again, after being absent for two weeks following a leg injury at the Arlington game. ' 'A Aaron Dowdy and fellow classmates help decorate their hall with a scene from The Battle of Cravens Field. Although the Juniors made a valiant effort to win. the decorating pnze was eventually given to the Seniors. . HDMEPOMINC 17 ' l ,f A ll A