Lancaster High School - Lancastrian Yearbook (Lancaster, NH)

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,. ,354-' LLL L I jan Jancaatrian A NEW SPIRIT FOR L. A It is a common belief that nothing in this world is so good but there may be found some means of improving it. It is with this idea in mind that we suggest an alteration of our school spirit-a constructive loyalty to our school which. if achieved by each of us, will give added vitality to Lancaster Academy. Just what is wrong with our present spirit? The whole thing wrong with our spirit is that it doesn't live in the heart of every student. and burns in many too feeble a Haine. Vfhat can be done? And who is to do it? NVhat is to be done is a problem for us, as it is in us this spirit must live. Our faculty may teach us-, guide us and help us, but they cannot make our spirit. The first part of our work is an added as- suming of responsibility by the student body. We have a student council given us as a means of student self-government, but it has under- taken no spectiic causes nor shown itself as a forceful body in a number of years. In com- mon language, it lacks the punch and vitality commonly associated with youth. Our faculty has done its part by giving us this council. Teachers also attempted to give added respon- sibility in another way which the students failed to accept. It was in the Spotlight, which was printed every week, and a Lancas- trian which came out several times a year. The faculty enjoyed helping students develop these projects, but the students failed to respond to an extent great enough, and several of the fac- ulty were obliged to do most of the work on both. This naturally could not continue year after year, so the paper was given up and the Lancastrian changed to a year book. From the preceeding paragraph we. the students, can draw but one conclusion-that we have notidone our part outside the classroom. Occasionally a student admits that our rivals seem to have better spirit and greater support by the student body. It is understandable al- though not justifiable that the student body should not support a losing team. But even when our school is represented in an activity in which it is successful, it often happens that only a minority support the activity. It may he that we are becoming interested in only lhose activities in which we ourselves partici- pate or that there are too many activities. Whatever the case, if we are to have a new school spirit, all must at least attend those functions in which our school is represented. Our third problem is to develop in our- selves greater pride in and respect for what our school is and stands for. Too often it happens that what we have is not appreciated until we have it no longer. Appreciating our advantages, of which we in Lancaster Acad- emy have many, will help in the development of a new and better school spirit. The best way to appreciate any advantage is to utilize it to the fullest extent. A When we have accepted responsibilities out- side of studies and present activities, given our support as a group in attending functions at which our school is represented, and devel- oped within ourselves greater pride in and appreciation for our school and its advant- ages, then will we have developed 'a real school spirit. This spirit will exert itself in many ways: on the football field, the bas- ketball tioor, the hockey rink, about the school and last of all in conduct while in the class- room. The funny part about this school spirit is that one or two can't maintain it. It is a thing which must live in almost every student, and when it does, the student body has made its greatest contribution to the school. Richard E. Wing. -5, fx 'Jig , Q1 Je jan ofanoaalrian