Lanphier High School - Lan Hi Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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for help have been ignored. lt's hard to jsupport a school that won't support you. I But don't give in. Don't accept things for what they are. If you want to remember lyour high school years, then start now and do something about it. There's a time and place for everything. It's time to restore Lanphier to the high school it once was . . . NOW!-K.B. ffxvc ciaowino The Area Vocational Center was a great opportunity for young men and women to learn trades that would help them after graduation. AVC was set up for the schools of Springfield and the surrounding towns to use. A bus system was supplied so that it lwould be convenient for students without cars to attend. As a student at the Area Vo- cational Center, I am proud to say that the Auto Body Shop had an adequate supply of tools and materials. Classes at the Center started at seven fifty-five a.m. and were dismissed at ten twenty a.m. The hard working students at AVC had a fifteen minute break. The break area had several soda machines at which the price was twenty-five cents. There were several Tom's machines at which the price was fifteen cents. The attendance system was like ours at Lanphier. The teachers were friendly as were the principal and as- sistant principals. This year the Area Voca- tional Center had something new. They produced a yearbook. As you can see, the AVC has come a long way.-B.D. LET GIRLS IN? I listened closely to all that went on this year concerning Lanphier's Key Club with much disgust and resentment. I strongly objected to the way the female students at LHS were treated and see no reason why we were turned down membership. I do want everyone to know, however, that Key Club itself was not to blame. True, a few very crude remarks were made by Mr. Will- hoit, the club's advisor, but the decision to turn down girls for membership was made by the Kiwanis Club of Springfield, which sponsors Key Club, notl by the Key Club it- self. I happen to think this Kiwanis or ani- zation was not only unfair and prejuciced but also very stupid injtheir reasoning. Al- lowing girls to join Key Club would not change it into a social or anization for girls, as Mr. I illhoit stated, gut it would only broaden Key Club intb a more involved and active group of both young men and women. Other schools allowed female stu- dents to join and have very successful organizations. l We did not wish to intrude and destroy this fine organization buy only be a part of it. Was this asking tod much? Would this honorable club turn down membership to students because they were black, brown, red or yellow in color?j No, that would not only be pnethical but would also be break- ing an Hnwritten law. Prejudice is wrong. lust as t jese people would not change their color, we are not going to change our sex. So what seems to be the problem? Kiwanis has .become a very unpopular group and you can easily understand why. As long as people are allowed to turn down others because of race, religion, or sex, something is definitely wrong. If a young woman meets all the qequirements to join Key Club, she should not be denied mem- bership simply because of one factor: she is female.-T.I. y A few young ladies lattacked this year's LHS Key Club: the only club in school with membership limited to males. These young ladies attempted to etl into the club by de- manding membersgip. They were well qualified, but Key Club is a division of Ki- wanis International whjch is also limited to males. The decision to accept or deny the girls mjmbership was up to them. The club suppo ed the girls when they went to a Ki- wanis meeting with alpetition. When the club voted for the support of the girls, however, the charter members were afraid to vote. Hardly any views were expressed until after the meeting when some of the mem- bprg w re saying how it would mess up the cu . After the females attended the Kiwanis meetin and it adjourned, the decision was final: a solutely no wdmen were to be al- lowed into the LHS Key Club. I personally agree with the decision be- cause there are enough female oriented clubs already. Why not preserve what little the men at Lanphier have? In conc usion, I su est that if these young ladies would Iii? an organization similar to Key Club, they shouldn't gripe at the members of the club. They could do something like start a Keyettes Club for l women. Maybe later you can bring up your fight against Kiwanis again, but this year you struck out.-C.F. PEP CLUB School spirit dead? Slowly but surely it was fading fast until a little spark revived it at a football game. , The school spirit grew 'and expanded thanks to Miss Cutsinger and Mr. Taylor, two individuals who became aware of a little excitement and captured it to form a new and revised Pep' Club. The club cheered in a small section of the bleachers and added to the excitement of the games. It showed the players that students did care and they were not knocking their brains out for nothing. It also made the cheerleaders proud to have students learn cheers and all along. Before, students did not cheer cause they didn't like the old cheers, they wanted something new and different so the cheerleaders started doing big mounts and sharp and snappy cheers. Then the fans considered them entertainers. The cheerleaders this year still did a few new cheers, but they tried to make them easy enough for the students to learn. I commend the cheerleaders for their ef- forts, but I especially congratulate the new Pep Club for their success in'rousing the school spirit at LHS.-RC. I VAN DALISM In most schools, vandalism was a small contribution to unnecessary expenses. In my opinion, Lanphier had a big problem concerning vandalism. In the first nine weeks of the school year Mr. Schmidt, the principal, called an assembly. He threat- ened to take away smoking areas. I thought that would have been great considering that smoking contributed to fifty percent of the tardies this year. Some of the vandalism that occurred was meaningless and costly. I also believe that most of this vandalism was brought onby a small group of students who could care less about education.-E.F. 7

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