Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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Autumn Foliage Transforms School The wind, blcnving through the trees, Takes with it sad corpses of summer While bright leaves bravely wave Gaily-colored banners of death. When the sky, leaden and ominous, Overlooks a gray, pounding ocean, Left-over summer gales sweep up ivaves Soon to be iced by winter ' s cold. The ritual of our return to school Brings with it vague memories of past years: Familiar smells of chalk, wood, wisps of perfume, While we greet newly waxed floors and smiles on faces of old friends. The familiar weight of books Vocies of teachers and students Cutting through fogs of summer reminiscences All are so familiar and yet so strange. These feelings die slowly as the leaves die And fall softly to the ground, And, like the leaves, they leave a path To follow through the ivork of the year. Like the leaves, we too shall drift away, Some to return, some to stay away, But all carrying with us The brightly-colored banners of knowledge and memory. FALL. .

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Crisp Air Sets Year ' s Pace FALL The school year begins clad in the brilliant orange and red of autumn. Fall is an awakening , a time of preparation and anticipation. It is a walk to school through crisp morning air; a familiar face, flushed with lingering tan and new maturity; a pep rally in the friendly excitement of a dewy evening ; the afternoon sun slanting across a chalk-lined football field. The athletic teams aivake and prepare. Legs ache and blisters form as cobwebs woven by the lethargic summer are slowly exterminated. The cross-country team begins the interminable jogging which will serve so well in grueling meets ahead. Football players hit and grumble, working toward the explosive precision that will make them a giant and feared machine. Calisthenics and fast scrimmages force complaining legs to harden, as the soccer team prepares to tackle its rugged schedule. Precision is sought elsewhere as school spirit awakens. Cheerleaders review and improve their nearly forgotten cries to arms. The pep squad strives to recover its perfection. Again the band dons colorful uniforms, and the afternoon is broken by sounds of drum and brass. Clubs, planning to attain new heights, organize and begin to f unction. Once more the presses roll as the journalism class resumes publication of the STUDENT INTELLIGENCIER. A neiv regime becomes established as the Student Council proposes and debates programs and campaigns. To the faculty and administration falls the burden of annual confusion: misprinted schedules, transfers, and dissatisfied students. To the freshmen, fall is an awakening of impact and magnitude. The vast panorama of high school life opens and presents to them promise of mental, physical and emotional maturity, and the attainment of their dreams and goals. They must adapt to the throb of high school’s pulse and embark on the seemingly endless journey to graduation. Adjusted and secure, the sophomores roll into their second year of high school eagerly awaiting increased opportunities in activities and athletics. To the boys, fall brings misery as Chivalry Week draws to its tortuous close. Maturity has arrived in earnest, and the juniors begin the latter half of their high school life ivith a new sense of prominence and responsibility. College becomes a reality, and courses become more specialized to insure a secure future. The hazy curtain of summer has risen, and the last act has begun. For the seniors there is a new awakening. College boards, interviews, and applications dictate futures and forerun the dawn of a new life. Vaguely aware of the nearing end, the seniors have entered confidently and begun a year that will end in sorrowful happiness. 5