Leesville High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Leesville, LA)

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 10 FRESHMEN The 1983 freshman class of Leesville High School has had a tremendous year. The class, which numbers 332 students, has been involved in numerous school activities, and they have been well represented in contests. At the beginning of the school year, class officers were elected. Those who were elected included the following: Dennis Mitchell, president; Beverly Goins, vice-president; Virginia Freshley, treasurer; Brenda Weaver, secretary; Lynde Holsomback, reporter; and Theresa Magee, sergeant-at-arms. Some of the freshmen won prestigious individual honors. Kim Dowden was named Vernon Parish Rodeo Queen. Theresa Magee was elected by the class to be the freshman maid at homecoming. Several students took the PSAT and SAT and they did very well on these tests. Of course, John Gass had the highest score in the freshman class, which was also the highest score in the entire school.

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NAMED TOP 73 On June 30, 1983, T. H. Bell, Secretary of Education, announced in Whitter, California the names of 152 public schools throughout the United States considered by the National Commission on Excellence in Education as “exemplary,” and “unusually effective in meeting the needs of their students.” Of the 152 schools selected, seventy- three were considered as “comprehensive public high schools. Leesville High School was among that select group. The announcement by Secretary Bell was preceeded by evaluations at the state and national levels, by a review of each school's accomplishments and by on-site visits by representatives of the Department of Education. The evaluations concerned everything from academic accomplishments to drop-out rates, from student government to interscholastic athletic competition, from scores on standardized tests to the “general atmosphere of the school. The on- site evaluation, by Dr. Antoine Garibaldi, examined the attitudes of students, parents and faculty, the