Lexington High School - Bearer Yearbook (Lexington, AL)

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 The Beginning of an Ending Times have been changing at Lexington High School. The auditorium was tom down along with the classrooms surrounding it. The auditorium was built in the early 1930’s. Its seating capacity was approx- imately 700. It was used for many activities including graduation, plays, assemblies, community meetings, programs, school P.T.O. meetings, class meetings, and movies. Lexington’s auditorium was the last one to be tom down in Lauderdale County. There are no immediate plans as to what will replace the auditorium, but an open cour- tyard will be where the auditorium once stood. Fire drills have always been required every month during the school year. However, on Wednesday October 9 a Fire drill was held on the school buses. Students left their 6th period classes ten minutes early to participate in the Fire drill. Students at L.H.S. returned to school to Find a newly paved parking lot surrounding the south and west ends of the new gym. Money for the students' parking lot was bor- rowed from the bank. The money is to be paid off by special fund raisers assisted by The Alumni Association, Band Boosters, Athletic Boosters, Pee Wee Association, City League Basketball and other club donations. The following paragraph was written by Don Burney as an English assignment in Mrs. Thigpen s class. I am the entrance to the main building of Lexington School, or at least what remains. Countless numbers of students passed through me on their First day of school. Those same students went out through me after their graduation and I welcomed them back anytime they wanted to visit. 10 Opening

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SHOWING off the latest fashion fad in rugby shin wear, the Coca-Cola shirts are worn by Robin Shelton, Leigh Ann Beavers, Karla Williams, and Leigh Thompson WEARING a mini-skin by Santa Cruz, Katina Weigan poses on one of the varsity cheerleaders' stands beside the football field. SHOWING plaids are the style, Lome Lash wears a dress sweater and skin. Jeremy Thigpen shows the suspendered look for boys of all ages. ALL DRESSED UP, Laura Stacey shows the classy look in a blue silk dress. Opening-Fashion 9

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 THE FRONT entrance an.i foundation are all that remain of the auditorium. AN UNOBSTRUCTED vie of the flag can be seen with the removal of the auditorium and surrounding classrooms. THE BEGINNING stages of tearing down the old high school occur. I was the entrance to an establishment of learning, but so much more awaited on the other side of my doors. It was a place where memories were stored. The memories were of the happiest days of a person's life or maybe some of the worst. The scenes of the past played continually within those walls and the sounds echoed through the building. All that was needed to relive old memories was to walk through the halls or peek into a classroom. The halls are gone now, as well as the classrooms. The building that stored the memories is gone. The memories are set free to wander back to the people responsible for them. It is those people who must store them now or pass them on to others. I stand here now, an entrance into£ nothing. Remember me. Soon, I wilf be gone.