Lexington High School - Lexington Yearbook (Lexington, MA)

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wa ee ee Sse Lexington High School , GRADUATION res Se Cary Memorial Hall WEDNESDAY, JUNE TENTH, NINETEEN FIFTY THREE AT EIGHT O'CLOCK ORDER OF EXERCISES PROGRAM AT THE— { PROCESSIONAL —“Pomp and Circumstance” . . . . . Elgar INVOCATION, Garis (in ee) fe reaial Ya Rey. Roy M. Pearson oy ege + Annual Exhibition ! SENIOR CHORUS —“O God, Our Help in Ages Past’ : English Hymn Tune, Arr. Katherine Davis “Brother James’ Air’... ... » Arr. Gordon Jacob -—or THE 5 “ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL” ; ‘ Background before 1854... . .. Charles A. Peirce, III LEXINGTON KIGH SCHOOL : Asa Graduate of 1871. 2 5. . 3 se Patricia A. Gibbs i g | As a Graduate of 19022 . ....... Eugenie C. Loupret i ' As a Graduate of 1925 ........ Deborah B. Smith H a a ‘ As a Graduate of 1958 . ....... John B, Allen, Jr. ‘ SENIOR CHORUS — “The Heavens are Telling” MONDAY FEB. 21st, 1859. i from “The Creation,” Haydn ! i AWARD OF PRIZES AND DIPLOMAS . . Mrs, George P. Morey ‘ Chairman of the School Committee { WS ZF t BENEDICTION) «= © « = fe = «sate Rev. Roy M, Pearson ' — —— i ES RECESSIONAL — “Festival March”, . . 2... Mendelssohn “673 Baie 7 CPI? a Lia “,, (GLP eS Pope After their Graduation Exercises the members of the ‘ (E class will receive their friends in front of the building. a% en Seo eeieke WAL ene 4 The audience will please remain at their seats until the Soo, = La et ache er es o-) class has left the hall. Copy of an early Lexington High School program, 1859 The 1953 Graduation program A NEW stHUUL The hundredth birthday of Lexington High School is being celebrated this year as the class of 1954 graduates. Though not entirely finished, according to final plans, the new high school building was opened in September 1954 for over seven hundred students. Students enjoying the modern architecture, large, well-lighted rooms, and excellent facilities have found this building to be a pleasant and progressive improvement over the building of the past. With greater facilities for teaching, Lexington students now find available a great variety of studies. The school offers college, business, and general courses, homemaking, and wood and metal shop work. Students who enjoy art and music join art classes, choruses, and glee clubs. They plan and organize movies and speakers, as well as student panels and discussion groups, as 9 regular part of the curriculum. Almost the entire interior of the first classroom of Lexington High School, 1880 Foundation for a new era, 1952 [12]

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The new Senior High School on Muzzey Street, opened to over seven hundred students on September 10, 1953. 154 Although studies consumed a major part of school time, the students enjoyed some ex- tra-curricular activities which still exist today. ‘The Scholars’ Offering’, the weekly school newspaper, contained editorials, contributions from many students, and original art work by a talented class member. In May of 1855, for some long forgotten reason, the entire stu- dent body rose in rebellion. The student’s belief in their cause resulted in the recess of classes for a week. The manifest determination of Lexington High's first class has continued through one hundred years of the school’s growth and improvement. In the main room of the first High School. A typical classroom in the new building.

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The Second Lexington High School building, first The remodeled building, as it has been since 1925. used in 1902. A NEW CENTURY Extra-curricular activities constitute a large part of school life. Students, under faculty supervision, organize and run many clubs and sports activities in which individual talents and interests develop. Especially new is the great interest in intramural sports. Junior and senior class proms are yearly events at L. H. S., as are the Operetta and the Senior Play. “Spotlight’’, a descendant of ‘’The Scholars’ Offering’, presents current school news items and gossip, as well as art work and photography. The yearbook which this year has in- creased its span from forty-nine to ninety-six pages to include all four classes, records the faculty, organizations, sports events, and individual senior writeups. In a year in which game attendance and school spirit reached a new high, Lexington’s basketball team claimed the Middlesex League crown with an undefeated season. Also in the undefeated class was the girls’ field hockey squad. Extras in sports entertainment were the enthusiastic pep rallies and the alumni and faculty basketball games. Since 1854, one hundred years of progress have been counted. Lexington High School now has entered not only a new building but also a new century which promises greater progress and achievement than ever before. The early west recitation room, 1890. Our modern home economics classroom, 1954.