Lexington High School - Lexington Yearbook (Lexington, MA)

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REEMICHCES .. . ‘“What’s this?” says Debbie Terrio as the cameraman catches her unaware. Co-captain Doug Slade receives his Expectation of a win finds Barbara football award from Coach Janusas. Campbell with a serious expression. as other team members look on with approval. Students enjoy the fresh fall air as they wait for a bell to signal the return to the building. Just a trial drill, students enter the building and go back to their round table discussions.

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In between classes and during lunch time, the lavs become a congregating place to catch up on the latest gossip. The entire student body shares many common experiences during the course of the year. Students look forward to fire drills in the fall because of a break from classes and the chance to get a breath of the tangy autumn air. Sports awards assemblies recognize individual as well as group achievements. All of these and many more become part of the Lexington tradition, even though annual occurrences. sharing routine Anxious students file out of the building for a periodic fire drill.

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Brenda Bettencourt and Linda Wilson arrive early at school to put up posters before the pep rally for the big Turkey Day game with traditional rival Concord. Cheerleaders spell V-I-C-T-O-R-Y in two ways for a school. First, they shout themselves hoarse to inspire the student body to cheer, and, second, their presence at a game often is responsible for rallying the team on to the vital and decisive touchdown, basket, or goal. Especially before rival games school spirit mounts; hope, expectation, disappointment, and exaltation all become an integral part of our school life. Acting out a cheerleaders’ skit on the eve of the big game, “Paul Revere” and “William Dawes” ride on their tricycles to warn Concord to beware of Lexington’s mighty Minutemen. 22 Excitement mounts during the biggest pep rally of the year when the gym rocks with the shouts of “squash those Concord grapes!”