Lexington High School - Lexington Yearbook (Lexington, MA)

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Concord, Thanksgiving, 1965: with the combined spirits of ’65—’75, the holiday and the homecoming, the traditional clash was re-enacted. It was a perfect football day, but not quite perfect enough. . . For the ball-U-man crowd, it could’ve been tense. The build-up, as usual, was fantastic and the turning-point, as usual, Wakefield. The epitome of Greatness and Cool: Our Team at the Garden. competition at Concord: Our team to the Tech

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Mr. Adzigian and Mr. Thurlow shut themselves away from the nervous babble of the corridors, with coffee, cribbage, and relaxed conversation. They've been through it all before ‘and will live it again, four times a year, not counting National Merit tests, for years and years. They sympathize, with restraint. People mill in the halls, comparing notes on the blizzard outside, carefully avoiding test-centered conversations or predictions. Doors marked “writing sample only: Maher, M. through Potter, M.” The proctors read through a test, chuckling: “That ought to stump them!” A stumped victim enviously watches a strange intellectual writing furiously; fingers cramped and sweating, the intellectual beats the clock; the victim still stares. . . Two or three hours later, dazed and incredulous, people wander into the hall murmuring apologies to themselves, making mental corrections. Home now to forget, until the - scores return. college boards: ‘that ll 11