Liberal High School - Mirage Yearbook (Liberal, KS)

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IHBHICH HHIJ STUHE HLHIH HIHTEH Oh ha1l to thee our Alma Mater' Oh may thy name and thy fame l1ve forever' Songs 1n thy pralse we'll Slng And 1n our hearts they'11 r1ng And ne er thy val1ant name shall we forget But always shall revere So here s to Llberal Hlgh' The school of our hopes Let your 1nsp1rat1on lead us Forever neath the red and the black So flght we ever nobly For thy honor and thy fame Thy name we w1l1 never blacken W1th d1sloyalty or shame But bear thy banners forever forward To the summxt of the peak Cl1mb ever onward Str1ve ever upward' V1ctory 1n trxumph or defeat' 5 I ' , , . . The school of our dreams. I

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IUE SEE UUH DHEHHIS This handsome blond brick building is a new slght on the school grounds of L H S Atpresent the modern fluorescent lighted structure houses the agriculture shop and manual training departments On the opposite page is a front and east view of the familiar old red brickschoolbuilding plus the new auditorium gyrnnasium addition This massive wing 15 designed witha huge stage and the usual basketball court it has a seating capacity of approximately two thousand five hundred to three thousand it also has a wealth of class rooms and storage space Do you remember several years ago when the bond issue was first presented to Liberal voters how members of the Journalism classes, backed by the students of L H S campaigned for it in editorials and news stories and how hopes were smashed when it was defeated? Again on April 5 1949 the bond issue for new school buildings was putbefore the voters Againacampaign was waged but we students were almost afraid to hope that it would be successful Everyone waited anx iously for the returns Then came the happy news that the bond issue had been passed' After that everyone was in suspense as beautiful drawings of the build ings to be were displayed When would construction start? How long would it take 'P Finally inthe middle of the school year 1n 1950 the clackety clack in of the machines breaking up the old cement tennis court to make way or the new building could be heard For a while everyone became wa tche r s , but the newness of the building process became a matter of course and thmgs went almost back to normal except for the occasional noise, made by the machinery The vocational-ag building was ready for use in Septem and, at last in the spring of 1 1 carne the long-awaited completion of the new wing ' - Pe r haps our feelings toward these buildings old and new, and the students and faculty they house, is best expressed in the L. H. S. school song: 4

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PUBLIIIHTIULIIS We the Mirage staff were elected by the Senior Class to publish the 1951 Mirage STANDING Freddy Garcxa Gene Yadon SEATED Sherro1Se1fr1dge Kathryn Marshall Marlene Duerr Jrmlacobs Gary Parks Delroy Mead We the Journal1st1c geniuses of L H S have made it possible for you to keep up on ac t1v1t1.es and happemngs Ln our Alma Mater For the f1rst t1me 1n L H S ' hxstor we have brought you newscasts over the commun1cat1ons system and K CB Liberal's radlo stat1on, 1ng the latest schoolnews Tlns programhas taken place of The Reds n the school paper formerlypubhshed but because of flnances disconturued tlus ear l?1add1t1on to the broadcasts the members of the ournalism class have put forth much time and effort on writing colurnns o copy for The South west Daily T1mes pubhshing many school events a.nd actxvztxes We hope that m the years to come journahsm students wlll be able to do as well and even better than we have serving as a news agency for Lib eral and for L H S Preparlng copy and Broadcastlng Ident1f1cat1ons Janet H111 Leo Parsons Charles Warden Karen Duerr Prlm Malin lla Immell Eddre Leamxng .m i 6 P I A 7 . Q Iv ' i 4. . Q . , I ' 9 1 I I n I I I I I ' ' . . .. . D . ' f ' ' . . - . - kfw- I ' . , . I I .0 n . 1 D tl . J . . . .. . . . . . ' ' ' s 1 D ' l I ' , . ,, f 1, I -M14 'll 1 , .V 5. . - X ' ' fills A. . p ' 1 -ly i - A I 6, ,- ,m F .- L, was f , :X r , W 04-