Limestone Community High School - Amulet Yearbook (Bartonville, IL)

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Building Tradition ... Foreword — Tradition is a word of many meanings. As high school students, we often believe that tradition is the perpetrator of homework, detentions, and P. E. suits. And tradition is indeed a factor in our customs. But tradition is far more than merely a repetition of the past: it offers us valuable lessons in our lives today and holds a promise of solidity for our collective future. At Limestone, past and present students, faculty members and administrations have created a tradition that belongs to us alone. Since Limestone is a relatively young school, our traditions are relatively young as well. Among the many traditions that we repeat year after year, homecoming is probably the one that has existed the longest. Even when the school was in its first years, students who were with the class that remained at Manual came to Limestone for a homecoming reunion with the members of the class who had been separated by the formation of the new school district. Since most of the people reading this book will see things only in terms of four years, some of the more recent activities will have more meaning. The Madrigal Dinner Performances celebrated their tenth anniversary this year with a special reunion dinner for ail of the singers who had taken part in past years. A newer tradition is the annual drive to monetarily support Easter Seals and the crippled children. Such things as Spirit Week. Miss Photogenic. TWIKP Week, and Prom, along with winning teams in athletics and academics, form the core of what we fondly refer to as our traditions. In keeping with tradition, the AMULET — itself a tradition — expresses through pictures and copy, some of the content of the school year that is repeated over and over again, year after year, as tradition. 2