Lincoln High School - Bumblebee Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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f WE REMEMBER . . . LINCOL As we look back over the year 1956-1957 at Lincoln we can remember a multitude of realities that have left lasting impressions . . . our school building with its end- less maze of classrooms, halls . . . extending a full block along Lincoln Avenue . . . our teachers who supplied us with information, understandings . . . our life at school . . . the activities in which we engaged, both inand out of the classroom . . . and the friends wc made as we went about this business of absorbing those knowledges and learning the skills needed for contributing citizenship in our community . . . And speaking of communities, we can hardly remi- nisce over the school year without remembering many things about our town, Port Arthur. Its strategic loca- tion very near the famed Gulf of Mexico, in this south- ernmost part of the wide spaces of Texas, has enabled it to claim the distinction of being one of the largest re- fining centers in the world . . . and we agree, too, because most of our parents are employed in its refining indus- tries, either on land or at sea. Its boast of being a fisher- man's paradise is no fish story, eitherg fishing is an industry as well as a pleasure in our community . . . The population is over 63,000, not bad for a town that is only 58 years old . . . which brings our reminiscing back to our immediate vicinity . . . The population of our high school is approximately 900. Behind our main building is the gymnasium, the most attractive part of our school, with its indoor swim- ming pool, and, in back, the wood and metal shops, band room. The back campus accommodates the tennis courts, and the baseball and track practice fields, which are our playgrounds during the school hours . . . But to get on with our memories . . .

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WE REMEMBER... 0I'R TEACHERS How could we forget them? They were our counselors, foster parents, psychologists . . . patiently trying to bridge the gap between information and understanding . . stimulating us to study for the love of knowledge . . . teaching us . . . correcting us . . . sometimes work- ing long hours beyond the school day to plan, to search for more and better devices for the nurturing of our minds . . Some of us were surprised to know that our teachers are human, too . . . not just automatized cultivators of minds . . . They not only taught us how, but could themselves, laugh, sing, dance, play . . . and participate in our varied activities . . . which makes it more evident to all of us Lincoln family! . . . that there is nothing finer than our happy,