Lincoln High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Manitowoc, WI)

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LASSES are the backbone of Lincoln High, the core around which the en- tire school revolves. Here, as you walk through the halls, you hear the low hum that choruses from each floor, broken at times by a Wave of laugh- ter as perhaps someone misquotes Chau- cer or sees his eye through the microscope. Then the shrill buzz of the bell brings bedlam and students tear out of rooms as if their very lives depended on the next three minutes. A boy races past, muttering amo, amas, amat, amamus . . and a girl UHZU , i . . and yet another group discussing the geometrical theorems in the very same World history students learn that history also needs breath with prOII1 dates. some knowledge of geography and map-reading. And they gather in knowledge and di- gest it, enabling them to go on to bigger and better things. Active Minds Former fears forgotten. sophomores girls discover that a biology dissection is interesting and informative. XX, 52 A little head-scratching enters the scene as some pupils wish Latin were 'really' dead. Q, -f-.gmp ,i 1' 6-Opening

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loined Together HE LITTLE everyday things, a thousand and one of them, insig- nificant in themselves, but together bringing a harmony, a union, And over all, looking down at things from the paintings on the three floors, is Lincoln himself ,seeing, in the bits and pieces of life that pass daily below, the qualities that made him great. Humor, ambition, loyalty, honesty and faith go into a student and remain with him throughout life, only to be repeated in his children and his childrens children. lt takes a while to realize that this invisible something is a part of you, of your life at Lincoln, Perhaps it may come some night as you drive past the school on your way to Late's and look at the soft lights outlining the tower against the sky or perhaps as from this same tower, come the mellow notes of i'Taps and you get an uncomfortable feeling in your throat as you think, lt's all over. But it isnt over, not really. Some- day in the distant future you will sit back and remember how you dec- orated Lincoln's picture with crepe paper on Red-White day and how you grumloled at having to learn the the Gettysburg address, and you'll feel good. Crowds cheered and shouted as they welcomed the Belles and Beaus from Arlington, Virginia. The annual College Day introduced juniors and seniors to various colleges and concepts of lile there X Tradition prevailed as the students took over the library grounds on Flambeau-signing night Opening

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How Do You Speak to an Angle? might well be an ex- cellent theme song for geome- try classes, but with expert guidance. pupils soon find the answer for themselves. Opening-7