Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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X X M I f X A, - 1 f 'gift K ,f x VR i 15,11 L it P411 Q ' W Y i s aim iz X X vi 1 c I ,K ' fi Xp. G , W NN X JA pfi'-SCIIOOI lUI1iv0I'CIlC'C RdngClCf IIC VVCICOIIICS Xrxlcfldfln BCIQC bI!ivO!'C HH HSSCIllbiy is sc mo d'y txegins hciorc 8:00 a. 111 'zouncf ffis cfoc ivieasurement of time is a most important. yet tedious and iimiting part of Harold C. Mardis, life. Time enters the scene for a more important roie than that of mereiy ordering his hours of rising and going to hed. Time maices itseit evident in aii his activities-limiting and demanding. Before 8:00 a. m. each day Lincoin high's principal arrives inconspicuousiy. in a moment he is in his office, iiteraiiy piunging into eariy morning misceiiany. Pre-school conferences crowding in, sound system announcements to edit, and then perhaps it's time to preside over an assemhiy, or initiate sophomores into the mysteries of requirements, grades, and extra- curricuiar activities at one of their Weeidy convocations. Thus hegins a characteristic day for ivir. iviardis. Vvhat is the position of a principal? VVhat duties is he expected to perform in any school day? These are questions easier to asic than to answer, for his working hours invoive decisions demanding the executive, psychologist, and educator. His woric is much more than mereiy presiding at a shiny desk in a iarge room piastered with hooics, certificates, and pictures. Groups-with-an-ideau demand appointments, the maiis hring a wide variety of time consum- ing questionnaires from inquisitive sources, and prospective empioyers write for graduates, schooi records. Nor are community groups con- tent with his mere attendance at their gath- erings-he must serve as a speaker, otiicer, and committee memher. Everyday, iittie heard ot

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tance IQI5 at fgia acfcffcamn The two ciecacies ami a iiaif do not weigh on our inuiiciing. Xviiy iiie cioesnit even iuegin to ioegin untii tilirtyi L. H. S. is imareiy oi voting age, not Hoid L. H. ivy a iong, iong. si1ot. indeed. tile piace iias improveci, grown ami meiioweci, iet us say. Tiie auto meciwanirs, printing, eiectrir, ami woodwork silops and ciassroom iafiiities in the addition imring opporf tunities never cireameci oi by tile originai occu- pants of tile imuiiciing. XN7il6I1 nationai defense neecis caiieci on Lin- coin iligil tile ivuiiding was aimie to responci. Now iormeriy unused ivasement spaces iiave ioeen turneci into fiassrooms for vvoricers wiio wisil to iurusil up on a nalionai defense tracie, and after reguiar sciiooi ilours time program moves upstairs to time simops. Ever aciapiant to new eciucationai cieveiop- ments, tile SCi'l00i refentiy instaiieci lilC sound system, anci now raciio programs, announcef ments, and student ciramas are pipeci into time classroom. A score or more of graduating groups iiave ieit tiiese doors, cioors opening stiii to more oi young Lincoin, doors that iiave seen the un- imowing iaeeome eciucateci anci laice tiieir piaces in tile eternai sfileme. How cilangeci from the oici earnivai times, and iiow weii cilangecii Bulge! 9 Pnui Sriiupimril iwrourirasts tile morning announremenis Simps twring unriroanleri ni' oppurtuniiic' Biacii and wilitc in tile sluciio

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3 : p , If K, 'F lk , zffw . ' L lemoon consultation will: Bliss eller on slullenl reconls ffl cllflwufia worlc surlm as tllis calls lor lime. lime wliirll ollen overslmclows purely aclminislratiye clulies aluoul SK'll00l. Tile clrama roafln enters luis private ollice witlm a play sfripl. telling' Nlr. Wlarclis lllal a casl lmas lmeen assemlmlecl. scenery macle. ancl luis presence is clesirecl al a Llress rr-llearsal. Familiar lo all l.inc'oln lliglm fll'illllilllSlS. llis lcnee-slilling smile llas given llial extra pusll lo many an uncertain actor. Dropping in on llle sllops. lle lallis almoul scenery anti suggests improvements, Cllill'1QCS ancl special elleels lllal aucliences llave seen ancl lalliecl almoul, nol linowing llleir surprising ill,llllOl'. Nor is lie lnut a uwllite-collar suggeslerii. lor as an amateur merllanie ancl artist, lie will worlc out an iclea in leisure lime at liome to oller line play rom- millees. hlwice a monlli alter class lime linrls lnim eomlufling lf'il1'll0l'S- meetings. Hlafully lorumsu wllere lie interprets scliool policy to meet cur- rent prolmlems, ancl passes on icleas lle llas gleanecl lrom reacting, superinlenclenlls eonlerA cures, ami eclufalional conventions. But no matter llow lull llis clay, sluclents' personal interests, prolvlems. ancl worli may lmave a part in luis SK'll?ClLllC. Holnlmyisl, omniyorous reacler. arlisl. latlier. all ol lime loregoing malce il clear wily H. C. lxlarflis llas not merely llle respect. lvul also lime lrienclslmip ol llmose wlio lqnow lrim. ,l4llCl'C can ine no sufcesslul organization willloul an ellectivc leader. if '---Y fix ' 1 Tull N fs. 8 ,QR it my .asia ff' AX E Nz -, xx to if l lv ' A ' vi kr , ,Qawl X X it f-. i ,I niqigi m 5 , it X ww ggi- so ' s' lit 12' 'SA Ui N, Q A ,fy NNR ff , 4' WB. 5 X ,47 X N ff' 1 N X , x J in x z I r lwlliing nw-r slnflr-nl prolmlr-ms will: Fir, llarliman anrlc stage, at an early evening relic-arsal