Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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,ful 11. 5 'X F? E ff 'x .ME .ffvofsi on ffia 931091511 of ffzje Ufaai of Qozfy-one Memhers of the ciass of '41 wouid protest ioudiy at any story of their entering Lincoln high school as naive iittie elves. True, they did have some trouioie with iocicer comhinations. and finding home rooms in the odd corners of. the huiiding, hut they were on the whoie quite unimpressed by these expected triizies of high school life. After the fearful newness of breathing in these hallowed hails had heen hiown away, they hegan acting like hardened veterans. Elevator tickets and reserved seats in the cafeteria were oid jokes and schooi hecame the husiness at hand. They studied, some much, some a iittie. joined a ciuh, just one at iirst, and hegan to recognize other ciass mem- hers after a get-acquainted party. The Mimes assemhiy presentation of scenes from A Mid- summer Nighfs Dream made them realize the potentiaiities of their ciass, and their sopho- more year ended with forty-oners treading a cautious path hut nevertheless at home in their high schooi surroundings. As juniors they adopted a new easiness, and a seif-assured attitude. in the interciass dehate tournament Arthaud and Johnston out-argued the senior winners to make a junior team win the intramural championship. The Youngest was chosen for the junior piay of that year, and class memioers became actors for a night in a creditable performance. Olympics in the spring was a much sung junior victory over the surprised seniors. The juniors weren,t sur- Niiss Martin and Niiss ,ionos puzzle over a hit oi' ciass husiness i261

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mli am! we Twenty minutes alter eight any school clay lincls the students ol l.incoln high in home room. The more conscientious use this periocl to hrush up lor the last time on a physiology test or history report. The less inclustrious are just laorerl. Home room periocl is the only time ol clay when those who malie the school are engagecl neither in l.atin, shop. nor home eco- nomics, hut are simply playing their incon- spicuous roles as ujust stuclentsn. liy chrono- logical reclconing ancl creclit hours these stucly- ing or yawning persons are rliviclecl into three classes: seniors, worlclly wise juniors, ancl cau- tious sophomores. Seniors to the casual ohserver are no cliller- ent lrom the sophomores lmut annually class rivalry reappears, even il clothecl in out-floor merriment in olympics, ancl in stuclious palaver cluring the interclass clehate tournament. l.ate in spring comes olympics clay--glorious, sunny lusuallyl holiclay ol almanclon when l.. H. S. utalces the clay ollln lor a happily riotous time ol combat. picnic. anal general celelaration. Squirrel-tailed cars dripping stu- clents. streamers. and white-wash signs lcey- note the arclently youthful scene when classes Vie lor championship in mass athletics. But win or lose, all celelmrate the clay to the exhaus- tion ol their senses. l.ess gala ancl spectacular. hut equally repre- sentative. the interclass clelrate tournament attracts many stuclents interestecl in speech ancl argumentation. Alter competition within classes, the successlul pairs ol the three contests clehate to clecicle the victor. Vvinning names are then engravecl on the Downer-Stewart cup, callecl thus in honor ol its lirst winners. ln all other matters, stuclies, clulms, ancl inlormal groups, clistinction lmetween classes means little. lt is last lmeing lost in a new unity ol the school as a whole. All are, as home room periocl lwetrays them, just stlulents. CZOUTQI' I IOVVIITJ illtll Afllllll' Sl'lllllillI', l l ll C' lIlilIISlfl0I15. NVHNI Url- llUl'1'll0lll

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'ntl Q K c0l0' prised at all. The year ended with forty-oners well versed in the ways of a high school and quite ready to talce over as seniors. Their senior year was the routine husiness of lceeping school honors in the family. A fall performance, the senior play was The Goose Hangs High. Difficult enough to demand the iaest in senior talents. it won its audiences whole hearted approval. The husiness of amassing suiiicient credit hours, malcing plans for university or after-graduation johs, and competing for the regents scholarships con- sumed most ol' their last semester. in lVlay there was a last class party, graduation in June, and then their high school experience was over. Baslcets and huclcets of thanks are due those understanding sponsors of the class oi '41, lyliss Gertrude Jones and lxfliss lrene Nlar- tin. They are the good fairies who olcayed the ice cream lor the sophomore party. and painted class members' faces for olympics, and quietly encouraged nervous actors in the class plays. Forty-oners shall ever he indehted for their hehind-the-scenes-iniiuence that made class undertakings successful. As they were ahout to finish their three years in Lincoln high school some found time to stop and consider their stay. The school, its teachers, the marhle bordered halls, the Hood- lighted oval, the studies they had taken. the cluhs they had joined. the things they had done and dreamed, the friends they had made, all had iniiuenced them in some way great or small. All, had they he-en asked, would have admitted that though they later hecome min- isters, chemists, salesmen, or teachers, Lincoln high had made a lasting impression on them. i 2 the Dnwgariit loilnswn' l UQ 'S X V i X ant ,mm-rs Pxrthtm' V' I -.L x ww - UPFW - mf' uhm. taste in Yang in an Tiiizcmmr-s ,c - ., a be Olyiupics and N175 Pu iw- sooisstiiior Why his . V KXC ' ' M- CS pre Q - Cr un. hm, 1 rcgcnt, all, torty' Drawn in ti Q in ht., last kcgpcarians or Night s , Ohmm, turns uw., gmt A 1N1i1lS 'nmtmimm- Your Nt-tttn eyuxlixinvwm P i I SUP ' . 5-160' await 5 thc? . vit?- lcsuulng P I AUX' ,JA MM u gummy cu? wus to-10