Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Time well spent Student Life generally refers to the time spent in the classroom. However, a student's activities expand beyond the hours he or she spends in school. This year Lincoln High offered a variety of activities for students to turn to in their spore time. Some students selected to go home, while others chose to stay at school and play football or help construct the set for the all school play. Weekends played a big port in Student Life. What are you doing this weekend, was a question almost all stu- dents heard or asked. The answers varied. A few students said, I'm gonna go to a great party. Others drowsily answered, I think I'll stay home and sleep, and many students replied, I have to work this weekend.' The majority of students had jobs, both full and port time. Fast food restaraunts. movie theatres, car washes, clothes stores, swimming p ools and skating rinks were just a few of the various businesses where LHS students earned their spore change. That money went for such necessary items as eraseable p ens, gasoline, clothes, dates and numerous other articles that parents don’t always hand out. Many students worked without poy. The spxrit organi- zations consisting of cheerleaders, pep club, flag corp , and drill team pot in long hours of hard work perfecting cheers, making locker signs, and choreographing rou- tines. This hard work was shown at the games and pep rallies. Sometimes the hard effort was rewarded with a team victory. Personal satisfaction can be the payment for students involved in journalism. The Advocate, The Links and Image were vehicles LHS students used to express them- selves in writing. Much time was spent, before and after school, interviewing p eople, writing stories and pasting up layouts. Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Steering Commit- tees allowed students to take part in their student govern- ment Each class elected officers and set goals for the year. The junior class was responsible for the p rom and the senior class chose their class gift These three groups provided a service for the school. The hardest job of all when you are a student, has the highest pay. Studying takes time and concentration. It also takes the willingness to learn. No one, including parents and teachers, can force a student to learn. However, if one selects to take the time and study for a test, the reward in the long run will make the time sp ent, all worth while. Student Life involves a variety of p eople and a variety of activities. Lincoln High offers an extensive curriculum of activities for students to become involved in. The city of Lincoln also op ens many experiences for students. Students are tomorrow's future; so open your eyes and seek, view and participate. Student Life-13

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Viewing various talents in the LHS auditorium helps lighten the monotonous schedule of some school days. The State Fair brightens the livelihood of Student Life.

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Clarence Larry and Darlene Berks boogie at Uncolnfest Come to know yourself Student Life deals with everyday living. It's composed of some success and some failure. It's the good times and the bad. It consists of things you planned and things that just happened. Goals for tomorrow or memories of yesterday all round up the scene of Student Life. Remember cruising O Street? Going to the Friday Night Horror picture? Eating at Mac's? Decorating the school that you rivaled with the most and getting deco- rated back? Yes, all a part of our school life. Cheers of victory or cries of defeat ring out with the events of Student Life. School spirit built or tom down; Life doesn't end with our failures and it doesn't stop the first time we succeed. Everyday adds new corners to our lives. We will get around a few of these corners and others we will have to detour—but all add to our lives. A student is someone trying to learn. Life is what he or she learns from. Every star, person or object adds something to our view of life. Student Life is just living. Views are sometimes bitter in life, blackened by bad experiences. There are also times we look with joy upon the things in life we experience. Many find life hard to cope with but few people ever fail to sur- vive. In many ways life is a game we play each day. Battling on a see-saw that takes our emotions up and down. Everyone must reach out to his or her world. In doing this we learn and come to know life. We grow with each day building our knowledge of the world. Learning to love or maybe to hate widens our view of what life is all about. We must challenge life. We must say yes and open ourselves up for experience. In the end of this battle we learn who we really are and what life has molded us to be. Life is an overall scale that we build weight upon with each day. If we feel we have succeeded our scale weighs heavy; if we have failed the scale is light and sway- ing, waiting for something in life to steady its motion and build its empty shell. Each man, woman, child or thing has its place in life. At times they must be an individual and other times they must work together. Every person is a piece to the puzzle called life. When we lose a piece we must find another to fill in the empty space or just keep building around it. A puzzle isn't considered complete without all the pieces. People are the pieces to life's puz- zle. Let's find our place and attach our- selves and help build the puzzle of life. Links show school spirit by decorating their cars. Student Life-14 Reach out to the world to know to grow to love to say yes to life to risk finding your real self'