Louisiana High School - Alamo Yearbook (Louisiana, MO)

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LOUISIANA HIGH SCHOOL 3321 W. GEORGIA, LOUISIANA, MO. Enrollment- 392 - Principal- DONALD E. GILTNER “Somewhere a whistle sounded. 'Here she comes someone yelled, and suddenly, there they stood; Rosalyn, Jimmy, and Amy, friendly, lean and sunburned, nodding and smiling. Suddenly I knew why I had come. It wasn't just to see the Carters, lovely and gracious though they were. It was because the President of the United States was there!! This was America and I was part of it! Amber waves of grain waving in the breeze ... pinnacle peak sunset. .. white church spires rising into the sky of a peaceful little town of friendly people. The man shaking hands was a symbol of the most powerful, most open, most accessible government that had ever been conceived to date. We were performing a celebration for a concept of government that had worked the miracle of America1 Bless the Delta Queen for bringing us Jimmy. His presence among us this day had renewed the image of a people who would strive through the ages, God willing, to maintain a government of the people, by the people and for the people . . On the first day of school, everyone was dismissed to go to the waterfront to witness the arrival of the President. He was on his way down the Mississippi aboard the Delta Queen, meeting the people. Band members waited at the landing along with city dignitaries and the color guard to pay honor to the chief executive. Although his schedule did not allow him to disembark, Louisanians will long remember the thrill of the occasion.