Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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KAY TAKAKUWA Fall Editor By KAY TAKAKUWA Fall Editor At lastl One year of hard work is in your hands. But whether it be 1952 or 1962, you'll never tire of your 1952 Red and White. ln fifty years your children may giggle and say, What silly styles, but to you each page will recollect some memory of Lowell - the brisk wind swirling about in our Court during lunch, the blasting E-Rah and Ax Yell and the traditional Hymn at Kezar Stadium, the mad pushing and jabbing in our locker rooms, the quick two-minute conversations and the flying dash to the next classes, the choir, singing like angels in the dark halls before Christmas va- cation, the screeching and yelling of come on team! at our basketball games, and of course, dreary report card days. Yes, each page creates a recollection. To our Fall, 1951 staff members Bernie Gould four business managerl, Don Kahn tour sports edi- torl, Gary Friedman, Pat Adler, Sue Benjamin, Judy Bechtel, and Martha Krause, our book meant lots of work. Each new idea adopted meant more effort. We tried a new layout for our Senior pages, decided to take a group faculty picture and came up with the idea of pages for classes .Our only hope now is that you enjoy these ideas. We dedicate this 1952 Red and White to Mr. Libby, who passed away on September 3, 1951. He had been at Lowell over 25 years. Many students always will remember him: gray haired, short in stature and always joking. He is surely a pleasant memory from LowelI's his- tory. fag and game Sag BERNARD GOULD1 Spring Ed tor By BERNARD GOULD Spring Editor J-Day is here! When you open the journal, remember that the hopes of the 1952 Red 84 White staff are within those pages. We hope you like it. While it only takes you a minute or so to scan thru these 96 pages, each individual page meant hours of hard work to the staff, and dealings with the phototgrapher, the engraver, the printer and the binder. Financial details of the yearbook were han- dled by the best business manager the Red 84 White has ever had, according to Mr. Wurm. He was referring to Barry McCrea. lf you don't like the sports section, the one to blame is Gary Rippling Muscles Friedman, the Sports Editor. Carl Kress was responsible for nearly all the pictures of dances, rallies, sports, and the Hall of Fame, Always on time, Jerry Ladar, and an ex-Lowellite also furnished pictures. The art work, which we think is great, was done by our staff artists, Barry McCrea and Charlie Green. But the Red 84 White is not the work of the Fall and Spring editors alone. They could never accomplish the thousand and one details with- out a dependable staff. And our staff was just that-dependable. All of us on the staff are tired of looking at the pages of your journal-we've poured over each one hundreds of times-but, we hope you'll get some of the sparkle we've tried to incorporate within these pages. lf you like the 1952 Red 84 White tell the staff, if you don't like it tell me. L3MfCKe+'s ' I , 5? at 3 be-. J . , ' 1 , j 'j al R ,I X H lv lr Jig Q ' Loweuy 5 . lj l l ov sgfbtlx Q, nj -V .1 yi '-1 V: lulllnll Illllllllll c 1 ' lezzill ss any ATL? 40, 4 f i 2 ll ,514 F bfi' . .. F l - F 4 Fife. if .1 xx' l, LZ 'h j , 'J Q M' is r:r':llfq'l'Ei-l:If ff A 95 if ' R i

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Born - July 7, 1885 Died - September 2, 1951 5. . Every Lowellite was deeply grieved by the death of Mr. Barnum B. Libby, one of our best-liked teachers, who passed away September 2, l95l. Graduating from Princeton University with highest honors, he completed his graduate work at Harvard. He belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and Teachers' Central Council. As a teacher of mathematics, he came to Lowell from Poly in l923. Mr. Libby's qualities as a teacher and friend were innumerable. He took care of our lockers, all l6OO of them. He was always willing to help us when our locks became stuck or we lost our books and mirrors. He was sincerely interested in his fellow man and was never too busy to help someone else. lt is to the memory of Mr. Barnum B. Libby, teacher of many and friend of all, that we dedicate the l952 Red and White,