Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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|[ublmrk Jfiijh Scljnnl This building represents one of the most complete educational plants in West Texas. The original building was completed it. August, 1923, at a cost of $150,000; the annex was completed in January, 1925, at a cost of $100,000. The structure is fire-proof and was planned to give every room the maximum daylight-lighting. The building will accommodate 1,200 students. The Auditorium, seating 800, and having full stage equip- ment is on the second floor. The gymnasium is as large as the auditori- um, and is immediately below the auditorium. The science laboratories, as well as the manual arts department, are of the most modern equipment in Texas. That crowd of helpers, who were, no doubt, ir. .he esterner office when the photograph was made, cannot be seen at the window on the third floor, because they ducked” out of the way of the camera-man just as they would if a teacher had strayed into the office. They were known as skippers , but none of them ever had adequate attendances.

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- azi i THF WFSTFRNER '25 I I When in later years you pick up this record of events of one glorious year at L. H. S., the 1925 Westerner, if here you re- cognize the happenings of that year in their crystalized form, if some things recorded here make you wish for those old days again, and some things make ycu laugh because of their absurdi- ties; if, in short, we have suc- ceeded in making this a mem- ory book, we are satisfied—

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