Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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To the students and faculty, Yearbooks mirror the life of the school and its community and perpetuate the memories of the years spent in school -the golden years of Iife. Early last spring when we began planning the 1952 Westerner, we ran across this purpose of a yearbook. As we read it, the thought ofa perfect theme to bind the pages of our book into a harmonious unity came to us. What theme could be better than one depicting the golden days of L.H.S., showing why and how we love it and why Once a Westerner, always a Westerner is true? The staff set out to make each page of your 7952 Westerner relive for you not only the carefree, happy times you have enjoyed, but also the more sober times when there was more work than play. To capture the enthusiasm of vibrant youth sharing in the everyday job of living as if it were a grand adventure, we endeavored to mirror every activity, every experience dear to your heart. As you turn each page, recall the tense hush that fell over the crowd that crisp wintry day as you waited breathlessly for the football to sail over the goalpost for that all-important extra point, remember the less glamorous times when you held your breath as a grade was placed on your report card. To all Westerners Lubbock Senior High School means a place where they are taught how to think, not what to think, a democratic school where students are encouraged to use their own initiative, a school where tradition, friendliness, and high Christian ideals combine to broaden the meaning of education. We hope that through the pages of the 7952 Westerner we have captured this intangible, never-dying feeling for you. To each of you who have made the compilation of this volume a pleasant task, our sincere and humblest thanks. We are also grateful to Reeves, our commercial photographer, and to The Steck Company of Austin, our publishers, who have helped us every inch of the way, and to Mr. Paul E. Gilliam for use of the metal lathe picture used in the faculty section. Since we have endeavored to make every picture tell your story, we offer special thanks to our photographer Rex Vermillion, who has taken approximately l,200 pictures this year. The co-editors, ff70?fM'

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aide of Melanie Our School . . . why we love it,' why it's Once a Westerner, Always a Westerner. Dedicated to . . . the leaders, past and present, who have helped to make our school one of warm friendliness, social enrichment, and high scholastic standing. Our Favorites . . . From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, the place is dignified by the doer's deed. - Shakespeare Our Activities . . . TrifIes make perfection, but perfection itself is no trifIe. - Michael Angelo Our Classes . . . 'Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. - Pope Seniors . . . l find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. -Goethe Juniors . . . I will study and get ready, and perhaps my - chance will come. -Lincoln Sophomores . . . The largest room in the world is the room for improvement. - Unknown Our Sports . . . But strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Tennyson Our Advertisers . . . A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Bacon