Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Festivities Vie For Attention Of ldling Scholars igfifiiiilk Carrying individualism to an extreme, Charles Adams, Leete Jackson, and Don Davis dare to be different in erecting their snowman on top of a car in downtown Lubbock during the seven-inch early December snowfall. We mfs, Y 1 7 w H K ta Full of holiday spirit, Linda Bell pauses in her Christmas shopping long enough to buy her TB bangle. All-School Council personnel sold more than S60 worth of bangles during this year's drive. Trying to choose the right answer are Tommy Middleton, Glenda Oldham, Loyce Hunter, and Peggy Holloman. 'Sift H' 3 Viaifizili QM i' Winning first prize in the serious division of the annual door decoration contest was room 201 with a mosaic scene. In the humorous divi- sion, room 110 won first. Blending their voices to spread holiday Cheer, Mrs. Mildred Carver's Harmonaires carol throughout the halls on the last day of classes before the 12-day Christmas vacation.

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This is real courtesy! laughs Steve Magee as he and Mr. Ray Crawford carry Nancy Hcnry's and Miss Laurene books upstairs. Balloting for Mr. and Miss climaxes Courtesy Week. Nancy and Steve Bussey's Courtesy claimed the students' titles while Mr. Crawford and Miss Bussey swept away the teachers' honors for the fourth straight year. Tests are the curse of all students, lament Mary Boyce, George Randzevicius. and Betty Estes as they ponder over one of the many such trials confronting them during the school year. All up in the air over his physics experiment, Mike Sherrod demonstrates pre- cision rotary motion with the cautious guidance of Mr. Rogers Orr. Pre-Holiday Ballotin , Turkey-filled learners returned to the class room when the long-awaited Thanksgiving V2 cation ended all too soon. School time was imme diately consumed by senior assembly tryouts California tests for all sophomore English classes and the beginning of plans for the junior candj sale. December slid into existence with icy streets While busy Westerners barely had time to notic its entrance. Class favorite balloting took thi limelight with run-offs following soon after Plant and decoration committee members decker the halls with signs of Christmas and homeroom: vied for the door prizes. None too soon the last day of school arrivec with all its gaiety of parties and giving of toy: to the adopted rooms of Sanders and Guadalupe and annual drive of the Goodfellows. - Bla f :Ap ,As ...N X Putting first things first, Carolyn Teague begins he homemaking project during clothing class. ln Dccembei the seamstresses turned fashion-moflcds and displaye their self-made garments in the year's first all-gil assembly. An escape from the regular school day routine is offered juniors by Iowa Testing time. -..E

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Old fashioned or not, party-goers look forward to the traditional twelve o'clock magic moments under the mistletoe. Yes, we can bake a pumpkin pie-we think, say Joselyn Jones and Beth Payne as they prepare to try their newly acquired skill picked up in the first semester of senior homemaking. Coffeets hot, music's playing softly, book's ready, but George, well! Mid-term exams evidently overwhelmed Mr. New Year Rolls In As Down-to-earth fateful exams climaxed an ex- citing eighteen weeks of football games, after- game parties, assemblies, pep rallies, initiations, fun, and disappointments as once more a studious silence enveloped the campus. Commotion was at an unbelievable standstill while suddenly grade- minded learners searched books for enough knowl- edge to pass. Teachers, too, incessantly scanned texts before duplicating tests, as they prepared for the bi-annual event. No explanation was needed -this was mid-term. All club business on agendas was completed and final projects drew to a close as the swiftly passing days paid no heed to the almost-but-not- quite-completed activities. Members resolved to be more active participants as plans took form for the coming months. Eight seniors bid teachers and classmates farewell when their high school days came to an end at mid-term. Anticipation, however, filled other seniors as they eagerly awaited the begin- ning of their last, fun-filled semester in LHS.