Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Storming their favorite hangout, a local ice cream parlor, elated Westerners rejoice over the latest basketball victory, forgetting for the time being that awaiting them at home is the usual insurmountable mountain of pressing home- work to be dispensed with before hitting the sack. Standing sentry over the north entrance. two towering figureheads, part of the richly hewn architecture of the original building, have over- looked the coming and going of Westerners for 31 years.

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lthough the school's face looked almost the same last September as it had in 1931, a closer inspection proved surface appearances mis- leading. Hidden by the old Spanish architecture were multitudinous signs of progress. For instance, the publications department and Student Council had moved to more spacious second floor facilities. New labs for classes rang- ing from foreign languages to auto mechanics were replete with the very latest learning devices and tools. Chapman Field had been re- juvenated, and Lowrey Field gave Lubbock squads a home site of their own. So, fall was a time of adjustment for every- one-from the 20-year faculty member who thought he knew the school inside out, to the greenest sophomore hesitantly treading the long, strange halls. Yet the feeling prevailed that, underneath, Westernerland was still the same, that these changes were but catalysts exciting the tradi- tional spirit to ever higher feats. i ! Soaring far above the main entrance, the auditorium tower, a hallmark of Lubbock High School, casts a tradition-tinged shadow over the campus. Visible for miles, the column is the particular of the school with which nearly all Lubbockites are familiar. An air-conditioned oasis on sweltering days, the cafe- teria turns into a human bee hive during the busy lunch hour, when students pause to fill empty stomachs and catch up on the latest. A 1962 senior gift, the wooden LHS, was set at the south end of Lowrey Field last fall. To many a ball game is not just a contest-it's fun, an energy outlet . . . or corndogs.

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The Good Old Days are reflected in this detailed mural of the building depicting the campus as it looked in 1952. That year's senior class raised the funds necessary ut the environment was not all that had changed this year. By winter it had become evi- dent that the entire school's population had un- dergone rejuvenation. Pep rallies were the loudest, most spon- taneous in many seasonsg bleachers bulged with excited fans at home ball gamesg and, for the first time in five years, enough tickets were sold to warrant having an all-school party. The new administration's enthusiasm was in apart responsible for this outburst of spiritg but the restoration of the school's original title, Lubbock High School, seemed to add the final spark to the wildly bubbling pot of school loyalty. The first six months of 1961-62 had proven that something new was afoot-that new ideas were working on the old foundations of Lubbock High School. to have the entire history of Lubbock's original high school recorded in paint on the south wall of the cafeteria. The year's craziest fad, the twist, provided a real chal- lenge to even those looser-limbed people at LHS.