Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Resembling the proverbial grandfather clock, the school's 31-year old master timepiece keeps VVesternerland on schedule, sounding bells that send students scurrying. Reserved for educational guidance sessions, Wednesday's fifth period often looks like a homeroom variety show with acts varying from survival films to love and marriage lectures. Addressing and mailing graduation invitations is a sure sign that secondary school is almost over for some. Though traditional, the cards usually add hours of work to an already brimming senior calendar. .2 Q ' . . , i -, f 'gli' A Alai-K M ft if w il t pigtam' ' Jtief ' Sunny spring afternoons excite innate longings for outdoor pring, though, was a season replete with occasions longest considered a part not of the new, but of the traditional Lubbock High School. From Roundup time in March through grad- uation exercises in June, everyone was aware primarily of the venerableness of his alma mater. Seniors especially could appreciate the precedents -Kid Day, the senior banquet, Senior Day, and the donning of the black cap and gown--set for them by previous classes. The grandiose old building, viewed in a more respectful light by many now that their high school careers were nearing an end, reflected vividly the customs built up over decades by thousands of Westerners. This, then, has been a unique year, a mile- stone in the progress of the school, for more clearly than ever before the new and the old joined forces to create for Westerners a satisfy- ing year. , .,,, --,.a,ae--W,..i.,-aW..c...,.ff,--.k,f....-.-.aa., 1-M

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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.

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