Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Ja ' Kettle Causes Harried Individuals hi? much like Cinderellals coach, the gym reverted to its everyday look, for the clean-up crew had done its job. How- ever, all the work was not in vain, for this year's income was 5785. ff 'N Autumn's prism magni- fied its colors over fading summer leaves as school-goers bustled about trying to cram more soup into an already boil- ing kettle of animation. Classroom studies sim- mered while 100 juniors tossed spices into the stew by taking Preliminary Scho- lastic Aptitude Tests. Other middleclassmen began round- ing up talent to present to the student body in the'year's first class assembly. F r e n z i e d seniors ran about like dizzy ants ordering toys, painting posters, and planning costumes for the night when they would turn the clock back to revive the Roaring Twenties at Lavinrac Renretsew. Then, suddenly, dead week extinguished the fire. All ingredients settled to the bottom as clubs and activities ceased. Students crammed knowledge into their craniums in order to pass mid-semester exams. Silence enveloped the kitchen-the kettle was cold. Whip cream in the ole eyeball! moans Don Davis as he is sitting duck for the pie-toss, a successful new game that for the first time offered competition to the teacher dunk. . 1 253: 35 gems, sas-

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Acme of the half-time activities of this year's Borger game was the coronation of the 1961 Black and Gold Queen, Sara Cox. Being crowned by last year's queen, Lynnette McMillan, Sara is escorted by Joe Murfee. We'1'e the first boys to throw anyone in the University of Texas fountain, chuckles George McCleskey as he, Joe Murfee, Donna Heath, Barry Simmons, and George Bandzevicius tell homeroom students of the humorous and beneficial aspects of Boys' and Girls' State, which they attended this past summer. I8 Crammed ff' A big day on Westernerland's fall calendar is Lavinrac Renretsew. On the set Saturday sleepy seniors work from dawn to dusk to make the boys' gym take on a carnival look. Around 11 p.m.,

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l All Herald Everybody who's anybody wears a TB lbanglef' rants Mira Taylor. She and 31,600 other students supported the an- nual drive so earnestly that the ther- Another feather was added to the publications hat of accomplishment when memeter blew Its top' The 534710 eel' Westerner World sponsor Mrs. Nancy Kaisner, 1960 editor Carolene English, leffed Wes more than has ever before and editor Cecil Green flew to Chicago to accept the ANPA Pacemaker award, been received by any Lubbock School' dubbing the paper the top large high school newspaper in the nation. Meanwhile back in the states . . . croons Lonnie Dillard in approximately the fifteenth junior class assembly. This year's presentation, Around the YVorld in 80 Days, took the audience on a global tour with stops scheduled for visits to a tribe of African cannlbals, an Irish lassie, a couple of Mexican dancers, a young French singer, an Italian gypsy dancer, a German street band, and a group of girls in Oklahoma. 20