Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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The Funeral March echoed as a solemn crowd paid their last respects to Tom S. and buried his body fol- lowing the school board's unanimous vote to reinstate Lubbock High as the official school name. Lubbock High School abounds with leaders, as is ex- emplified by the fact that this year LHS made a clean sweep in the Elks' Leadership Contest. Admiring Carole Stanley's honorable mention booklet are Donna Heath, first place girlg Joe Murfee, first place boyg and Carole, honorable mention girl. ' ourners' Hail So this is that scrumptuous junior candy, muses Sam Henry upon his stop at the Peppermint Lounge to act as the official confection taster for Foch Benevent and Mitch Mount. Sales added S100 to the prom fund. The ominous sounds of the death dirge sounding from the auditorium organ brought nothing but joy to the hearts of Westerners who faced the new term with unrestrained joy after laying Tom S. to rest for all eternity. After hearts were thus made joyful and souls re- j uvenated, juniors took on the job of sweetening dispositions with their annual candy sale. In the meanwhile, pupils spent hours analyzing Iowa Test composite results with the help of their homeroom teachers, and preparing themselves mentally for the upcoming National Merit Schol- arship Qualifying Test. Then the pace slackened just long enough for minds to be relaxed by the 1962 senior play, Pride and Prejudice, and sides to be shaken by the sophomore's first class assembly, Rocking '6O's. Adding still more spice to the weekly routine, every group from the Spanish club to the golf squad scheduled brief jaunts all over the state-from Austin to Denton-to test their abilities in meets, to try their vote-getting talents in elections, and voice their opinions at conventions. Thus, hearts, souls, minds, and daily lives all felt the effect of the arrival of the spring term.

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Yuletide, Bemoan Sated schoolgoers decorated a tree of anima- tion when they returned from the goody-filled Thanksgiving holidays. Publications personnel capped the crest of the sapling with a shiny star signifying the 1961 Westerner had won first place in state competition. Juniors added festive balls of Iowa tests and the class assembly while seniors, after much confusion, finally contributed a trinket that meant Jan. 11 was the date of their class finale. Sophomores weren't to be left out, for they donated their tracery, indicating plans for their first class production had begun. To herald Yuletide, paired homerooms once again adopted Guadalupe and Sanders rooms, and then the holidays arrived, allowing eleven care- free days for students and faculty alike. Two weeks after the new year broke forth, the lights of the animated tree were yanked from the sock- et, for deadweek cut off all electrical outlets. The only available energy was brainpower in motion. Beth Followill dreams her special dreams of Christmas as her sister admires toys in a store window. Semester Exams Definition of mid-term: school's half overg tests are grue- some. Sages find the latter theory holds more water, for all imitate Ellen Dunias and Jo Irwin in the articulate art of cramming. One, two, three, kick, murmurs Janis Baucum during her baffling performance before ski-minded senior vaca- tionists who took an imaginative trip to Lauderdale in the Rockiesv for their c-lass assembly finale. 2I

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Funeral arch Before New Term The Rocking 60's got off to a swinging start as two hula girls undulated onto the stage, to signify the culmination of two months of continual toil and tiring rehearsals for some 30 ulcerated lowerclassmen. Before the finished product could be presented to a scrutinous student body, the tasks of writing the script, designing and printing programs, building sets, and making-up performers had to be completed. Thus, writers, typists, artists, carpenters, make-up specialists, seamstresses, and general handymen-all these and many more- got into the act, for all talents were needed and were used to the fullest extent. Masculine attention was scarce at the Bennett house, so Gail Gregg and Rosemary Conlan trapped any male, namely Billy Jewell. I v Virtually every other week all spring one group or another was conventioning. A typical dele- gate, Mike Patterson, is prepared for anything and everything.