Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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ffm, r i t ' es ri r - l ' A Not knowing whether to laugh 01' scream for Westerners find it exceedingly hard to study for final exams help Raydean Ramsey is caught with her with the warm spring days calling them elsewhere, but juniors mouth open as Bill Hogan and Thomas Gen- Ronnie Terry and Ronnie Henderson manage to take time from a try work off excess energy on Senior Day. baseball game to do a little bit of cramming. Year-End Turmoil Eludes None May broke forth with all the noise and clatter of a ring- ing alarm clock. Schoolgoers awoke to the fact that only one month remained and jumped to their feet to begin Wading through end-of-the-year red tape. Lowerclassmen came up for air after the frantic rush of scheduling their own classes and teachers for next fall be- fore submerging once more in diligent attempts to finish un- completed studies. This meant seclusion to relearn subject matter that had somehow man- aged to go in one ear and out the other. Pedagogues Weren't miss- ing any tricks either, for before and after daily classes they dashed for one of the three duplicating machines or typing rooms to prepare pretty papers with a lot of little blank spaces. Seniors pressed the gal- lop button and charged full force into Senior Day, their banquet, final tests, tif they weren't exemptb baccalaureate, and, finally, graduation. For them, high school's door was closed.

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Ummm, good eatin', chomp spring picknickers, Susan Sanders, Nub Neighbors, Roy Heath, Rex Fuller, Charley Ray, Dwayne Wilson, Mike James, Sue Hancock, and Eddie Broome as they enjoy one of the season's first watermelons. School's fine as long as the weather's cold, but at the first hint of green trees and warm sunshine, students flee their routines and books and head for the outdoors-on Saturday, that is. Erect, proud, and relieved that after twelve years of studious labor their efforts are finally rewarded, Bonita Abbe, John Boswell, Mary Boyce, Ruby Copelin, Don Davis, Trent Humphries, and Gilley Treadaway practice receiving their diplomas. 26

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Responsible for recording class activities throughout the Jills-of-all-trades. general staff members, Sue H2ll1C0Cka year are editors Kay Williamson, junior sectiong Linda Sue Taylor, Regina Milburn, Maxine Akins, Francene Hicks, Joyce Murphrey, sophomore sectiong Jon-Anna Akins, Marsha Neunaber, and Ginger Ohlenbusch, work Hankins, Dorothy Wells. senior section. under various section editors. '61 Staff Puts ut nothcr Preparing copy-only one of the myriad duties involved in compil- ing an advertising section-are Roger Thrailkill, business man- agerg George McCleskey, exchange copy managerg and Kent Keeton, assistant business manager. For the second straight year, an award-Winning year- book was produced by West- erner staff members in 1961. Honors received by that edi- tion of the book include a first place in Texas High School Press Association competition and an A+ rating from the National Scholastic Yearbook Association. Last year also marked an important first for the annual staff, which pub- lished its original supplement covering spring events. The THSPA award was received this past December by a delegation of 17 publications Workers attending the three- day Denton convention. Between September and March, the largest yearbook in seven years, this 296-page 1962 publication, was produced by a 28-member staff. Feb. 1 on a yearbook calendar means that only 28 scant days are left to meet the final deadline. Susan San- ders, index and art editor, completes indexing, while Kathy Auxer, assist