Maplewood Richmond Heights High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Maplewood, MO)

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The warm sun shining down on The bleachers offers an invmng place To recess for a few minufes afTer lunch VViTh The coming of The firsf warm days of spring or during The crisp blusTery days of early auTumn many of us reTreaT To The ouTdoors for a shorT inTermission in The middle of The day The chance To relax and geT a Tew in vigoraTing gulps oT air is enioyed by seniors and undergrads alike Somefimes The afTernoon is broken by an assem bly. TalenT shows and STudenT Council movies are always looked forward To. The seniors on Their envied lofTy perch in The balcony picTured on page T13 are connoisseurs of TalenT show chorus lines. Three oclock sends many sTudenTs To one of our varied afTer-school acTiviTies. There is a club or sporT To suiT any inTeresT' fooTball chess phoTography or hockey To name a few. Every club and sporT is .pic- Tured in The AcTiviTies secTion wiTh a wriTe-up Telling abouT iTs parf in life aT Maplewood. Our social life cerTainly has noT been neglecTed eiTher. Proms and dances wiTh Their kings, queens, and maids are presenTed in The social secTion. As The day draws To a close and dusk seTTles, The halls grow dim and silenT. If you listen carefully abouT five each nighT, you will hear a few voices echoing in The empTiness or someone's TeeT go paT- Tering down The sTeps To The parking loT where a friend is waiTing To drive him home.

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5. ,.v Nu g In-1: M. 13.1-L As Wa' five .7i Our life here aT Maplewood is as pleasanT as The day is long. The many faceTs of ThaT life are reflecTed in The following pages. In The morning many of us arrive by bus Having exTra Time, we chaT wiTh our friends in The halls be- fore going To class. OfTen, as The firsT class begins, a few sleepy heads come dashing up The sTairs and down The hall seconds before The Tardy bell. Classes keep us occupied all morning wiTh Their wide-ranging subiecTs. Maybe we're in English or LaTin, or hisTory or shop-whaTever, we are cerTain To be having a good Time soaking up knowledge wiTh our friends surrounding us. A number of classes are picTured in Maple Leaves To spark your memories When The lunch bell rings everyone impulsively leaps To his feeT and dashes down To The cafeTeria as if by reflex acTion WhaTs for lunch? is heard near The end of The line MeaT loaf mashed poTaToes wiTh gravy and buTTered peas is The reply The slow moving lunch line shown aT The lefT used up precious minuTes of our shorT lunch period 1. 14

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Administration SCHOOL BOARD -- 1954-1955 HIRAM NEUWOEHNER E B BROWN JOHN FOEHR E R ADAMS Superintendent 5 P DAVIDSON JR ARTHUR FROECKMANN CHESTER SMITH