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q ■ i We Faced It I riQ6 We Made It In order to achieve higher academic standards, extra-curricular activities were cut down, and students started hitting the books harder than usual and learned to tram themselves to study more when House Bill 72 became a New Tradition, at Lee. H.B. 72 was not the only problem that arose at Lee High School. Racial imbalance became a topic at Lee when the community got involved. The racial imbalance at Lee became a touchy subject, and. newspaper and television coverage was a disservice to the positive self-image of the student body. said Principal Henry Armstrong. He atso concluded, our buildings are old. but our programs are up to the-mmute The School Board and administration managed to make sure that both Lee and Sterling were treated equally. When it was finally realized by faculty and students that Lee would not give up and when there's a will, there really is a way. keeping the grades and the chins up was not as bad as most expected April SpMfltr ifvj Staff ank ftatoback make piam 1« tin Spnog Br« Fofcts ComnUstof lo school ipint. the art ctaoei prepare a fun thro«|h porter for the upcoming football game 6
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Pride Media Blitz Turns Heads The outcries of the Baytown community about the racial imbalance at Robert E. Lee High School had the potential of tarnishing our Gander Pride. The threat was REAL. TV cameras, local papers, and Houston area papers earned the news that rocked our community Accusations such as our school was a Ghetto School and that the teachers were incompetent and not qualified for teaching, hit us where it hurt our pride As the controversy wenl on. students and faculty accepted the cnticism. some- times as constructive and sometimes with resentment, but with each punch thrown by the media, papers, and community, we seemed to grow stronger and create a united front Pride and togetherness made a special warmth around the school. Even after the Board decision to rezone the district. Gander Pride was still alive in eighty five; perhaps the tension brought us closer than we ever thought possible. Sure there were problems, every school has some, but to be exposed to the entire state of Texas as below par was an insult In a letter to the Baytown Sun's Publisher Mr. Leon Brown, Principal Henry Armstrong assured the community that. Robert E Lee is a vibrant campus full of energy and purposeful student population, with a faculty and staff strongly commit- ted to continuing long-established traditions of excellence in ail facets of its program He also concluded. Robert E. Lee High School stands tall and proud with a stout heart second to none We were and had always expected to be nothing but THE BEST Joe Slum shows the true meaning ol the Hr» Fashions 0t i. the approach is ■ kttte backward to uv Mrs Saty Black'» and Snoopy » tnend. Woodcock teaches her math classes a lesson on IN lee and Sterling toot bud game
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