South Park High School - Spindletop Yearbook (Beaumont, TX)

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l l Fun Gives Way to Studies RELAXIN' . . . Students relax during lunch period and become reacquuinted with old friends on one of tlie first days of school. I GIVE UP . . . Muffy Odom drops her books and tlirows up her hands in despair after her first day at S.P.H.S. EiN.! 'w1wmT Af ?'3 ESI. it ':,,, HOME AGAIN . . . Greenies leave South Park, their second liome after the first days of getting back into tlie swing of scliool life.

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,ne Refu ees OVER AND OUT . . . Jim Mullin sets up Civil Defense communications headquarters at South Park Cupper rightl. SLEEPING SOUNDLY . . . An unidentified child sleeps soundly on the cafeteria floor unaware of Hurricane Carla's destruction outside frightj. The doors of South Park opened wide and evacuees were welcomed to food and shelter during one of the Worst hurricanes in recent times. Hurricane Carla caused over 500 persons to be evacuated to South Park High School. Many students, teachers, and P.T.A. members re- mained at the school during the storm, registering evacuees for the Red Cross and helping wherever possible. Families from the area and from Louisiana lived in the music building, the cafeteria, and the three floors of the main building for four days until the Hall cleari' signal sounded for the people to return to their homes.