Topeka High School - Sunflower Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Like . . . the bandmaster with his baton, our administrators direct and lead the music of the student life in our great, towered school. mmm na was as 1 , 7 7 vi 1 YL

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Contents Administration Departments Class Album 10 24 60 Student Life 122 Athletics 168 Senior Activities 200 Advertising 218 This Was the Year - WHEN TROJANS thrilled to the sight of their great public relations organization, the Band, wearing sparkling new uniforms of white, gold, and black, the result of fund raising and planning on the part of many people . . . THIS WAS THE YEAR when Trojans took their first dips into a 353,000 pool, the dream of a school board and the architects when the building was constructed over a quarter of a century ago . . . THIS WAS A YEAR of progress in scholastic planning, renewed emphasis on the values of learning, the investigation of training for careers, and a new realization that the teaching and learning processes in today's schools would be responsible for happy or tragic years to come . . . THIS WAS THE YEAR when Around the World was a hit song, a hit movie, and the revival of a book that in its way was a fantastic prophesy of our times . . . THIS WAS THE YEAR of Sputnik, Muttnik, Vanguard, and Explorer, of Summit Meetings and a new feeling that One World has a very important meaning- This was the year that will go down in history as the beginning of the Space Age. What man makes of the age will rest in the hands and on the shoulders of those who are entering adulthood, whether that be in homemaking, in business, in military, professional, or technical training . . . THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR for 2,100 Trojans who suddenly feel a part of a marching band of ntional, international, and even planetary importance. Looking backward and turning forward, we say it in these words . . . Here Comes the Band'

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