West Deer High School - Coalagra Yearbook (Russellton, PA)

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BACK T0 SCHOOL-A wczml-lm-uking crowd of stnclunts rclurm-ml for thc 20th anniversary ll'l'lll ill Wm-st D1-ur. ffw. 11 TAKES WILL POWER-'Snlc was , ,133 .Ax x gvlling hack lo thu hooks. UNDER THE BAR-Everyone was dancing the limbo. Barb Stccz is going to make it. To her righl is for wus!!j Bill Rcith whose limbo-cr was off kiltcr.

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HI, FOLKS-Sharon Utcscher gives out with a big greeting as the school year gets umlcrway. F ORE WORD zoth Anniversary Year Leaves Memories for All This was the 20tl1 anniversary of West Deer High School. It became the year a jam-packed school enrollment of 1,073 students will never forget. On the following 150 pages is the official history ofthe 1962-63 school term at West Deer High. A group of eight photographers, an editorial and business stag of over 85 people, and one faculty adviser combined talents and dedicated work to preserve the complete story. It required a collection of 1,543 photograplzs and over 20,000 written words to adequately tell the story. What made this 20th year so significant? Well, to dijjferent people it probably was diferent things. Maybe one memory everyone will have is the frenzied joy we experienced when our basketball team won the championship for the first time in the schoolls history. Or do you remember some other aspects of life in that year? Perhaps you trembled as did everyone else in the world during those anxious moments when we seemed on the verge of war over the Cuban situation. Maybe you remember that record shattering cold snap when you trudged to school while the thermometer read 20-below zero. More likely, it will be those fleeting moments you'll remember most. The limbo dance.. .wig hats.. .love chains out of chewing gum wrappers . . . 50-mile hikes for President Kennedy's physical fitness program . . .Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra . . . the Beverly Hillbillies of TV. .. If these reflections come to mind from time to time, we know you will enjoy reviewing your 1963 Coalagra, whether it be today or 50 years from now when you chuckle over it with your grandchildren.

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+ .4 .:b t wi, ,R . gy .. g 'ah S 1-Y 1. X R T x V - xfxtxly ' QUEEN KATHY-Football Homecoming Queen. I . In August - September. . . Back to West Deer High We Come For Another Exciting Year Smiles and shouts, the joys of old friendships renewed, new faces mingled among the old-these greeted all as the doors of West Deer High School opened for the exciting 20th Anniversary term. A busy summer ended officially August 28 when West Deer continued its tradition of being the hrst area school to commence instruction for the year. This term also inaugurated the new 182-day session. For the past 20 years it had been 180 days. It wasn't long, however, that all settled down to the routine of classes and lzomeworlel Making the first out-of-the-classroom news was the beginning of football season and selection of lovely Kathy Preisser as Homecoming Queen. At after-game celebrations, a new contortion dance known as the I,imbol' was making itself known. Soon all at West Deer were trying it and doing every imaginable back-bending antic to get under the limbo bar. And who w0n't remember the top song of the month-a weirdy called The Monster Mash. It heralded quite a beginning for a mighty eventful year. ink,-of Y, -1 captain Ron Trcvcllini docs the honors of crowning Kathy Preisscr