West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Oh Wag of ou! Wiest olafayette High eSeeh HOW WE LEARN HOW WE LIVE HOW WE PLAY as depicted in this 1944 Scarlet and Gray

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Oin Way of Lif HOW WE LIVE... EMEMBER the day when a wide-eyed girl and a stout-hearted boy, typical young Americans, stepped into the lower hall of West Lafayette Senior High School? They looked around timidly, and meeting no rebuff stepped forward ready to face their first day in the school to which they had been looking forward for years. They were eager to start their journey of book learning by means of the highways of lessons, laboratories, activities, and fun. They 99 66 began the struggle through history and “econ,” “trig” and Latin, English and physics—a maze of facts. Time flew by. The girl became interested in the art of home making, and the boy tried his skill at shop and mechanical drawing. By their senior year the boy and girl were matching their wits in the “chem lab,” or competing in speech or “math.” The girl had the lead in the senior play; the boy won honors in athletics. Before the seniors quite realized it, the time came to put away football helmets, W.L. sweaters, basketballs, and megaphones, senior pictures, and Hi-Y pins and don caps and gowns in which to grad- uate from studying books, yelling at games, or bowing heads on Good Friday morning. The day came when the boy and girl, who had traveled up that familiar winding walk such a short time ago, went out of the school door as adults, carrying with them their new bundles of facts and ways of thinking and their cherished memories of their high school days at W.L.H.S.