Western High School - Westerner Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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before a physics test, and coinplaeeney upon passing it, for is it the other way around?jg the hours in the club rooni where we danced the hours awayg our reluctance to comply with Mrs. XVoodall's Daily Seven, while we cheer- fully inunch a hot dog and a candy harg our fun and laughter, our eokes and jazz, and most of all, our teachers and friends-all this goes to nrake up our years at VVestern which well . . A1hert's daily ritual ff, w W X in-f 'u'W1Wv-eww., stand out no inatter where we go or what we do. 'l'he football gaincs were in the spotlight at the heginning of the year, and though the scores were not always in our favor. it was at these gaines that VVestcrn's cheerleaders lcd the teams on to victory with the full support of the student body. VVestcrners were also very proud of Don Lichty and Iohn Beatty, . . . sure was crowded the night of the Serufi' Dance

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C 'WARD . . . we were all in a hurry to get to the garlic admiration and respect, through our illus- trious halls and soon were well acquainted with our songs and cheers, though most of them experienced a little difliculty with the floor plan. A typical school day-filled with all the little things that seem so trivial at the time hut which assume appropriate size through the passages of time. School is not only a place of hard-working, future Iiinstcins twisllful thinkinglj hut it typities all that in our teens is so glorious and memorable to us. 'l'hings like the thrills of a game, and even bigger thrills afterwardsg the dances, tespeeially the one where the captain of the team danced with usjg that cold dread that fills our hearts . . . lrowdy' folks, it's swell to be lnaelc

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. this is how it's done eaptain of o11r team, who 111ade tl1e All-llggh 'l'C2lIll tl1is year. NAZCSHJYIICTS responded with entliusiasin to the Zllllllllll 'l'll1lllliSgiViIlg eolleetion this year :ind presented at the asseinlnly a total of fifteen baskets of food plus flS234.2l to he distributed Illllllllg various needy organizations. Our persistant denial of knowledge was singular. to say the least. lint our assemblies lf tr 1 5 l t .,, it I .zu if rv, 5.1 l7CC2lll1C famous in their own Tlglll'-lllillllly for our laelc of speakers. Some of tl1e best were tl1e ninsieal assenihliesg those which fea- tured Sarah Thrush and Ray Waln were always popular, and David Bean's Gershwin asseinhly also met with instant and lasting appreciation. However, the assemblies, regard- less of their merit were always too short accord- ing to the audiences and plans were eonstantly . . . a study in neatness