Western High School - Westerner Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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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

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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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being made through our Student Council to lengthen them. One of the ventures which the 1945-46 Student Council can exclusively claim is the launching of the Club Room. The old Ration Board rooms were taken over in September and due to the perseverance of the Student Council members, particularly its president, Doyle Rogers, they were painted, varnished and . . . the feeling wasn't mutual put in order, much to the delight of the many students who frequent it. The traditional Christmas Pageant under the supervision of Old Nick himself, was given with all the expressive beauty of the choir and tableaux and proved that Wester1i's '45-'46 Choir certainly upheld all of the dignity and loveliness of the previous pagents. About this time the February class was pre- . . . music hath charms, and so hath David.