LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLN
VOL. LXVIIINO. I
New Teac rs Equalize Enrollment Increase
Five Named alists After six months of wishful waiting five Lincoln High seniors have moved one step closer toward a four-~ear Merit Scholarship to the college of their choice. Semifinalists have been revealed .. as: Dave Geier, Vic Lacy, LindaMarsh, Wayne Rasmussen, and Louis Schwartzkopf. In the period 1956-62, nearly 6000 students have received Merit Scholarship awards and thousand of other high-scoring students have been assisted in obtaining financial aid from other sources. Final selections will be announced sometime around May l, 1963.
The pupil population in Lincoln High as in other public schools has taken a sharp upward turn. This year has seen ,it trememdous influx of students to the school. The prob1 em has necessitated an addition of 15 new teachers to meet the increased needs. New to the English Department this year are Miss Kathleen Anderson, Mrs. Ann Barry, Mrs. Maxine Faust, Miss Angela Long, and Miss Catherine Masters. "Although I was under considerabl-e tension most of the Miss Anderson's first imtime, my trip to the Soviet pression of Lincoln High was 11 Union was truly a rewarding A graduate of "excellent! 11 "mey, I got one of those too," say National Merit Semi· experience. tl1P. University of Nebraska, finalists, Louis Schwartzkopf, Dave Geier, Vic Lacy, and This statement was made by she majored in speech and Wayne Rasmussen as they watch Linda Marsh reading the letMiss Lorraine Strasheim, Lin- drama. ter announcing her as a Merit Semifinalist. coln High' s Latin and Russian Her extracurricular activiteacher, whorecently returnties for this year will ined from an exciting trip. clude Mummerssponsorship. SPENDSSTRENUOUS YEAR shirts, and long dark ties. The 1963 Links Board has During a 10-month session Mrs. Barry is advisor for Girls should wear dark sweatset the deadline for senior at the University of Indiana, the 1963 Links Board. An LHS ers with closed necklines. Pictures. All photographs graduate, she served as busMiss Strasheim learned the The Time Has Come are to be in Room 319 no iness manager on the Links The best effect is gained Russian language and studied later than 3:30 p.m., Novem- by a full-front pose. No Russian history. Another five Board while attending LHS For Merit Hopefuls ber 21. extreme angles or profile weeks was devoted to prepa- and was valdictorian of her The total cost including All future 1964 graduates shots can be used. ration for her trip and then graduating class. and enof Lincoln High School who both press print She was on the Cornhusker Accepted studios are: five weeks was spent tourgraving fee is $3. wish to enter the 1963-64 staff while. at the University Anderson Studio ing a large part of Russia. Senior Biography Editor, National Merit Scholarship Barnett Photography The year's program was fi- of Nebraska. In her spare Dianne Chudly, asks that competition should register Bergantze studio nanced by the National De- time she enjoys boating and boys wear dark coats, white water skiing. now with their counselors. Edholm and Blomgren fense Act. This is the word from Miss Evans Portrait studio While in Russia, Miss The all-school-play direcDorcas Weatherby, assistant Strasheim had an opportunity Kids, Gold's Portrait studio to meet the people of the tor for this year is Mrs. Hamilton's studio Principal in charge of scholShe is a Drake UniSoviet Union. She was very Faust. Leslie McAdams studio arships. ln1All-School Play impressed by the amount of versity graduate. Miller and Paine studio MARCH DATE In her ownwords Mrs. Faust Townsend Photograph studio interest the people showed The National Merit Scholfeels that Lincoln High, the arship Qualifying Test will in American customs, the Amer'Cheaper staff, and the students are be given in the school Sat11 ican way of life, and their "just tremendous. urday March 9, 1963, from security. The 1962 All-School Play HAVESIMILARDESIRE 8:30 on. 11 Fo.-rner LIJS graduate, Miss will oe "cheaper by the DozIdeas must be very d1tterStudents who will graduate Long will sponsor Writers en." a three-act comedy by ent in Russia and the United from Lincoln High in 1964 SEPTEMBER and enter college in the same Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine states," remarked Miss str as- Club and Scribe Board. She majored in English and Carey, heim, 11but the people in both! 27 Reserve football at calendar year are eligible minored in social studies at FACTORY TECHNIQUE Boys Town for scholarship consideration countries haveII one similar , the university. In this lighthearted play, in the 1963-64 Merit Program. 28 Peppers d es1re, peace. Her first impression of LHS Dad is an efficiency expert To receive consideration Miss strasheim plans to be Football- Lincoln Northis the extreme friendliness who thinks what works at the the student must take the a tour leader in the Soviet east of the students and their factory will work at home test when it is offered in Union, next summer, under the loyalty toward the school. with his twelve children. his school. Participating National Defense Act's ForOCTOBER Anne, one of his daughters, students must pay a $1.50 eign Exchange Plan. Miss Masters is a graduate quarrels with him about his fee on the day of the test. 1 Chess Club of the UniversityofNebraska Awards in the Merit Program old-fashioned ideas on clothes 2 FUture Nurses '62 Girls Outnumber and minored in French and and efficiency, and his are granted on the basis of FUture Secretaries English. Lincoln High is much chapero~ insistence that he intellectual merit, but stuHi-Spot 66 Boys By larger than the high school her dates. The argument exdent financial needs deterAqualinks The new enrollment count she attended and she considtends throughout the play unmine the amount of individu3 sophomore Football-Boys for 1962-63 shows that a ers the stairs a challenge. til the end when an underal payment. The payments are Town record 2094 students are now She will help sponsor Peppers standing is reached. renewable each year without 4 Writers Club enrolled in Lincoln High. this year. COMMON EXPERIENCE further testing, 5 Football at Grand Island This is an increase of 311 8 Internatiaial INTERPRETATION GIVEN Club Play director, Mrs. Maxine students over last year• s Two new teachers have been After the test, each par· Art Club Faust says, "The play has record total. added to the History Departticipating student receives 9 Aqualinks warmth and feeling. The misGood news (for the boys at ment at Lincoln High. They an interpretive folder that 10 Honors Convocation understanding between father least) is that there are are Miss Judith Farris, and reports individual test reGAA and daughter is a commonexMr. William story. 1019 boys and 1075 girls. sults for comparison with M11mmers perience. The play is a good Miss Farris, a graduate of sophomores add up to the 11 scores of high school stuAdvocate issued audience-getter. the University of Nebraska., grand total of 895 pupils dents across the country. '---------------------------consisting of 433 boys and majored in history and minored in English and French. 462 girls. The junior class accounts She is teaching American for 744 students with boys and World history at LHS and 11 sponsor of the Collegian, and Student Coun- numbering 366 and girls 378. is assistant The biggest difference The seniors, the smallest cil president. Student Council. that I have found in America Mario's father is a farmer class with 93 students less A former graduate of Lincis the freedom of voicing that last year• s class, who raises coconut, cacao, oln High, she declares ''it opinion in school," stated 11 total 455 with 220 boys and rice, and corn, as well as hasn't changed much! Mario Landingin, Lincoln most of the other food the (cont• d p, 3) 235 girls. High' s foreign exchange studfamily uses. ent. Mario, whois from Zamboanga ONEOF SEVEN Mario's family is large City, the Philippines, a city (he is one of seven children.) approximately the size ot 11 posed, she emphasizes. 11 For the second year no He has one sister and three Lincoln, says, I find Amer11 The worst problem nowconbrothers older than he and a permits will be required for icans very hospitable and inf'ronting the office is that the three student parking younger sister and brother. terested in making my stay some students are parking in lots adjacent to the school. The co-educational school as pleasant as poss1'bl e. II wrong lanes and are not parkThe reason is that parking which he attends in the PhilLONGSCHOOL DAY thus using up have greatly im- ing straight, ippines is called Zamboanga practices At home, Mario studies A.E. Colleges and is both a proved over the last few more than the alloted space. world history, United States Another problem arises when high school (seventh through years according to office history, oriental history, students park in the faculty clerk, Mrs. Alice Hibbert, tenth grades) and a college. physics, third year algebra, lot. II who issues the parking perMario would have entered the 11 Pilipino (the language of the If the student body will mits. college section this year. Philippines,) physical educrack down on these irreguIT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN After attending this colcation, and English. His larities, restrictions on school day starts at 7: 30 and lege, he plans to enroll in parking will not be necessary "However, if student parkthe University of the Philends at 4: 30. and parking will be much simHis extracurricular activiippines in Quezon City, where ing should become a major pler and easier,'' she beproblem, permits and rehe will study to become a tiies included associate editlieves. strictions again will be imMario doctor of medicine. or of his school paper, the
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