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Jr. Red Cross Mumme:::-s Orpbeous 26 Aqualinks Cheerleaders Mimes Science Club Writers Club 27 Peppers Football at Lincoln NE 30 Art Club Chess Club Cheerleaders International Clllb Parents Meeting 7:30 October 2 GAA Mummers 3 Aqua.links Cheerleaders Mimes Science Club 4 Football-Grand Island 7 Cheerleaders 9 Honors Convocation ADVOCATE issued
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"Friendly, big, impressive II orderly, these words express the reactions of 12 new teachers at LHS. Mrs. Lynn Battey, English teacher, previously taught at DawesJunior High for three years. She is kept busy at home cooking and caring for a new pup. Mrs. Diana Biegler. biology teacher, enjoys water skiing in her spare time. She previ ously taught a college 1 ab at Northern state Teachers College. Mr. Calvin Sones, guidance teacher, has also taught mathematics and science and coached football in other Nebraska schools. Whenhe is not busy with his three children, he enjoys hunting and fishing. Starting her ninth year ot instructing courses ranging from music to English, is Mrs. Edyth Cascini. When asked about her • field of in( cont• d p. 3) I
Amongthose pictured above are the future HomecomingQueen and her court. Top panel {I. to r. ) Jf,oAnn Christ en sen, J,ynne Belote, Marcia Sims, Susie Diffenderfer, Linda Hart; Lower panel (I.tor.) Judy Myers, Bonnie Warner, Susie Phelps, Cathy Stilwell, Stephanie Beltz, Joyce Ilg. (Not pictured is Karen Stephenson.)
View of Academic P:rogram Planned For Parents Group The Lincoln High School Parents Group wil 1 become acquainted with the academic departments of LHS, when it meets September 30 at 7:30 p. m. for the first time under the 1963-64 theme "Knowyour school. " Gathering in the auditorium, the group will have a regular business meeting followed by an introduction to the English and History departments through speakers Mrs. Merrell Grant and Miss Florence Jenkins. Miss Elizabeth Grone, Fbrei-gn Language Department Chairman, wil 1 invite the Parents Group to Room 313, where they will view a Russian 1 anguage cl ass using the facilities of the new $14,000 foreign language laboratory. LHSJunior Gerald Holbrook and Senior Mark Johnson will provide musical entertainment during the regular business meeting. Refreshments in the cafe-
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Homecoming Dance A Football Fantasy Football Fantasy, the theme chosen for the homecoming dance, tlhe first for Lincoln High School in several years, will be held October 5, in the Johnson Memorial Acti vi ties Building. The affair is sponsored by the student Council and will last from 8:30 p,m. to 11: 30 p. m.
The Lee Thomas Band wi 11 provide music for dancing. During the intermission the Homecoming Q.Ieen, her court, and their escorts will be presented. Tickets at $1. 50 per couple, will be sold in the booth across from the cafeteria during the week preceding the HomecomingGamewith Grand Island, they mayalso be purchase-d at the door on the night of the dance.
Roaring Mouse Gets Laughs The 1963 Al 1 School Play will be a comedy, The Mouse that Roared. The play will be presented November 1, under the direction of Mrs. Maxine Faust and Mr. Jon Olsen, cadet teacher from Nebraska Wesleyan, who will assist. This play, full of wit and wisdon, is based on the wellknown book by Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse is a light, very modern, off-beat play about
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a microscopic European country faced with the problem of not having enough finances to remain in existence. The course of action taken to alleviate the situation, and the surprising results make for an al together enjoyable night at the theater. Says Mrs. Faust, ''Audiences have chuckled at this timely piece since its first production in 1962:' It has been only recently released for high school presentation.
The song, "There' 11 Be Some Changes Made," must have been written about Lincoln High. Men have been working on the building all summer, and have made some important additions to the school. The most noticeable change is in Room 208. All students know about this room, because they have had trouble finding their counselor in his half-constructed office. • NOTQUITEDONE Sr. Pictures Due Although it is unfinished, Room 208 allows counselors easy access to official records. They may confer with Calling all seniors! The other counselors on school ttme to start thinking and problems and here they have acting about senior pictures access to a phone and to secis here. retarial services. Al 1 pi·ctures must be in The new language 1 ab in Room Room 319 by 3:30 p.m., Fri313, an addition to the Forday, November 15. eign Language Department, Students are asked to wear provides room each period for dark clothing. For the boys, · an additional 37 students. dark top coats, white shirts, A WELL EQUIPPED LAB an.d dark. long ti es are reIncluded in the facilities cotnmended. Girls are advised are five remote, and three to wear dark sweaters with master recorders. The new and closed necklines. A simple old labs are open in the mornnecklace is acceptable. ing from 8: 00 to 8: 45 for stuThe following list of phodents whowant extra language tographers was approved at practice. a recent Board of Education meeting: A by-product of this conAnderson studio struction is a sound-proof Gene Barnett ceiling and new lighting in Edholm and Blomgren Room 213, directly below the Evans eortrait Studio Language lab. Gold & Co. One large drafting room was Hamilton's made from two rooms, 134 and Leslie McAdams 136. This room is all new, Miller & Paine from the tile floor to the Arthur Owens Studio f 1u o r e s c en t 1 i g h t s. Al 1 Ramsey Pboto s drafting equipment used in Townsend Photograph studio the room is new also. There have definitely been Photographers' names and some changes made. addresses are posted in sen(pictures on p. 3) ior home ·rooms.
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ENROLLMENT RISE OFFSET BY FACU LTV ADDITIONS One teacher for every 24. 02 pupils! With 98 teachers and 2354 students this is the approximate frequency of student distribution at Lincoln High School as the first semester of the 1963-64 school year gets underway. Newto LHS are 13 teachers, who are either replacements or added personnel employed to accommodate the increase in student population. The 1964 Senior Class of 653 people is composedof 316 boys and 337 girls. Of 832 juniors, 410 are boys and 422 are girls. The largest class,
the sophomore~. are more evenly divided. There are 439 boys and 430 girls for a total of 869. · Lincoln High is a complex machine which now requires a staff of 61 persons other than instructors to keep it running smoothly. The three adminstrators, Mr. William Bogar, Mr. William Pfeiff, and Miss Dorcas Weatherby, are backed up by six-office clerks. Mrs. Ruth Siefkes, librarian, is also provided with a clerk. Four administrative internes, (cont'd p. 4)
Fusan, Isn't it a small world when two students from entirely different parts of the globe meet and discover they have mutual interests? This happened to Fusan Unger of Turkey, and Carlos Blondete of Peru who converged on Lincoln, Nebraska, and discovered -- football.
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"People gather around the ball, jumpon each other, get into little groups to talk, then repeat the whole thing over again, 11 was FusanUnger' s interpretation of a football game. 11s· . " Is . t h e response I, sI, given by Carlos Blondete, American Field Service exchange student from Lima, Peru, when asked if he likes the game of football. Fusan is Lincoln High' s AFS student from Istanbul, Turkey. She arrived in Lincoln on August 16 and is living with Nancy Kelly, a junior at LHS, and her family. MILITARY TRAINING At the American school in Turkey, Fusan took 11 sub-
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j ects ! English literature and composition, algebra, psychology, physics, Turkish literature, Turkish history, military training, and physical education. Her extra acti vi ti es in eluded the presidency of the
discussion and debate club, work on the school newspaper, and the second lead in the all-school play. Fusan enjoys reading plays and poetry, listening to music, and swimming. ( cont' d p. 3)