The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1965 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 31 Lubbock High School, Lubbock, Texas, February 19, 1965 No. 19
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Mountain’ Erupts Monday
All juniors were given a chance
last week in homeroom to sign up
and make candy for the “worth-
while” cause; all students were
assigned a day on which to bring
their contribution to the sale. Miss
Nelda Jobe is junior sponsor and
is in charge of collecting the can-
dy for the sale in her room.
OTHER committee heads for the
event are Jan Rawlings, Barbara
Durham and Melinda McElroy,
publicity; Deanie Fulton and Mary
Matthews, decorations; Max Tar-
box, order forms and Billy, PA
jingles.
“Although the Junior-Senior
Prom in May is just for upper-
classmen,” explains Barbara, “We
do encourage sophomores to buy
candy in preparation for next
year. And we say to the seniors
and juniors, ‘If you want a dance,
buy candy — three or four times
a day.’ ”
POSTERS HAVE been up all
week to encourage participation
and both juniors and seniors are
“talking it up.”
The decorations committee is
working on special “Rock Candy
Mountain” designs for the S C
booth and will have them up be-
fore 8 a.m. Monday, according to
Mary.
"THE CANDY Sale is all that
we — upperclassmen — have be-
tween us and a Prom this spring,”
urges Keeton Zachary, student
body president. “So I say, let’s
go seniors and buy that candy!”
All juniors were given a chance
to participate in the annual event
and according to committee heads,
“It’s going to be bigger and better
than ever!”
Honors Classes Offer Enriched, Deeper Study Course
“We would rather have students
who made a ‘B’ in an honors class
than an ‘A’ in a regular course,”
comments Mrs. Maxine Brown, of
Lindwood College, St. Charles,
Missouri.
"ALTHOUGH WE don’t place as
much stress on the grades of stu-
dents as most people think, we try
to encourage all interested students
to enter Texas Tech. However, we
do think that an honors ‘B’ stu-
dent is willing to work more than
one who makes an ‘A’ in a regu-
lar class, because if a student can
make an ‘A’ in a regular class, he
is capable of making a ‘B’ in an
honors,” explains Dr. Ivan Lee Lit-
tle, Texas Tech registrar.
“Although quality, rather than
quantity, is important, I will not
say that we don’t have anything
to do . . . we have an awful lot to
do. But being in the honors class,
we are better able to cope with the
work,” explains Judy Watkins,
junior.
SOME STUDENTS get the idea
that an “H” class will be more
difficult than the regular course
and that they might not do as
well, but Mr. Ronnie Robertson,
counselor, emphasizes, “If the stu-
dent is qualified enough and works
to his capacity to get an ‘A’ in a
regular course, I see no reason
why the student cannot make an
‘A’ in the more enriched honors
class.”
As an example, there were ap-
proximately an equal number of
students making “A’s” and “B’s”
in the honors classes. In “H” his-
tory there were 7 “A’s” and 11
“B’s”, in biology there were 8
“A’s” and 9 “B’s”, in English there
were 13 “A’s” and 12 “B’s”, in al-
gebra there were 12 “A’s” and 8
“B’s”, in geometry there were 26
“A’s” and 2 “B’s” and in chemistry
there were 7 “A’s” and 4 “B’s”.
"GRADES ARE important in the
honors class, as they are in other
classes, but if a student does as
well as he can, he need not wor-
ry,” offers Mr. E. C. Leslie, vice
principal. “However, if the student
fails to work to capacity, he will
be removed from the class for the
good of the others.”
Students who wish to apply for
honors classes next year must
meet 12 requirements set by the
Lubbock school system. These
qualifications include past scholas-
tic achievement, recommendation
of present and former teachers and
counselors, special interest in the
subject, results of various stan-
dardized tests and an interest in
reading and research.
OTHERS ARE a well developed
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Set against the backdrop of “Big
Rock Candy Mountain,” the an-
nual Junior Candy Sale will erupt
next Monday morning at 8 and
will continue through Friday at
4 p.m.
PROCEEDS from the sale will
be used to pay for the annual Jun-
ior-Senior Prom in May, which all
junior and senior students are in-
vited to attend.
Selling for 10 cents, the candy
will be “peddled’ by girls dressed
in costumes typical of the “moun-
tain,” and will be sold in the Stu-
dent Council booth before and af-
ter school and during the three
lunch periods.
HUNGRY, AREN'T YOU?—Using his most per-
suasive manners, Howard Cameron, senior, asks
Don Kuykendall, sophomore, to support the
Junior-Senior Prom through the annual money-
raising Junior Candy Sale, "Rock Candy Moun-
tain," which begins Monday in the cafeteria. Of-
fering sweets are Barbara Durham, Carolyn
McCulchan and Jan Rawlings. (Photo by Randy
Brown.)
BEGINNING Monday morning
and continuing throughout next
week, jingles — made up by a
committee headed by Billy Hor-
ton —- will be presented to encour-
age sophs, juniors and seniors to
support the candy sale.
Sandra James, Mary Matthews
Puppy ’, 'Editor’Join Forces To Plant 'Crooked Baskets
In hopes of preparing LHS stu-
dents for college life, seven “H”
classes — English 21-22, English
31-23, Biology 21-22, American
History 31-32, Algebra 31-32, Ge-
ometry 21-22 and Chemistry 31-32
— are now available. Next year
geometry will be dropped and sen-
ior English will possibly be added
to the “H” courses offered, if
enough seniors apply.
"AFTER HAVING taken “H”
junior English, we — Lynn Lang-
ston, Frank McWilliams and I —
tried to get an honors senior Eng-
lish going, but not enough people
were interested,” begins Rosie
Sandifer, senior. ‘H’ English gives
us a chance to be with the students
who really want to learn and
therefore we get more out of the
course than we normally would.
“All the students who are taking
honors English or have taken it
know that a senior honors class
would be beneficial to them.”
ALL HONORS classes have four
main goals, according to LHS
counselors. The courses are plan-
ned to afford more flexibility,
greater acceleration of subject
matter within the course, better
provision for independent study
and ability to communicate ideas
better. Quality of work rather
than quantity, along with oppor-
tunity for creativeness and imagi-
nation are primary objectives of
honors courses.
BY CYNTHIA HODGES
“Puppy dogs” and editors may
not seem to have very much in
common, unless they are Mary
Matthews and Sandra James,
Teen-of-the-Month and Club-Girl-
of-the-Month, respectively.
ACTUALLY, the two girls aren’t
involved in common activities, yet
both participate in several school
activities — Sandra is kept busy
by publications and Mary, involved
in the speech department.
“I suppose the only place that
Mary and I do anything together
is at church, where we both play
on the same basketball team,”
mentions Sandra.
"YOU REALLY can’t s a y we
play ‘together’,” retorts Mary,
“since Sandra is always teasing
me about the way I shoot free-
shots. Even if I do stand sideways
before I shoot, I do usually make
the basket.”
Besides finding time for basket-
ball, Sandra is co-editor of the
Westerner yearbook, a member of
NHS, Quill and Scroll vice-presi-
dent, FTA reporter, Senior Class
Council representative and Broad-
way Chyrch of Christ Youth Coun-
cil member, where she is also edi-
tor of the church’s newspaper.
MARY IS currently the co-
chairman of the decorations for
the Junior Candy Sale, co-head of
the Publications Committee, vice-
president of the Tri-Hi-Y City
Council and participates in “H”
English.
She also is a member of the All-
School Council, Y-Teens social
chairman, NHS and National For-
ensic League.
"THIS YEAR was the first time
I have played the role of a human
in plays production,” grins Mary.
“My ‘acting career’ first began as
an outhouse in the sophomore
Night Pep Rally skit. I rapidly
moved up to fill the part of Toto
in the ‘Wizard of Oz.’ In the jun-
ior skit for this year’s Night Pep
Rally, I was a pumpkiri, but final-
ly I ‘acted’ as a human in the
‘Triple Bill’.”
Serving as the Westerner co-
editor calls for many out-of-town
trips. Sandra has attended work-
shops the past two summers at
Texas A & M and in Denton last
December. As assistant editor last
year, Sandra traveled to Dallas to
view the annual before it was sent
to Lubbock in May.
"PUPPY DOGS" and editors us-
ually don’t have similar interests,
yet Sandra, while continuing her
publications duties, and Mary, as
she participates in debates, in the
future, may recall when a “puppy”
and editor were both February
honorees.
THE RIGHT WAY?—As Mary Matthews disdainfully looks on. San-
dra James demonstrates her form at the free-throw line. The two
girls, who play on the same basketball team at church, are Teen- and
Club-Girl-of-the-Month. (Photo by Randy Brown.)
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