The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1951 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WESTERNER WORLD
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You Feeling Friendless ?
The Cure: Sportsmanship
Have you ever gone to some strange place and felt like you left all your fun
and friends at home? New people come to Lubbock Senior High school through-
out the year, and they, too, may feel as though they have quit living after leav-
ing their friends—but sportsmanship can cure that homesickness.
Here is how sportsmanship can cure “that friendless feeling.” Webster de-
fines sportsmanship as courteous relations, and courteous relations will bring
friendship and understanding. The recipe for these relations calls for you to
blend your personality with theirs by constant stirring with association.
The saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” does not always work
because new students don’t know how “the Romans do.” To explain this method
of doing things we need the possible, but not probable, example of John Doe.
John Doe was not accustomed to large buildings, double stairways and alter-
nating classes when he came to Lubbock Senior High school from Smallville
High; however, all of that had to be changed by some understanding student who
used the recipe to make John a “Roman citizen”.
Sportsmanship is the key word in our motto, but sportsmanship in
EVERYTHING is the key to happiness.
Permission Granted
Ask The Next Guy For Your
Test Answers; Here s Proof
“This changing world”—trite, but
true— even in the case of dictionaries.
Every word spoken and every edi-
torial written refers, directly or indi-
rectly, to the present state of world
affairs. . . (The following train of
thought, is no exception. The mean-
ings of the words constantly change
with , the times;: therefore, we should
study the dictionary.
We can never be too careful about
what we say or how we say it. Per-
haps if many of today’s leaders had
been a trifle more careful in selecting
their words, today’s world might be in
a different condition.
Naturally, we can blame many mis-
takes on the inconsistencies and irreg-
ularities of our language. However,
since few of us are capable of remak-
ing the English language, let’s learn to
use the one we have. It might come
in handy some time.
For instance, take the word TEST.
Webster gives “any critical trial” as
the definition. Now look up TRIAL.
What do you find? “Temptation.”
TEMPTATION is “to invite”, while
INVITE means “to ask”. ASK means
demand, which in turn means “to ask
for earnestly or authoritatively.”
We now have definite proof that ask-
ing your neighbor for the answer on a
test is fair. Don’t be afraid to use the
dictionary. Word study does have an
advantage in today’s changing world.
alo, its just T?fAr\
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Dates/\Doings/ and Details
by Jackie Smith
People are still talking about the
Y-Teen Sweetheart banquet, and it
will probably be “many moons” before
the girls stop talking about the beau-
tiful corsage Susie had, or that “simp-
ly divine” formal that Mary wore.
So many couples were at the ban-
quet that this reporter cannot hope to
mention them all, but some were Rex-
ell Smallin and John Harvey Austin;
Carolyn Taylor and Techsan Charles
Powell; Riidelle Thompson and Don
Reed; Faye Crowley and Buddy Hack-
field; Judy Mitchell and John Steen;
Joy Buntin and Pierce Buckner; Carol
Jean Ewing and Wayne Hackney.
Seen triple-dating at the State thea-
ter Saturday night were June Frank-
lin and Dayle Clark, Pat Abernathy
and Luther Clayborne, and Shirley
Chapman and Billy Harpole.
Senior cheerleader Neal Friets has
been inactive since a recent operation
on his nose. We assure you that his
current on-the-bench attitude is not
from choice.
Charis Pinkston and Dale Young
were banquet daters as were Mary
Batchler and Kenneth Jeffreys; Ann
Hintz and Wayne Ford; Carolyn Pope
and Wesley Curry.
Also enjoying the banquet were
Peggy Golden and Gene Hamilton;
Mary Akin and George Berry; Carol
Ham and James Greer.
Carl Ince and Kay Rogers were seen
together Friday night as were Mary
Beth Toles and Neil Vaughn.
More couples enjoying the Y-Teen
banquet were Irma Hopp and Craig
Morris; Joan Rooker and Allen Mc-
Bride; Verbie Bess Oldham and Gray
Lewis; Diane Honey and Dave Lar-
son; Kay Smith and Charles Holm-
quest.
Marion Hunt and Henry Stapleton
have decided to make it strictly
“steady.”
You may think your reporter has
banquet daters on the brain, but some
more couples were Jo Jackson and
Roy Johnson; Bette Jo Starnes and
Sammy Hallmark; Lola Anderson and
Jack Hensley; Delores Owen and Bob
Ford; Patricia Bright and Fred Currie;
Linda Yancy and Bill Ingram; La-
Vonne Griffin and Lewis Ward; Corky
Hudnall and Toe Davis.
Cole, Carrell, Caveness, Carl, Carter
And Cozby Comment On Courtesy
Though all Westerners agree that
COURTESY week is a “good idea,”
many disagree in the answers to the
question, “What specific COURTESY
should we emphasize during COUR-
TESY week?” All types of COURTE-
SY in the halls were especially stress-
ed as were COURTESY to teachers, to
new students, and on city busses.
Disagreeing with the idea that stu-
dents are most discourteous in the
halls between classes, Mary Catherine
Cole, a senior, things discourtesy “is
worse in classrooms than in the halls.”
Mary Carrell, a junior, and Jo El-
len Hicks and Gorge Guy, condoned
“running in or stopping to talk in the
halls between classes.”
“Consideration for other groups and
individuals should be stressed during
; COURTESY week, remarks Miss Edith
' Caveness, “After all, that’s what
.1 COURTESY is.”
While Carl Jones thinks COURTE-
SY to teachers is most important, Earl
Deitering, a senior, comments, that
“sometimes students in school aren’t
as COURTEOUS to new students as
they should be.”
Lyna Carter and Frances Roth,
think “boys could be more COURTE-
OUS to girls.”
“Making critical, derogatory, or cul-
ting statements about people whom
we do not even know more than cas-
ually is one of the most discourteous
things that either a student or adult
can do,” surmised Mrs. Dick Cozby.
Suggesting COURTESY on city
busses should be improved. Martha
Hobgood mentioned that “students
might be more eager to give seats to
older people when all' the seats are-
full.”
“I think COURTESY week’s a good
idea but it should be continued
throughout the year,” concluded Wal-
ter Jo Adams, a junior.
Signing In
Pictured above are three of the latest additions to
Mrs. R. B. Johnson, Mr. Maurice Fite, and Miss Ina Rolj
Paul Bowie.
Four New Teachers Adde
To Faculty This Semester
Four new faculty members are seen
around the halls of L. H. S. since the
beginning of the new semester. The
two ladies are Mrs. R. B. Johnson and
Miss Ina Rollins, and the two men are
Mr. Paul C. Bowie and Mr. Maurice
Fite.
The new typing teacher, who took
Mrs. A. B. Reese’s classes, is Mr. Paul
C. Bowie. He attended West Texas
State Teachers’ college and taught at
Draughon’s Business college previous
to his appointment here. Mr. Bowie
is married and has three sons.
Mr. Maurice Fite, who previously
taught at Levelland High school, is in
charge of Mr. Bill Floyd’s algebra and
geometry classes. He lives in Sun-
down and goes back and fourth each
day. Previous to his position at Lev-
elland, Mr. Fite taught 11 years at
Sundown. He is married and is the
father of four girls and one boy. Mr.
Fite received his B. B. degree at West
Texas State Teachers’ college at Can-
yon and is working on his M. S. de-
gree at Texas Technological college.
He is not only a math teacher, but he
has coached everything from tennis to
football; moreover he declares a love
for every kind of sports.
A veteran teacher of L. H. S. has re-
turned after six years absence. Mrs. R.
B. Johnson teaches Latin since the
retirement of Mrs. Novelle Newsom.
Previously, she taught Latin in L. H.
S. for 16 years. Mrs. Johnson’s spare
time is filled with taking care of her
husband and 13 year old son, who at-
tends J. T. Hutchinson Junion High
school. She attained her B. A. degree
at the University of Texas and her
M. A. degree at Texas Tech.
'Ptedex&Hf ‘TPltf&teruy
Mystery X was not identified last
week. This may have been due to the
fact that it was a little harder to guess
than usual, or because the papers were
late. Of course, we like to believe the
former.
At any rate, there have been some
rules set up about guessing Mystery X.
They are that guesses cannot be sub-
mitted until the bell for guidance
period has rung, when the papers are
delivered at guidance period. When
the papers are not to be picked up
until after 3:45. guesses cannot be sub-
mitted until then. This will give ev-
eryone a fairer chance to get their
guesses to room 137.
This re-run on “X5 is a hand belong-
ing to a senior girl who received her
diamond last semester, as we told you
last week. Additional clues are that
she has short brown hair and her fiance
is in the Air Force. Identify her and
win two free passes to the Circle
Drive-In.
Miss Ina Rollins, who took over Mr.
Carl Willingham’s classes, has taught
geometry and algebra for 10 years.
Preceding her arrivel in Lubbock, she
taught math in El Campa High school
which is located south of Houston.
Miss Rollins chose this school in order
to be nearer her sister who teaches in
Amarillo and because of the dry cli-
mate here. She received her degree
at Austin college at Sherman and has
attended the University of Colorado
four summers.
Havin' s4notMtL
by Bin Gordon
Want a good idea for a party?
The freshman class of Canyon
High school had a bowling party
where the only admission the
individual student had to pay
was rent on his shoes and the
class funds payed the rest of the
cost. Good trick, if you can do it.
* * *
Learning to play five new in-
struments in five months might
stump some people but not Phyl-
lis Logerberg, a talented soph-
omore of Salina High school in
Salina, Kansas.
* * *
The other day in Moscow, Sta-
lin stopped at the post office and
questioned the postmaster why
a stamp bearing his portrait had
not been in wide circulation. The
postmaster explained that they
didn't stick. Stalin took a stamp,
wet it, and pressed it on a paper.
They stick perfectly,” he said.
“Well, to tell the truth,” re-
plied the postmaster, “the public
keeps spitting on the wrong
side!”
Coronet Magazine
Famous last words: I’ll always
have lots of friends because peo-
ple can’t resist my overwhelm-
ing personality—.
Saturday Evening Post
Not very often will you find a
boy cooking his own goose, but
drop in on the boys’ homemak-
ing class of Waterloo High, Wa-
terloo, Iowa, and you’ll see 23
senior boys (including wrest-
lers) cooking (and eating) their
delectable dishes!
Safety Susie
$AFETy ZuZViAyf
L.AJP.D. Traffic Edu. Unit
“A Woman Who Looks in Her
Mirror While Driving Reflects
Poor Judgment.”
out e&iUMWion, sp
sportsmanship.-
WHAT WEEK IS IT?
A we recall, we once made the
statement in this column that there
are more “national weeks”, than 52.
The coming week should be local
proff—the Student council is spon-
soring Courtesy, and Mayor Whitside
has officially proclaimed Father-Son
week. At least they can’t be called >
“over-lapping.”
MORE FUN
Since the Y-Teen banquet is a thing
of the past, we know of many people\
who are breathing more normally . A
Westerner “mama” was recently heard
to exclaim, “I don’t see how you kids
will live through February with all
those parties and things/’ We will
undoubtedly survive, but we’re not
making any predictions in the grades
department.
IN MEMORY OF—
Mentioning those two great states-
men, George Washington and Abra-
ham Lincoln, who have birthdays this
month seems to be the current THING
to do. We have: nothing to offer here,-
but we might relate the observation of f
a very little boy who observed that
they both were “awful lucky men be-
cause they were both born on national
holidays.”
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CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
One of the most interesting people
we’ve met in a long time is “Professor
Elliot” who substituted for Mr. N. G.
Powell this week. He has a rather
unique outlook on life to say the
Least. “You students should just sit
down and practice thinking once in a
while,” he counsels. “Of course, you
might sprain something if you aren’t
accustomed to it. I wouldn't advise
that you try it oftener than once a
month, but after several years, there is
every possibility that you might like
it,” he says.
FROM EL PASO
We’re still hearing stories about “the .
wreck,” namely that accident involv-' '
ing Sam Hodge, Paul Schneider, and
Nelson Evans. There’s so little we can
say. We’re just glad that the out-
come was no worse. Nelson’s absence
will certainly be felt in our depart-
ment. His duties as Circulation man-
ager have been many and varied, in-
cluding the responsibility of distribu-
ting papers and running errands.
The Westerner World
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EDITORIAL STAFF
1 Editor ---------------------- Ruth Breazeale
News editors ------------- A1 Alschuler,
Shirley Cartwright ’
Sports editor ---------------- Ben West
Copy Editor ......... Bruce Hamilton N
Special reporters Walter Jo Adams,
Sam Camp, Shirley Chapman, Car-
ol Collins, Bill Gordon, Pat Har-
kleroad, Peggy Hay, Martha Hob-
good, Claynelle Pack, Jackie
Cub Reporters ______ Virginia Carter,
Joan Duncan, Franklin Greer,
George Guy, Juenetta Henderson,
Diane Honey, Corky Hudnall,
Bruce Martin, Pat Patrick, Mary
Jane Smith, Gailya Tonroy, Kay
Lynn Watson, Patricia Wester,
Marge Williams, Janet Yancv.
Photographers John Franklin
James Grace, Carl Hart, Rex Ver-
million
Cartoonists Bruce Hamilton.
Bruce Martin, Pat Patrick
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Managers Maurice Fawcett
Sandy Moore
Advertising Salesmen Faye Pruitt,
Joyce Walker, Maurice Fawcett,
Sandy Moore
Circulation Manager ..... -Nelson Evans
Assistant Jo Anne Lawson
Bookkeepers .... Roberta Hollingsworth
Neal Friets j
Typists ...... Ray Cox, Dot Schuler,
Hicy Tyler, Mickie Willis
Director of Publications, Mrs. Dick Cozby
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