The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1953 Page: 2 of 4
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THE WESTERNER WORLD
Friday, April 24, 1953
Senior Admits In English
Essay Love For Every
Detail Of Dust Storms9
Editors’ note: The following essay was written as a class assignment in English 42 (6) by Dan
Benson. Miss Glenys Honey is his teacher. The editors feel that Dan has almost made the South
Plains dust storm “a thing of beauty and a joy forever”.
I love every single part and detail of our great sandstorms. These magnificent
exhibitions of filth on the move are enough to stir the souls of men to poetry. One
has only to venture out into such tantrums of nature to be able to drink deeply ot
their dusty beauty.
Noble are the great sandstorms, obliterating the petty buildings and trees that
would stand in the way of the onslaught. What a thrill it is to look up into the
brown sky, letting the eyes and mouth fill with the good earth, and know that
Kansas is going by. We, the fortunate few, will never be subjected to the dulling
agony of an unceasingly blue sky. We may partake of all the hues of brown that
exist.
Even after the blast is over, we see fresh beauty in the pall of dust that lingers
over all of our world. As long as these splendid exhibitions of nature’s fury con-
tinue to blow, I shall certainly enjoy them.
(^fatten . . .
Winners of the P-TA Teaching scholarship are shown comparing notes on the
profession. They are, left to right, Sue Rucker, Sylvia Dietering, and Kay Squires.
Teaching Scholarship Winners
Give Opinions Of Profession
Someone once said that “March
comes in like a lamb, and goes out like
a lion.” This person was evidently en-
tirely ignorant of the fact that April,
May, June, July, August, September,
October, November December, Janu-
ary, and February come after March,
and that the West Texas lion (sand),
never ceases to roar. But, as Dan
Benson so aptly stated in his theme for
senior English: ‘It is inspiring to lift
your face, getting your eyes and mouth
Pm
by Sylvia Dietering
Posters are down, campaign speeches
have found their way into the trash,
rivalry is a thing of the past, and you
have mapped out your 1953-’54 school
year by electing student body officers
for next year.
There’s somehting about campaigns
that intrigues us all. Maybe it’s just
the fun of throwing some paint on a
posterboard, or planning a skit, or per-
haps it’s the tenseness of that moment
during sixth period when the PA blares
forth, “Your president for next year
is ......"
Congratulations and good luck to all
new officers! You are stepping into
the shoes of some of the finest leaders
of LHS in years past. It is a great
honor to be chosen a student body
leader, but it might also be considered
a greater challenge.
'I Told You So'
May we say “I told you so” to any-
one who questioned our “heavenly”
description of the Junior-Senior prom.
The prom was by far the most success-
ful affair, in our opinion, of the school
year. Decorations were truly profes-
sional, the musical selections were very
appropriate, and, best of all, the juniors
cleared a small profit, something that
hadn’t, until this year, been heard of.
Correction Made
In last week’s WESTERNER
WORLD, a story about Youths of the
Month stated erroneously that Buddy
Hill had been chosen March Youth of
the Month, while Don Elliot was se-
lected Youth of the Month for April.
Actually, since the Jaycee civic club
chooses the honored youth at the end
of the month instead of the beginnnig,
Buddy Hill would be chosen for Feb-
ruary, and Don for April.
LHS'ers In Competition
A number of LHS’ers will be in com-
petition with outstanding students
from all over the state this week end.
Spanish students are now in Austin at
the state Spanish meet where they are
competing in oral, essay, reading, and
musical contests. Regional contests of
Interscholastic league are being con-
ducted tomorrow at Texas Tech.
Here’s hoping that Lubbock High gets
its usual share of honors.
Today is the last day seniors can buy
tickets for the annual Senior banquet.
Highlights of the banquet will be the
reading of the class will and prophesy.
Committee members are now selling
the remaining tickets in the cafeteria
at $1 each. Where else could you get a
75-cent discount on a banquet?
by Shirley Marion
filled with earth, and to know that
Kansas is passing by.”
Though the Friday night air was
filled with pre-election tenseness (and
sand) the prom was all that most an-
ticipated and more! Dancing beneath
clouds of balloons in a truly transform-
ed cafeteria were Roberta Elliot and
Chuck Strehli, Diane Honey and Ben-
nett Davis, Arlette Arnett and Boone
Brackett, Suzanne Porter and Jimmy
Watson, Beverly Ellig and “Doak”
Walker, and Fred West and Johnanna
McFarland. Congratulations to Doro-
thy Kelly on being a most excellent
choice for Prom queen.
Fishing Trip Made
Fishing in Possum kingdom over the
week-end were Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wal-
den, their daughter, Patsy, and Robert
Rawls.
Jimmy Gafford, Jimmy Haynie,
Dicky Lowrey, Buddy Hill, and Jerry
Martin, all 1952 Westerner football
lettermen, are journeying to Texas
university to look over the situation
there.
A Poem:
There was a young man from Japan
Who said, “Write poetry—I can.”
But now, as you can see,
The trouble with me
Is I always get too many syllables in
the last sentence of every poem I write.
Limerick
A Limerick:
There was a salesman named Phips,
Who got married on one of his trips
To a widow named Block,
And he died of the shock
When he found there were six little
chips.
Last week-end daters included Patti
Light and Jimmy Crawford, Linda
Taylor and Sammy Garner, Ann
Weaver and Stanley Black, and Bar-
bara Sanders and Larry Byrd.
This week’s thought is, “Tolerance
consists of seeing certain things with
your heart instead of with your eyes”.
Out of the midst of three convincing
200-to-300-word themes on “Why I
Want to Be a Teacher,” came three
Lubbock High school PTA scholarship
winners for prospective teachers,
Sylvia Dietering, Sue Rucker, and Kay
Squires, seniors.
Sylvia, a budding English teacher,
explained that she wanted to be a
teacher because, “I consider it a great
service to the future generation, I like
to work with people, and I think the
profession offers the advantage of
working with intelligent people.”
Main Reason Given
“My main reason, however,” she
continued, “is that teaching is some-
thing that I’m deeply interested in and
in which I feel I would be happy.”
Sue, science instructor “to be”, wants
an opportunity to know many people,
to keep up with the latest science ad-
vancements, and to be a part of what
she considers the best profession today.
Therefore, she wants to become a
teacher.
Kay Explains Feelings
Kay explained her feelings toward
the profession by saying, “Teaching is
the parent of all other occupations, be-
cause in order to do anything, you havd
to be taught.”
“At first,” -the future commercial
studies teacher stated, “I wanted to be
a secretary or a stenographer, because
I really liked the work, but then I
thought how much more I would be
accomplishing if I taught others to do
the things in which I was most
interested.”
Each of the three girls was inspired
by a person, or persons, engaged in the
teaching profession. Sylvia, by teach-
ers whom she has respected and ad-
mired; Sut, by her parents, both ex-
teachers; and Kay, by Miss Bessie
Bullock, commercial studies teacher at
LHS.
Educational plans for Sylvia include
attending Texas Tech, majoring in
English and education until she
acquires her M.A. degree. She then
wants to begin her career of teaching
English in a secondary school, prefer-
ably a senior high.
Plans For M.A.
Two years majoring in science and
education in Texas Tech, finishing for
her M.A. degree in a Colorado college,
and finally, teaching general science
in a grade school, are the dreams of
Sue.
Kay will attend Texas Tech four
years, get a job teaching in a large
town, and return later to get her M.A.
degree.
In selecting her career, Kay kept
Dr. Sutton and his words of advice in
mind: “Be ashamed to die until you do
something for man”.
Coming
Events
April 25 - Regional Inler-
scholaslic League meet
Hi-Y overnight camp and
date picnic
April 27-FTA banquet
April 28-Senior banquet
April 30-Junior play
May 1-Junior play
May party
Paid assembly
May 2-Y-Teen retreat
Interscholaslic band con-
tests at Plainview
May 4-Junior high students
orientation
Inlerschool Press meeting
May 7, 8, 9-State Interschol-
astic League meet
May 9-Applied music per-
formance exams
May 11-Senior choir and or-
chestra performance
May 19-Recognition asserm?
bly, 8:45 a. m.
May 22-Spring football game
at Jones Stadium
Senior examinations
May 24-Commencement ser-
mon, 2:30 p. m. auditor-
ium
May 25-18 weeks' exams for
seniors
Regular exam schedule
starts
May 26-Senior trip to Carls-
bad
Nine weeks' exams
*7de
by Ann Weaver
Dear Readers,
Thank you very much for the many
nice compliments you paid last week’s
attempt. This one will be sort of an
anti-climax, however, since I didn’t
find very many funnies or short-lived
supplies of interesting happenings.
Clipper
— S-N-I-P —
At Austin High school, an oddly-
shoped lens was under discussion in a
physics class. ‘If it were flattened out,
what would you have?” inquired the
teacher.
“Broken glass,” was the reply.
AUSTIN MAROON
— S-N-I-P —
“Within two months, a total of nine
one-act plays, one three-act play, and
the Texas Interscholastic league con-
test play will highlight the spring
drama season,” announced the head of
the Amarillo High speech department.
In February this “little” school,
which oozes with talent, as seen by
their exchange assembly, presented the
annual operetta. Now, eleven dramatic
works are going to be presented to
various groups, or else have been.
Some of them are “The Little Foxes”,
“Joint Owners in Spain”, “Idylls of the
King”, “The Bathroom Door”, and vari-
ous other farces and dramas. Each one
has a different cost, with no repetition.
Oh, My!
— S-N-I-P —
Well, I’m getting desperate now (the
bell is about to ring): I’m having to
cut from another exchange column,
the one from THE WHEEL of McAllen,
Texas.
He tilted \
Her head j
And gazed j
Into her )
Expectant eyes. j
He looked at her
For a moment,
Then said quietly,
“I’m afraid that tooth will have to
come out.”
(Ysleta’s POW WOW)
Homework Isn’t
HOMEWORK ISN'T HUMAN
When your homework’s on the table
and you’ve yet to get it done,
And your books are spread before you
to be read through one by one,
And you’re thinking of your girlfriend,
and the ball game yesterday,
And the sight of your jalopy, and that
pretty double play:
Oh, it’s then the time you fellers aren’t
a-filled with so much zest,
With the risen moon to mock you—a
smiling, laughing pest,
For your books are spread before you
To be read through one by one,
And your homework’s on the table
And you’ve yet to get it done.
(Apologies to James Whitcomb Riley)
Some people say that homework is
necessary. These beings may be
divided into two distinct classes: teach-
ers and plain hypocrites. One can
recognize most of them by the fiendish
glint in their eyes, and by their atti-
tudes, which bode misguided kindness
or well-directed vengeance toward
their fellowmen.
At this point, kind reader, permit
me to express my views on the matter
of homework. As a student and a
considerate human being, I am defin-
itely against the evil. Let me first
point out how homework cannot pos-
sibly help one. I have thoroughly
investigated the problem and can see
no practical advantage whatsoever to
be gained. Does homework help one
in getting better grades? It would
make no difference if the labor were
abolished universally. Indeed, many
outstanding individuals have risen to
heights of distinction and prominence
without ever going to school, much less
doing homework. May the preceding
sentence bring hope and encourage-
ment to countless youths of today.
Does homework give to us any store
of practical knowledge? For the most
part, no! Who cares whether Louis
XVI (or was it XV?) died on the guil-
lotine on January 21, 1793 (or was it
January 12, 1937?) Who cares whether
the map on which we spent two hours
last night was absolutely correct? Be-
lieve me, it won’t be inscribed in the
Who’s Who or in Abou Ben Adhem’s
Golden Book.
Thus far, we have observed how the
practice of homework does the laborer
no good. I shall now attempt to illus-
trate how harm to health and mental
stability can be brought about by the
practice. The average high-school stu-
dent arrives home about 4 p. m. (a. m.
on week ends). Assuming that he will
get down to work immediately to fin-
ish his four-hour stretch of homework
(quite an assumption!), he may work
two hours until supper (6 p. m.) and
after supper from 7 to 9 p. m. There-
after, he is theoretically free to do
what he will. But the young body,
Y
Poetic LHS’er
by Homer Franklin
constantly growing and developing,
needs some sort of vigorous exercise.
Walking the dog at this hour will hard-
ly aid in the pupil’s physical develop-
ment. True, the high-school gym
period provides twenty minutes per
day for strenuous exercise, but even in
physical education there is homework
in cleaning gym suits. The plight of
those students engaged in after-school
activities is even more tragic, as can
easily be imagined.
The threat to the eyesight of the pu-
pil through homework is very serious.
The sight of a great number of stu-
dents is permanently impaired, and
many are forced to wear glasses. It
can be observed that during the earlier
days of our country, when there were
few schools and little homework, a
much smaller percentage of the popu-
lation was forced to wear spectacles
as compared to the number today.
You, kind reader, may read the statis-
tics; my eyes hurt.
If the victim of this article has been
able to bear with me thus far, I hope
he will observe my plan for the better-
ment of the world of youth, namely,
the complete abolishment of homework
and the removal of the word from the
English language. If my system is
adopted, Abraham Lincoln will have to
share his title with me—the Great
Emancipator. But what’s the use? I’ll
never see that day. I am in a wretched
physical condition and—I am—half-
dead trying — finish my — h-om-e-
w-o-r-k.
Congrats to the seniors for an ex-
cellent assembly! Your Uncle Wes
was proud of you for living up to the
high standards set for you by the jun-
iors and sophomores. Now you can
look forward to putting over the
Senior banquet Tuesday night! Also,
today is the day that you do most of
your deciding about the Senior gift.
This is an extremely important deci-
sion, since you want to get whatever
wil benefit LHS most as much as I
want you to. (Don’t tell the English
teachers that I ended that sentence
with a preposition.)
Juniors and sophs, in case you’re
weary of my dribble-drabble to seniors,
I thought I’d tell you that I think you
have a fine crew of officers for next
year. However, I’m counting on you
to back them up to the hilt. Believe
me, they won’t be able to accomplish
anything without your wholehearted
support.
You know, I’ll never cease being
thankful that my Mom, the Westerner
Spirit, has her influence in all phases
of our school life rather than in an
isolated few. I’m grateful that our
family motto, “Sportsmanship, then
Victory”, is practiced in all things,
whether it be elections, literary events,
track, baseball, tennis, golf, or what-
have-you. The constant evidencing of
this spirit has and will serve as the
best spring tonic your buddy, Wes
could possibly gurgle down.
The Westerner World
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Democracy, Sportsmanship,
Progress
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Co-Editors -------------------------------- Sylvia Dietering
. . _i... JoAnn Lawson
Associate Editor -------------------------- Gailya Tonroy
Sports Editor ................ Freda Brown
Exchange Editor ------------------------------- Ann Weaver
Feature Writers ----------------- Freda Brown
Shirley Marion
„ . , _ , Ann Weaver
Special Reporter ----------------------------------- Ann Wood
Joann Myridk
Buddy Hale
Bill Eger
Gloria Waller
Joan Pollard
Sondra Stone
Cub Reporters ------------------------- Betty Jo Stewart
Weldon Stephenson
Nona Gregg
Charda Pierce
Elaine Sherrod
Paula Smith
Sue Valentine
Photographers------------------Rolph Dean
James Greer
Joann Roberts
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ;_________________ John Wilkerson
Advertising Salesman______Von Dee Hamilton
Wallace McDaniel
Carroll Caddel
Peggy Clift
Circulation Manager ________________ Diane Honey
Asst. Circulation Manager____Lela Fern Thomas
Bookkeepers__________________ oanne Holmes
Joe Dale Bryan
Director of Publications <_____Mm. Diofc Cor.br
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