December 9, 2019
Like students in 2019, TFS editors in 1971 worried about declining school spirit.
It seems as though LFHS in 1973 struggled with their level as school spirit, just as LFHS does in 2019. They, too, were told that high school would be the best four years of their lives.
The homecoming dance had low attendance, just as it does now. In an article, “The Decline of School Dances,” Toni Langdon ‘72 says, “The spirit is gone. People just don’t think that it is the thing to do.”
In a separate letter to the editor, Tootsie Flambeau mocks the LFHS rally song, whose lyrics sing, “Cheer, Cheer for Lake Forest High School, whose spirit never dies.”
Betsy Connolly, the writer of “Where Has All the Spirit Gone…”wrote that it was the civic duty of the student body to be more spirited; she argued that Lake Forest had provided them with an incredible high school that everyone should support.
Perhaps the students of today can take note of this mindset…
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