The fight song is heard throughout the student body each week following the football team’s victory. Yet nobody really knows much about it.

“I don’t even know the lyrics. All I know is that the football team sings it after we win a game,” sophomore Marissa Graham said.

Even longtime staff members when asked about the fight song admitted to knowing little about the origin.

Dean Laura Clegg said that she had “never been asked” before.

Athletic Director Mr. Tim Burkhalter wasn’t sure about the origins earlier but said there was “a little blue book” about the history of LFHS, which likely contained information on the fight song. 

But he said nobody has seen the book in 20 years.

Mrs. Julie Crouch, a special education teacher and LFHS alum, said she sent an email to alumni dating back to the 1960’s simply trying to find out if anybody knows specifics about the fight song. 

Despite this outreach, nobody seems to know where, when, or how this song originated. 

“Our alumni association has been curious about the same thing,” Chief Communications Officer Melissa Oakley said. “We have been challenged to find any records or background within the district.” 

While he doesn’t know the origins, Lake Forest graduate and current staff member Mr. Glynn recalls the song unifying the study body.

“When I went to high school, we sang fight song after the football games as a tradition,” he said. “We did it for our fans and fellow students to stay unified, it was a meaningful tradition to the whole student body.”  

While some details appear to be lost, History Center Executive Director Mrs. Carol Summerfield had some answers from the center’s digital archive.

She says the fight song has been around since at least 1938, or about three years after the school opened. On February 7, 1943, the school song was featured over WGN radio when Principal Raymond Moore was head of LFHS. 

Knowing the lyrics was once mandatory.

In 1957, a test was given out to freshman class homerooms. The test consisted of information about various clubs, rules, courses and credits, sports and awards of the school. 

But on the flip side of the test, the Freshman were required to write out the lyrics to the school song. An award was then given to the homeroom with the highest scoring tests.