I want to thank Dorothy Topolanek Humphrey (SLHS '48) for letting me scan this issue of the SLHS student newspaper, Alligator Splash. (It was the successor to Campus Chatter published earlier in the school's history.)
You'll see they had a severe ice storm, and the band couldn't march in the Houston Rodeo Parade due to inclement weather. Illnesses hit the elementary grades, and Ellen Pausewang won the D.A.R. citizenship award. I almost forgot -- Governor Buford Jester visited the prison farm that week.
