WI-PA-HI-SC dated Easter, 1959, was made available to us by Linda Schmidt Rhodes. Thanks for sharing!
 
   To those of us who have been around Winter Park High any length of time, this year has truly been a source of joy and inspiration, for this year saw the coming of taste to a Senior Class. Many of the Senior classes to graduate from Winter Park have been but dormant, contributing nothing to the school, but this year's beauty-minded Seniors have never ceased to do their part to enhance the campus with bits of joy and pulchritude. When else in the history of the school has there been a class with the imagination and taste to bring statues to beautify the school? Winter Park High's statue collection was, during its brief, glorious existence, a great center of attention. People came from far and wide to see the only high school in Central Florida with its own art collection. Upon the roof was a lovely, life-sized, scarlet reindeer, who, we were told, was still recovering from the embarrassment encountered when Santa nearly hit an airplane (pre-Rudolf), a black-and-white penguin, named Willie, who repeated over and over again, "Smoke Cools," a dwarf who sat upon a stool and viewed the world with the interest of a P.A.D. student, and a pair of contortionists, whose appearance let to the downfall of the collection. It was truly a bad day when those of poor taste and apparently no sense of humor, ordered the collection removed.
     This year's Senior Class was also the first class to introduce the fine old art of boat racing to the school's curriculum. The admission to this sport is free, and all one has to do is look in the direction of the gym after school and see the Senior		 amphibians rush up the WPHS River. This is a hazardous sport, since sandbars are frequent, and many are made of quicksand; more than one of these sturdy crafts has been lost. Fortunately, the school Admiral has a contract with the Andy Ahik Deep Sea Salvage Company, and more than once has this fearless seaman ventured into the depths of the WPHS River to help some Senior in distress.
    It shall be a sad day indeed when the Class of '59 leaves WPHS; but who know? Maybe a priceless heritage has been left the school!! Maybe the Statue Collection will return, and maybe, maybe, mind you, the River may be dredged and declared a navigable waterway.
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