Douglas Southall Freeman High School - Historian Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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CURIOS FROM FOREIGN LANDS, placed in upstairs hall cases, attract interested Rebels during Language Emphasis Week. INTENT UPON HIS WORK, an art student with steady hand carves on a linoleum block. Rebels pass winter with dramas, Language Week With a few experimental forays, spring once again began coy preparations for her entrance. After weeks of chilly mornings, Rebels would awake to find dew xe- placing frost on the grass. They alternated sweaters with winter coats in their efforts to combat the muta- ble weather. DSF thespians resumed their drama activities as the Night of One - Act Plays approached. When the red curtains parted and the plays began, actors treated audi- ence to a variety of moods—the wistful poignancy cf A White Butterfly, the comic strangeness of Joey, the tragic tenderness of Romeo and Juliet. Hardly pausing for breath, energetic students fol- lowed the plays with Language Emphasis Week. To acquaint fellow Rebels with the customs and languages of other countries, members of language clubs decorated hall cases with displays, and they prepared European delicacies for after-school bake sales. At assembly pro- grams, Freemanites who studied Spanish, French, or Latin invited an interested audience to join the singing of songs in unfamiliar tongues; German students taught conversation in their skit showing the troubles of an ¢nglish-speaking student abroad. Classes continued at their normal pace since students had not yet caught spring fever. Seniors, however, were suffering from another equally wide-spread ail- ment, “‘senioritis.”” While exasperated teachers strug- gled to cope with this, their charges continued to dream of picnics and graduation.

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ee: UNEXPECTED HEAVY SNOWFALL BROUGHT WITH IT CLOSED SCHOOLS AND A HOLIDAY FOR DELIGHTED REBELS. “LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN” was the theme sophomores chose fo r decorations at their dance, first class-sponsored activity. WEARING HER SPARKLING CORONET, sophomore Evelyn Perham smiles as she hears her new title, FBLA Sweetheart.

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Es FINDING ROMEO DEAD, JULIET TEARFULLY BESEECHES THAT HE MAY HAVE LEFT A DROP OF POISON FOR H READY TO GO ON STAGE, Glen Shivel as Romeo listens to new instructions repeated by the lights technician, Brenda Stroud. SEEKING A LO REMEMBRANCE, a white butterfly, A Brown pleads with Leslie Dodd to help her in the search.