Forest Avenue High School - Forester Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Q .-.vw ,W Q .K J sg- 1 SECOND FLOOR CORRIDOR September of Nineteen Eighteen started Forest Avenue High School on her third year. The school was now making great progress and was becoming known as the best high school in Dallas. Nine hundred and seventy-one students were enrolled this year. On January lst, 1919, The Standard Debating Society, the most educa- tional organization in the school was formed. This society in the future was to make a great name for itself not only in Dallas, but over a large part of North Texas. Athletics during this year showed a great improvement over the pre- ceding years. In track, two Forest athletes won honors for themselves and for the school. These were Earle Wilson and Adolph Marder. The school year of 1919-20 was one of the most successful and brilliant years of Forest Avenue High School. Honors were won for Forest in practically every contest in which the school participated. Forest basket- ball and track teams, by winning State championships, became known all over Texas. The city declamation and debate contests, and the city inter- scholastic tennis tournament were won by students of this school. Fine showings were made in thelscholarship assemblies of this school during this year. e 1 E 5 lu li fl L TE A . Et 'Q sf ii 4, f, if ,1 l-f ., I , in-me ,,C.. ...au A 1 .fi , . vi lyfgvixi fl 5, -N , fs 4,1 in J'-E 234 A l N 4 v i l 11 we lx fi 5391! I fl, ,, ici 1 N.,-,J , - ,pw-f , 5 r.. it 2 5. li f. Ii if 25 ' Y' S wa. ., y 55 :HE 15 .L 'V F 'i . e1' . ,L , , . - . 1 - ' ' fi 0 r it 5 JI M -1 h 55,5 X ' 'IX . aw 1 ' f ., fi J, . J ' P ii - li, ,. - .,.-..,.. V: ' .. V ' 3 , .fmhmimbi I aa A .. Hg.

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1 LIBRARY In the first year many school activities were started. THE FORESTER, the official monthly paper of the school, was first published on October 15, 1916, and in May, 1917, the first ANNUAL was published. The following societies were organized during the flrst year: THE HAMILTON LITERARY SOCIETY, THE SENATE LITERARY SOCIETY, LA TERTULIA, MUSI- CAL DRAMATIC SOCIETY, THE RAPHAELITES, CRESTHA CLUB, THE SHAKESPEAREAN CLUB, and the GIRLS' GLEE CLUB. In this year, the school did not do much in athletics, but the material out for the various teams promised great things in the future. In the First scholarship assembly that was held, many students made an average of eighty or more in every subject. In May, 1917, 58 students graduated, 38 girls and 20 boys. The enrollment for the second year of Forest Avenue High School was 749, an increase of 33W over the first year. The school had by this time overcome all the hardships and trials usually attending the opening of a new school, and all things were progressing smoothly. . This year Forest had regular football, basketball, and baseball teams, arid all did fine work considering the fact that these were the first teams the school had put forth. Two new societies were formed this second year, these were the Forest Avenue High School Literary Society, and El Circulo Espanol. There was a noticeable increase in the participants of the scholarship assemblies this year, and their fine showing boosted considerably the standard of scholar- ship at Forest Avenue High School. v 10

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