Fruita High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Fruita, CO)

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Dapper Roy Bailey, coaxed into a mock bat- tle with snowballing dead-eyes Donna Barbee and Juliannc Moore, finished last when the girls decided to put some spice in the ice. Roy excelled on the hardwood court and at playing ‘King of the Mountain’ with other leltermen for the stone thrones along the ramps. Senior Joe Al Carbajal and junior Joann Jac- quez dipped into the romance of February to splash a dazzling display of red and white hearts across the bulletin board in room 103. Within a week’s time, the board was crowded with chalked initials. A wistful Santa. Mr. Charles Everett, art- fully sagging with pillow packing, made the holiday season memorable with his gracious good humor. Voicing everyone's desire for snow, he wore a dismayed face when the ear- ly days of December remained, of all things, warm, sunny and dry! 15

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Atop a Paunch of Talked of Snow soggy it fell on the moaning's blues and our world sparkled Winter was a ball Pillows, Santa At last it came the snow, ankle deep and splatter- ing wet; it was beautiful! In a season gla cd frothy white. Fruita's winter was a big. red apple. It was the best of times. While Kenny Miller traced silent hearts across the campus with his toe. girls, armed with per- fumed lemons, matched squirt-for-squirt the water pistols wielded by sophomore badmen of the buses. Days began dark, wc kicked through the snow, be- tween the fog. and sighted on the eerie glow of streetlights laughing at our efforts to look awake. By 7:30. warmed with hallway chatter, we were off-and- running toward 3:05. toward gab sessions at the Can- dy Shoppe. Later there would be Science Club and a moonlight stroll—on the roof! Pep Club trips, class meetings, last-minute study as buses jogged schoolward these were the sugar coat- ing of our days. It was difficult to be at four activities simultaneously. Dennis Retherford, Jeanne Heiny. Gene Saw and Mickey Cox. the 'Just Us exponents of soul, crammed rehearsal into a hectic schedule preparing for Stunt Night. 14

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Overcast skies, rain, and wind presented no ob- stacle to seniors who piled into buses for the tra- ditional Sneak Day outing at Glcnwood Springs. Originally scheduled for the first week in May, Sneak Day finally arrived May 16 after several attempts to find the right day. Seniors Ignored Wintry Weather On Sneak Day Jared Thompson and Bob Garlitz, top, left, dominated the pool momentarily; then Ter- ry McLaughlin and Joe Al Carbajal, center, top, splashed away. That's Naomi Oliver on the slide; Mike Cole and Jerry Cox areal far left; Anne Mosher, Signa Larralde, Judy Smith, and Naomi. 16