Fruita High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Fruita, CO)

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Year of the Wildcat: School Life Page 4 Wildcats in the Limelight .... 18 Sports 54 Organizations 98 Seniors 156 Juniors 174 2

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A Publication of Fruita High School Syd O'Connor Editor-in-chief Walden H. George Principal Charles Everett Assistant Principal David Cromie Publications Adviser THE Wildcat NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT

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Looking Back Autumn came, golden in the afternoon: winter's silver-blue nights followed as day piled upon day until the lilacs bloomed. Count-down! Forty-nine, forty-eight graduation, goodbyes, then summer. What happened as time ran swiftly through the land of the Wildcat in 1968? This record of a year attempts to stop time, to halt its rapid race through eterni- ty. and to examine in close perspective the intense vitality of an academic community caught up in a dead heat with the clock. It is a human record, filled, we hope, with the passion of living, with the joy of anticipa- tion, with excitement, relief, gratitude yes, even with boredom and great, bound- less sorrow. We were never coldly placid: we were not content; we were never re- stricted by inertia. In short, we lived! And we reached for those impossible stars. That is worth telling about. What were they like, those days of fire and ice? We of the Wildcat staff have tried to preserve the hours honestly, because it is important to tell it like it was, baby. We were there when band and Pep Club uniforms shrank in Rifle, when Mr. John Lemcke prodded Sharon Myers to the blackboard with, What's the matter, got a hole in your dress? We were there when Jeri Andersen missed her chair at play practice and when Norman Vincent blew his cork in chemis- try. We focused on the laughter and the agony as Wildcats reached for impossible stars and were amazed to find achievement Index .............................232 3