Cherry Creek High School - Yearbook (Englewood, CO)

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september 6, I955 . . . The building filled, was born a school, christened Cherry Creek. The first days were tense . Teachers . Students . Time passes, tension eases. Students E teachers. They begin to work with each other. Activities at first are conspicuously few. Interest lacks initiative. Vice versa . The football team wins a game and is discovered. Cheerleaders are elected. We vote for class officers and form a student council: student government. Clubs have their bare beginnings . An all-school show discovers unknown talent. Things begin to roll. t . ..,..,e-. Q ale if' .-1 If

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then... earth. They poked at the hill. They fed on the soft brown sod and left a gaping hole . More machines . They ate cement. They drank water. They convulsed in di- gestion. Ti.ck1ed, they spewed out concrete into the hole. More men. They planted girders in the liquid concrete . The girders took root and the concrete hardened. The first men came again, the dreamers . These men saw their dream with a steel glrder spine and a concrete base . A coat of brick and plaster and glass made a wall. The dreamers came later and saw a building complete. Twenty-four rooms, twelve offices, a theater, a gym, heating, electricity, lavatories, closets, lockers, an eight foot wide hall. The building stood empty. Then. . .

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At Christmas there is a dance. Assemblies entertain or inform every third week. Rallies jam-pack the air with Cherry Creek YELLS. School elections spark hot campaigns . More successful dances. The fight for accreditation. C-C hosts a district teachers meeting and the con- vention of the combined student councils of the A-A league . Harder and faster: color day, senior play, prom, graduation. . .