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

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=: PLAYERS ARE TENSE, but fans erupt into jubilation at the WAITING AND WONDERING, varsity cheerers and mascot DSF basketball team’s exciting contest with Thomas Jefferson. exchange encouragement while Cheer Rally judges deliberate. AFTER A PEP RALLY, STUDENTS, RETURNING TO THEIR AFTERNOON CLASSES, POUR THROUGH THE HALLS.

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AT THE MERCY OF THE PIRATES, MICHAEL, JOHN, AND THE LOST BOYS CONTEMPLATE THEIR UNHAPPY FATE. A WICKED CAPTAIN HOOK (Glen Shivel) reveals to first mate Smee (Joe Bobb) his dire plan of capturing his nemesis, Pan. Seniors invite audience into Never Never Land Warm days cooled and long days shortened into the last weeks of autumn. Afternoons of waning sunlight found the auditorium full of students working on DSF’s senior play. At the performance, players took a delighted audience on a magic trip to Never Never Land, home of Peter Pan. Here lived the Lost Boys, pirates, Indians, and others characters in Sir James Barrie’s classic. Agnes Brown starred as Peter, the boy who wanted never to grow up; Glen Shivel portrayed the arch-fiend, Captain Hook. Included in the cast were Ginny Childrey, Wendy; Anne Askew, John; Barbara Sweeney, Michael; Barbara Post, Nana; Betty Garner, Mrs, Darling;Rodney Smith, Mr. Darling; Joe Bobb, Smee; and Linda Broyles, Tiger Lily. Christmas holidays came as a welcome interlude in academic life. When the holiday season was over, however, the excitement of basketball caught Rebels up in a whirl of games and pep rallies. During long hours after classes, the front hall echoed with the shouts of spirited varsity cheerers as they practiced for the approaching Cheer Rally. Entering a cheer and an original song, the girls won the gleaming bronze first prize trophy. As the end of January arrived, gay students gradu- ally became quieter and more serious. Teachers began their mid-year reviews to recall to student’s minds work done in September. Then the first day of exams, for so long a nebulous concern, became a reality.

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Snowstorm brings early second semester holiday Exams over, Rebels entered enthusiastically into their second - semester activities. With fresh energy they cheered at Saturday wrestling matches and at- tacked new assignments. As Valentine’s Day approached, FBLA members be- gan planning for their traditional Sweetheart Dance. Giving the cafeteria a romantic mood, they turned bright red cupids loose to flit among red and white hearts and streamers. During a lull in the Lo-jos’ music, couples saw sophomore Evelyn Perham crowned DSF Sweetheart. Interrupting the orderly progression of events came “snow days.” Rebels greeted the swirling white crys- tals with mixed feelings—delight at the prospect of a surprise holiday and despair at the thought of days to be made up. The first emotion triumphed when a voice announcing that school would close early came through the public address system. Students merrily thronged the parking lot to clean snow off windshields and to dodge a few stray snowballs. The “midnight sun” shone in the gym as sophomores danced at their first class-sponsored fete. After choos- ing their theme, “The Land of the Midnight Sun,” they decked the walls and ceiling with sparkling silver suns and crepe paper streamers. In senior homerooms the time of measuring for caps and gowns and ordering calling cards was at hand. SPECTATORS HOLD THEIR BREATH while a Rebel wrestler With it came the realization that graduation was not struggles to maintain his top position over a wriggling opponent. so distant after all. JOURNALISM STUDENTS STUDY MECHANICAL MAKE-UP OF A NEWSPAPER. BEFORE OFFERING CRITICISMS.