Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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if ft? ENGLISH Back Row: Ray, Newby, Morrison, Lichel, Mills, Heath. Front Row: Goddard, Stromberger, Bell, Carse Baxter, Halgren, Garton. f To create versatility in the use of the mother-tongue, the English teachers valiantly put grammar rules through their paces. For those bitten with the writing bug, there is a Creative Writing course, while future thespians may enroll in the Drama Classes, With glee clubs soulfully harmonizing, and paintebespattered students rushing madly around, the Music and Art Departments are always in a typically artistic confusion. Meanwhile, with clattering presses printing the Gazette, and machinery humming, the Mechanic Arts Department carries on. MUSIC, ART, MECHANIC ARTS son, Rice, Burk, Swett Front Row: Kurvers, Aid Bultman. ENGLISH MECHANIC ARTS MUSIC, ART l3 Back Row: Corvill, Gustave- Odgard, McLaughlin, Bowers, l 4,4

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COMMERCIAL AND HOME ECONOMICS ,W enport. SOCIAL STUDIES Back Row: Heil, Summer- hays, Underwood, Dunkerley, Schulhof. Front Row: White, Wood, Moore, Peterson. COMMERCIAL AND HOME ECONOMICS SOCIAL STUDIES I2 To save future husbands from being served burnt-offerings and the embarrassment of going buttonless, is the mission of the Home Economics Department. To the click ot typewriters and the rattle of rnimeographs, the up-to-date Commercial Department speeds along. Teaching the theory as well as the practice ot democratic gov- ernment is one of the aims of Social Studies teachers. Students may discuss their own plans tor the solving of world problems and may learn a little about the mechanics ot their own country's government. Back Row: Williams, Part- ridge, Moore, Keyes, McDon- ald, Backer. Front Row: Eberts, Meyers, Colville, Dave

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I R ASSE R Q Hia I4 TUDENTS! THEY ARE THE GREATEST PART OF ANY SCHOOL . . . THEY ARE TODAY . . , THEY ARE TOMORROW , . . STUDENT AFFAIRS AT FAIRFAX ARE CONDUCTED BY A WELL-DEVELOPED SYSTEM OF STUDENT GOVERNMENT. THERE ARE THE ASSIZE COURTS, THE VARIOUS COMMIS- SIONERS, THE COLONIAL COUNCIL, AND MANY OTHERS WHO WORK UNCEASINGLY TO KEEP FAIRFAX STANDARDS EVER HIGH. THERE ARE THE HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS- KNIGHTS, ALPHAS, SERVITORS, EPHEBIANSQ THERE ARE THE ACHIEVEMENT SOCIETIES-PROMETHEANS, GUILDERSg AND THERE IS, LARGEST OF ALL-THE STUDENT BODY ITSELF.