Fairfax High School - Fare Fac Sampler Yearbook (Fairfax, VA)

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1945 ‘pAa-ty ' iecUet %6 supply room. However, as one looks back and remembers, it seems that ' the most important event was the dedication of the ' Wvgymnasium on February 4 1 940. Yet everybo A hen the new shop a id girls were added le?ed and the d r Siwfe $ Si. An auditorium and s proud in 1942 for the boys properly ten years lumbers 42. school’s ex- ording to his ich has been structive extra- ool. fore them, they will strive to make a better world of tomorrow, knowing that they have found here those things which give life direction — ideals, principles, knowledge and that they have left this school richer, better, wiser for having entered. No vision could be more magnificent than an institution of learning that moulds the very foundation for the infinite and inalien- able betterment of man. f rffrrrrfrf rn

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1936 — tfamjieA Somewhere in the past there was a vision — a day-dream built upon faith in the youth of coming generations and in the future of education — a day-dream having as its ultimate goal a great institution building sterling characters , developing leadership, and making for a scholarship that might be put to work in the world. For that vision — no longer a flimsy dream, but finding its embodi- ment in Fairfax HifPiKfitTflrh wr arc indeed grateful puzzling to anyonet ascertanT Tuch phase of this school has expanded to the greatest degree since the doors of Fairfax Ffigh School first opened. The annex was built in 1937 to take care of shop, home economics, and agriculture. In many ways during the past the school has improved and additions have been made: a graded athletic field, six new class rooms, and UJJJJJJJJJJJ

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W AR , like a great dark mist, de- scending on our country, came in all its horror, death and destruc- tion, to us over three years ago. Like a seem- ingly rank injustice, it has taken into its fold the cream of American youth; young men and women upon whom the future of America, representative of freedom and democracy for all, depends. The monster, in all its black glory, has taken its toll of Fairfax Ffigh School graduates. The Alumni in the Armed Forces number close to a thousand and most of the graduates pictured in this book will soon join them. Then too, there are many former students whose education has been interrupted by this war also serving our country. There are quite a few teachers whose careers have been interrupted to give their service in this fight for freedom. This is not a tribute just to the people whose pictures appear on these pages, but to every student and faculty member who are or have been in the armed forces. »