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

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Active Counseling Staff Serves Student Needs Lillian Armstrong Shirley Draper Richard Claypool When an individual became lost in the crowd; when a personal problem became an impersonal hole punched in a card, the guidance department responded. Somehow guidance managed to retain those intrinsic personal qualities so necessary and yet so exclusive under the demands of efficiency. The long hours and special care afforded by guidance this year proved to be an incalcuable service to the school and its students, for which there is not repayment but appreciation. Involvement. . . in a society of cold steel and disillusioned people one who truly cares is indeed the hope of all Virginia Switzer Velma Dawson Maezene Walker 17

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In one corner stood the new ad¬ ministration: wary, anxious, optimistic. The administration shifted its weight, looked around, began to feel at home, and im¬ patiently waited. The student body con¬ sidered the rumors, made speculations, and impatiently waited. The bell sounded; both sides reluctantly approached, inspected each other, and re¬ flected a nervous enthusiasm. They became acquainted. They became friends striving toward a common goal: awareness through a common bond, en¬ thusiasm. Concentration on new ideas was foremost. The module schedule plan, being readied for the future, was foreshadowed by changes in the bell system. There was a new emphasis placed on frankness and accessibility con¬ cerning all school activities from plays to dances. A strong bond was forged between the students and the administration through mutual respect. In 1968-69, the school found within itself the cooperation and friendship needed to overcome unfamiliarity and trial, and went on to form ties and responses that were in¬ separable from our awareness, inseparable from our uniqueness, and inseparable from our school. Administration Sparks Flame Of Student Achievement Michael Wade A wise man can effect eternity for he never knows where his influence stops James Manning 16

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Secretaries Undaunted By Deluge Of Paperwork If there were no passes, absentee sheets, tardy sheets, schedules, announcements, requisitions, invoices, check-in forms, complaints, orders, appointments, or students, the job afforded to the secretaries would be immensely easier. However, all of these, and many more, were unfor¬ tunately necessary and frustratingly prolific. The abundance of paperwork and redtape that filled the days paraded in endless procession over the desks and in triplicate through the typewriters. The days wore on, the pencil leads broke, the typewriter ribbons snapped, the neat piles of forms that were in alphabetical order were strewn all over the school, and the telephone lines filled up. Then the four o ' clock bell rang and brought with it sighs of relief and weary smiles.