Fairmont High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

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AthlrtuH Two weeks after school started in tin new High School building flier was a meeting of the students of (lie school for (In purpose of forming an Athletic Associationi. All the boys mid girls in the school were asked to join this associa- tion and a yearly assessenint of fifty cents |K r member was mad . At the first meeting of the Association the following officers were elected: President - - - -.................Beryl Crow I Secretary.......................Fanny Robinson Treasurer.........................(‘lay Amos BOARD OF DIRECTORS Malissa Williams Calli Frey Ruth Merrifield Mary Reitz A. Frank Prichard Robert McCoy Carter Fleming Ernest Bell After the newly elected officers had assumed their various duties a motion was made by Mr. Arthur Frey that tin orange and black, which had been the colors of the Fair- mont High School ever since it had started. Ik changed. There was great opposition to this motion made by the “ring. with Ernest Bell and Robert McCoy at its head. After a heated discussion the motion carried by three votes and thus in tin first election the “ring was defeated, but let in say right here that this was the only time that it has suffer ! defeat. After this blue and white were chosen as colors of the High School. Tin Board of Education was not able to furnish the gymnasium of the High School, and so it was decided by the Athletic Association that any money made by athletics should be used for this purpose, and at the end of the year tin Treasurer reported that from foot ball, basket ball, base ball ami dues In had received fifty dollars ami this sum was increased to sixty-five dollars by the liberal donation of Mr. T. .1. Humphreys, and some very nice apparatus was pur- chased. This year great interest lias been shown in track work and many High School boys have liecome experts in this line of athletics. A large track meet will Ik held in Fairmont on May Hi. 1008. Fairmont High School. Morgantown High School, ('larksburg High School. Grafton High School and Mannington High School will all have representatives at this meet. OFFICERS. 1907-08 President.......................Ernest Bell Secretary.......................Cal lie Frey Treasurer...................T. J. Humphreys BOARD OF DIRECTORS Malissa Williams Mary Reitz Mary Nuzum Cal lie Frey Fred Heintzleman A. Frank Prichard Carter Fleming Robert McCoy