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

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Maple I.eaves Muse! () wake once more! hirw rude so e'er tin Thai ventures o'er thy magic maze to stray: O wake once more! though scarce my skill command Some feeble echoing of thine earlier lay: Though harsh and faint and soon to die away. And all unworthy of thy nobler strain, Yet if one heart throb higher at its sway. The wizard note has not been touched in It is the aim of the 1925 “Maple Leaves” staff in this volume to perpetuate the atmos- phere of the actual school life of 1923-24 and to make that atmosphere the setting of our book; to reveal its aims and standards, its dignity and its greatness; to interpret the ideals of our school, its personality, and, at the same time, to express our own; to be a mirror for all sides of school; to record with pen and brush in a happy way the school life and deeds of F. H. S. for this year, whether in books or work or healthful play—all because Swiftly our pleasures glide away. Our hearts recall the distant day. hand vain. •'ill i A Drawn by

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 EE 1 EAVEy l-Jf'js l3airi SEPTEM BKK 10 (jCTOBF.R 26 NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER 23 qLGNP q Session begins Sophomore party East Side football game “Clark's Tour around the World” NOVEMBER 28 TO DECEMBER 1 T hanks giving holidays DECEMBER 8 Freshman party DECEMBER 14 Operetta—'In the Garden of the Shah” DECEMBER 20 TO JANUARY 7 Christmas holidays FEBRUARY 8 FEBRUARY 28 FEBRUARY 29 MARCH 7 MARCH IS MARCH 20 MARCH 28 APRIL 4 APRIL 12 APRIL 24 MAY 9 MAY 27 MAY 30 JUNE 2 Junior Dinner Dance Mardi Gras Monongahela Valley Tournament Marionettes State Tournament The Letter Men's Banquet District Literary Contest The Junior play Slate Literary Contest Dramatic Club play Orchestra Concert Senior Class play Session closes Commencement m Drawn by Paul Damson Eleven

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 AVEy g. % s- £eaI t'AROM where did our school seal come ? In ' answering this question we all take our hats off to Mr. Ensel Hawkins, a very popular member of our faculty. In thinking of a worthwhile project for mechanical drawing in the Spring of 1922, Mr. Hawkins decided to work out a seal for Fairmont High School. He began by gathering ideas from commercial stamps and labels on jars. Together with these and literature on the structure of seals, he used this idea for class study for about two weeks. Then he had six boys work out seals from their own original ideas, later drafting them into a best one. All then worked on one. Many worked out clever and attractive sketches but Chalmer Reich had the best. Mr. Hawkins, also worked out a seal of his own idea. Later he sent Chalmers and his own to the engravers, leaving it to their judgment as to which was the better. They chose that of Mr. Hawkins which is the one we have today. Mr. Hawkins then had seals made in blue and white, the school colors, and used them as merit stamps for work in his department. In 1923 Mr. Buckey decided it would be a good idea to adopt for the whole school, using it as a reward for exceptionally excellent written work. This was most appropriate, for the seal in itself with its “torch in the center of “F. H. S. might well mean the light or the intellect of the school and. too, that F. H. S. is a light and service to our community. This seal gives our school a mark of individuality and distinction that few- high schools can boast of. It is to Mr. Hawkins that we owe this. We commend him for starting such a worthwhile, constructive movement and ending it so splendidly. He, as in all his work in Fairmont High School, showed here a broad vision of use- fulness, in designing a seal so artistic and meaningful. In planning this book, the Maple Leaves staff dug into their minds for original ideas as to theme and finance. One autumn afternoon we hit upon the seal as full of possibilities. Here was our color scheme and motif for decorative purposes. And further, in taking the seal as the big idea for our book, we would make it more a part of us, we would bring Mr. Hawkins's idea into more prominence; and we would carry out in a very definite wav our Junior English Work-Shop slogan: The will to work for man. 1 9 £5 Thirteen