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

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OUR CASTLE AAA HE CASTLE originated in the de- sire for a safe place in which to dwell and in which to store valu- able possessions. Here leaders gathered their forces about them and were prepared to protect their properties and to war upon their opponents. There is striking simil- arity in those castles of old and our own castle of today—Fairmont Senior High School. In this castle are stored the most precious possessions of the world—Char- acter, Knowledge, Service. Here, gathered under the ablest of leaders, are the forces to protect and increase those wealths, forces to assimilate them that they may be propagated and intensified throughout the domain, forces that annihilate all that is detrimental to them. In building a castle every advantage was taken of position. Sometimes a castle would be built upon almost inaccessible crags to insure against invaders, and al- though we have no need of mountains and moats, the situation of the castle has in- deed exerted an influence upon the un- conquerable spirit of its inhabitants. No heavy drawbridge spans a deep moat threatening invaders, but instead stone and rustic bridges span shallow streams, and tiny hills and valleys surround the fort. Just as King Arthur gathered about him the Youth of all countries to defend the ideals and the principles of his court and spread them to the rest of the world, so were we brought together by our su- periors to uphold the standards of the court of our own castle, to further its prin- ciples, and to attain all that toward which we have been striving.

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CONTENTS ADMINISTRATION CLASSES ORGANIZATION ATHLETICS FEATURES ADVERTISING

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“At times the spires and turrets halfway down Prick'd thro' the mist; at times the great gate shone Gareth and Lynette I Wi