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

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(We witJi OUR SCHOOL Perhaps one of the most beauti- ful and outstanding schools in Marion County today is Fairmont Senior High School, which is lo- cated on a lovely, wooded campus of eleven acres in Loop Park. Inside the building, in the center of the front entrance hall, stands an impressive statue of Abraham Lincoln. There are also large trophy cases which contain the various trophies that our school has won throughout the years. Our school has many modern fa- cilities and is well-equipped with twenty-three rooms and four pro- jection rooms. It has an auditor- ium which seats 1100, a library with over 4000 volumes, and a lit- tle theatre. There is a gymnasium for both boys and girls, a large home economics department, a commercial department, and a boy’s shop which includes mechani- cal drawing, wood-working, auto- mechanics and building trades. Our curriculum is varied with three courses of study: Commer- cial, Classical and College Prepar- atory. Athletics are promoted through the football, basketball, baseball, wrestling and track teams. A wide selection of activities and clubs are sponsored throughout the year. Among the various types of clubs are: foreign language, speech, dramatics, religious and music clubs. There are also clubs for scholarship, commercial and athletic achievement, and school spirit. The Student Government and the Key and Keyette Clubs provide projects and activities for the welfare of our school. And of course there is the band and ma- jorettes.