Fairmont Public School - Tiger Yearbook (Fairmont, NE)

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BACCALAUREATE Processional Sunday May 18, 1947 Invocation- - - Solo- - - - - - Sermon- - - - - I Heard a Forest Praying- - - -Girls' Glee Club Benediction- - Recessional COMMENCEMENT Processional Friday May 23, 1947 Invocation- - - Father of Waters- -------- Clarinet Duet Salutatory Valedictory Climbin' Up The Mountain- - - - - Boys' Octette Address- ---------- -Dr. F. E. Henzlik Presentation of Class- - - - Miss Mary A. Stowe Class Sponsor Presentation of Diplomas- - - - -w. R. Dorrance President, Board of Education Benediction Rev. Wm. Richards

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SENIOR PICTURE DAY The morning of September 30, 1946, found the Seniors In front of the Haberman Studios in Hastings, Nebraska. They were shown to the dressing rooms where such remarks as: M0h, your hair looks fine, Let me borrow that eyelash curler a minute, Ina, and Is my tie correctly adjusted? could be heard. After each member of the class had posed before the camera and left his order with Mr. Haberman, the class went to the Clark Hotel where the private dining room was neserved for them. As it was necessary for all football players to be in Fairmont at 4:00, John Fishel, Bill Ely, Carl Justa, Virginia Thompson, and Anna Marie Goodrich left immediately after dinner. (Why didn't you tell us that girls could play football???) The remainder of the class divided into groups, some going on a shopping tour while a few at tended the afternoon show. Supper was eaten at Dale's Cafe. After a hilarious evening of sight-seeing and shopping the happy (?) group Journeyed home. The entire class expressed gratitude to Reverend Fishel, Gene Goodrich, and Neil Priefert who furnished transportation for the group. SENIOR CLASS PARTY An unusual party was held at the schoolhouse Friday evening, Feb- ruary 28, 1947. The seniors had not had a class party this year be- cause of the rush of other events. They had wanted a party to cele- brate the success of their play--and this was it. The girls prepared and served a supper in the Home Economics room. The menu consisted of Italian Spaghetti, Lemon Jello salad with mayonnaise, Parkerhouse rolls with home-made butter (yummy, yum 1), home-made ice cream (more yum), and coffee. The tables were tastefully arranged with a mirror centerpiece and candles. After all guests had found tnelr places at the table, Mr. Watkins served the spaghetti. He is exceptionally suited for such a task--and he looks good in an apron I After dinner three short films were shown in the school gym with Jerold Fishel at the controls. The films were a comedy, Tricky Troubles, a musical, Jose Iturbi, and a mystery-thriller, The Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe. The evening was finished with dancing in the Tiger Club Room. Special guests at the party were Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Ele- nora Murphy, Mr. Maurice Herrick, and Miss Ruth Hurst who helped the seniors on the night of their play. Everyone agreed that this was the finest party ever given by a class at Fairmont High School. The films at this party were shown on the projector for which the seniors contributed their play proceeds as their gift to the school. Hie following are six peculiar answers from a Civics Test: Rationalization is: (1) Everything rationed out equally. (2) Hiis has to do with each race thinking that it is better than other races. (3) Where one losea an arm and they have to teach him a new trade. (4) It is producing and raising a better breed of people. (5) The people you choose to associate with. (7) When a thing is below standard. . 14—

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FRESHMEN INITIATION On Friday, September the 13th, 1946, the Green Freshmen were tor- tured by the Mighty Seniors of 1947. At noon of that day the Greenies came dressed as Sad Sack and Gravel Gerty. The boys, as Sad Sack, wore baggy overalls and carried brooms,‘and the girls, as Gravel Gerty, wore long dresses and long, stringy hair. They were taken downtown on a platform wagon, paraded through main street, and then were left to walk back to school all by their lonesomes in the rain. At the doors of Fairmont High School the class of 1947 waited fop the Greenies to come back to more bad luck. They had to bow to every senior and say, nI'm a low-down green freshman.” After school the Freshmen went.home to await the dreadful evening that was to come. It seems that the Greenies and one sophomore didn't like Ina Belle Gillan for taking all their combs away. We had a very fine crowd at the evening party. The little Greenies were shocked. (After riding the horse, that is.) We then played Plnchy Winchy. I guess little Francis Jacobsen really enjoyed it. John Flshel tried to teach the Freshmen how to pin water on the wall, but each time he tried it he spilled some water down a Greenie's neck. We don't know whether Mr. Herrick was all wet when he came to the party, but when he went home he was. The Freshmen girls kneeled before the queen who turned out to be Robert Quick, to the surprise of the girls. We then auctioned the Freshles off for what they were worth: a broken shoestring, a pin, as eraser and other items of no special value. Margareut Ackerman bought Mr. Herrick for the small sum of a screw. For refreshments we had a sack lunch--a hamburger, cookies, and cokes. After the lunch we danced three dances. The people who bought the freshmen had to dance with them the first dance. Everyone danced the last two dances. The Freshmen went home with a lowly appreciation of the superior- ity of the Seniors. (The seniors hope so, anyway.) Our first school dance was a Halloween Masquerade Ball held on October 19, 1946. It was held in the ballroom of dear old F.H.S. The ballroom was decorated with a variety of colored streamers. The lights were ornamented with crepe paper and hung with streamers and toy lanterns. The first orchestration of the evening was the rhyth- mic number Chlu-Chlu. During intermission we unmasked and were surprised to find out who some of the ghosts and goblins were. There was a mixture of witches, southern ladies, Boris Karloff, and Lena the Hyena.