Fairview High School - Challenge Yearbook (Fairview, PA)

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May, Page Seventeen Twsllman Glass . . . llllll A Front Row-left to right-L. Plautz, M. Ifischer. S. linhin, 13, llanr, A, Hetlyer. M. Hlltcliu, M, Coch- ran, H. Barker, B. Dushole, A. Merritt. Second Row-Miss Black, K. Ruhl. IL. I-'arnl.ain, 1.2. Ht.-rlivol, D. Light, M. Barron, D. Kruse, A. Hinkle, H, McCray. Ii' Lashnian. G. Ns-wlon. Top llow-D. Coughlin, R. Erven. H. XYeiss, R. Muller, R. Munch. H. Miller, O. Place. C. Stunlz, L, Pittle, R. Winnie, H. Ifeisler and C. Pogson. FRESHM'AN CLASS HISTORY Thirty-four of us entered our new alma mater very eagerly yet very, very quietly in the fall of 1935. Since then, the members of our class have come and gone until we have only twenty-eight left. Gloria Herbol served as class chairman for the first few weeks-un- til we got better acquainted with each other- and then we elected these class officers: Sylvia Rubin, Presidentg Ralph McCray, Vice-Presi- dentg and Richard Cassell, Secretary-Treasur- er. The last named officer soon departed to fill a bigger office-that of husband-and we elected Marcia Cochran, Secretary, and Gloria Herbol, Treasurer, in his place. We had to take it and grin when the sopho- mores entered their second childhood and start- ed to play initiation. The comedy lasted only one day, however, followed by a party which put us in pretty low spirits. We recovered gradually and were able to repay the sopho- mores for their trouble with the usual Hallow- e'en party. As a class motto we selected Not on the heights, but climbingng and our class colo1's a1'e blue and silver. As freshmen we are too modest, of course, to claim any wonder- ful or startling achievements so far. But un- der the leadership of cur officers for the Sopho- more year-Marcia Cochran, Gladys Baur, Oliver Place and Sylvia Rubin-we are look- ing- forward to the future. We sincerely hope that all our members will return to help us make our contribution to Fairview High a val- uable and lasting one.

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Page Sixteen THE CHALLENGE May, 1936 goplaomcfze Lloyd Allen Arlene Anderson John Bardsley Phil Baskin Russell Bogart Helen Brown Robert Cochran Edward Cohen Isabel Edwards Irwin Fall Wilma Furber 816255 . . . CLASS ROLL Doris Gruhbs Elsie Gustafson Helen Hartley Marcella Hippeli Edith Isaac Charlotte Kruse Irene Leffler Robert Miller Elizabeth Muller Herman Niebauer Kenneth Osterberg Doris Pieper David Schwartz Alton Skelly Virginia Stuntz Pearl Vogt Wilbert von Treptow Betty Walker Gladys Walter Leroy Weislogel SOPI-IOMORE CLASS HISTORY On September 3, 1934, we-a group cf able. peppy, intellectual, but very modest freshmen -entered Fairview High, eager and ready to take our places in high school life. The officers elected were: Arlene Anderson, President, Russell Bogart, Vice-President: Phil Baskin, Secretary, and Betty Walker, Treasurer. Quick- ly overthrowing the effects of the initiation given by the sophomores to dampen our spirits. we gave a Hallowelen party in their honor. With characteristic initiative fahemlj we set to work choosing our class colors, a pennant, and a motto. The appropriate saying, t'Out of the harbor into deep channels , was written on our blue and gold pennant. Our literary ability was proved when we emerged as victors in the annual literary contest. To fill our coffers, we staged a series of skating parties which were very successful. During the second semester, we did settle down to serious study, and we were well rewarded by the scholarship plaque. In preparation for our' sophomore year, we chose as class officers: Marcella Hippelli, Pres- ident, Irwin Fall. Vice-Presidentg Phil Baskin, Secretaryg and Kenneth Osterburg, Treasurer. When we first appeared in school as sopho- mores, we were admittedly both larger and wiserg and gravely we viewed the task that was before us-the education, or initiation, of the green freshies. They, like good sports, in- vited us to attend their Hallowe'en party. Soon December appeared on the calendar, and with it came the literary contest. We almost re- peated the conquest of the year before, but by a very minute margin the seniors denied us that privilege. Time seemed to fly, and here it is the month of May. For the third time, we have elected officers. Those who will serve us during our junior year are: Phil Baskin, President, Alton Skelley, Vice-President: Eliz- abeth Muller, Secretaryg and Doris Pieper, Treasurer. It is with a feeling of sadness that We look back on our first two high school years. Our tasks were fewg our enjoyment greatg and we 1'eceived a good share of the honors to be had. We look forward with eagerness and joyful anticipation. We hope to set down in the annals of our class many colorful achievements,

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Page Eighteen THE CHALLENGE e May, .1936 The Present High School Building THE NEW GYMNASIUM AND AUDITORIUM Since 1927 we've been patiently awaiting the day when we'd have the use of a gymnas- ium of our own in which we could have the same opportunities and advantages as the neighboring schools. At last, if our eyes aren't deceiving us, we are assured of a gym- nasium which is to be as good as any of those around us. Since December, we've been Watching the slow but sure progress of this project. We can't blame the slow progress on the workmen. because King North Wind and Dame Snow held the work back a great deal. After a false alarm about the day the project was to begin, we had orders to park our cars in the road instead of in the driveway: and the workmen finally arrived. There was much hammering of stakes and tying of strings to outline the foundations. The first really ex- citing sign of progress was the giant steam shovel. We never tired of watching the shovel claw into the earth and carry large buckets of dirt to the trucks. And steam shovels seemed much more interesting than class work! Bags of cement and piles of sand and gravel next appeared in our back yard-athletic field to you-and with the building of frames and the pouring of cement for the foundations, it looked as if something worthwhile was being done. But not until the window and door frames were set up did this strangely shaped hole in the ground begin to look like a build- ing that we could really use. For a few days before they got the driveway cindered, the heavy trucks wallowed in oozy mud and spent most of the time getting stuck. Then steel girders were stretched out on the grass, and piles of bricks and tile were unloaded. We marveled that they could dump bricks off the trucks and have them land in neat rows in- stead of all in a heap. We spent all the time we could spare-and some we couldn't-from one whole day watch- ing them unload the big cement blocks for the entrance. They had to use inclines and rollers and plenty of muscles to get those in place. But some of the smaller blocks were laid in rows on the grassg and the boys called the area the graveyard , and walked around during the noon hour picking out their own tombstones. As we write this, the brickwork stands six feet high along one wall, and We are all anx- iously anticipating the day when the gym is entirely finished. And every student in high school is grateful for the long hours which the members of the school board have devoted to finding ways and means, to interviewing sales- men, and to perfecting plans. Perhaps we should also thank those nameless taxpayers whose money furnished the federal aid which made the project possible. Certainly those of us who have worked on plays and operettas in the basement auditorium, and those of us who have practiced basketball in an icy barn or taken showers next to the coal bin will appre- ciate the new gymnasium to the fullest extent.