Fairview High School - Challenge Yearbook (Fairview, PA)

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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.

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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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May, page Nineteen Qtliletics . . . X, l X r I 41. . .1- 'iff 'Q- Front Row-left to right-C. Pogson, R. Mcllruy, R. Muller. D. Schwartz, K. OSteI'ljrur,g, O, Place, Q IP PB Bdl EL1o1dPB 'lLXY'lellH11dan -ecom tow- .. Ogart, J. ar s ey, . 901 , .. arron lcaptafln , . V 'EIS og' , . . 0 an , d L, Pittle. Top Iiow-A. Rubin lassistant manage-rl. H. XYalter. H. Cassell, U. Gruluhs, A, Sl-zelly, M. East, H. Erven, L. von Treptow :manage-rr, and Coach Mooore. FOOTBALL The.1935 football picture held a gloomy as- pect as the coach sounded the first call for candidates. We had only five lettermen- back this year: Leopold, Holland, Barron, Weislogel and Pittleg and because of the fact that our entire line had graduated, things looked al- most hopeless. But these gaps were filled quickly with good looking material, and by the day of our first game we had worked up a team that had only one weakness-inexperi- ence. Through the first part of the season the team surprised everyone Qincluding Mr. Moore, I thinkj in that it suffered no big set- backs. As the middle of the season approached, we found that we not only had a good defensive combination, but that the inexperienced fellows, with a few games behind them, had rounded the team into a smooth scoring machine. The following schedule is the story of grid warfare for 1935: Date Team Fvw. Opp. Sept. 7--Alumni ...........,.. 6 0 Sept. 14--North East ...... 6 12 Sept. 21-Academy Reserves ..... 6 6 Sept. 28-West Millcreek ...... 2 18 Oct. 5a-Harborcreek ........... 21 0 Oct. 17-McKean .............., 34 6 Oct. 26-Wattsburg ...... 40 O Nov. 3-Edinboro .... 22 7 Nov. 10-Girard ...... 7 26 Totals ........................................ 145 75 From this two things stand out: Fairview was the only team to score on the champion- ship Millcreek eleveng and we were the high scoring team in the County Conference. Looking at the schedule we find that the team turned in a remarkable number of wins considering the fact that we started from scratch. We opened the official season at North East after taking the measure of a slightly disor- ganized Alumni team, 6 to 0. North East man- aged to squeeze out a 12-6 win, though most Fairviewites still think we had the best team. Then after playing to a tie with a tough Acad- emy Reserve outfit, we went down to Mill- creek and got buried in the mud. CWe were