Fairview High School - Challenge Yearbook (Fairview, PA)

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Dec. Dec. Dec. lan. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Ian. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. March March March March March March DIARY Mr. Weir claims he has no influence. But how he'd like to have. Basketball season begins with victory for Millcreek. School Christmas party in the gym. Those hilarious f'?l jokes! Seniors' Christmas dance?S?tB? Back to school. Resolutions broken already. Sophomores puncture Charlie with a thumfb tack. Ouch! Pat Robison has a calamity on ice! Hey, Seniors, we're supposed to set a good example for underclassmen. A close game with Edinboro, but they won. Coach all smiles after Union City game. Score 43 to 24. Smile pretty. Group pictures taken today. Overwthelming defeat by Albion-39 to 23. Mrs. McGeever shows junior cheerleaders how to play leapfrog. Crash landing. We bow to Girard 37-24. Senior spaghetti f'?l dinner. Get out your powder puffs, girls, Mr. Veit is here with his camera. Seniors break even on chili con cami dinner. Another close game, but not close enough. Score 37-35, West S'pringfield's favor. A victory for our I. V.'s. Those kids are third from the top! Mrs. Becker persaudes junior high boys to walk along edge of gym floor during lunch hour. Defeated by Cambridge Springs 28-21 . . . C. I. Kell takes school bus and all Sterrettania kids home to Mrs. Kell. lt must be love! Mr. Timmons looks for Walker and finds him hidden behind Pat Robison. Huba! Huba! Seniors make like Ish Kabbibible. Oh those bangs! Mr. Bloom leaves us to our own resources, He's off to Harrisburg. Cheerleaders crown Betty Miller and jim Ritchie King and Queen of Hearts at their St. Valentine dance. What makes us beam so? Valentines from our best beau? Five sleepy, starry-eyed senior girls today. Must have been too much party at Brown's last night. We start new lunch hour programs. Inter-class basketball games. Are they exciting! Everyone is over town today to inspect Downey and Hauck's Fairview Market. Hershey bars and big red balloons are quite a fad. - A big basketball night. Both girls' and boys' teams played the Alumni and won. Charles Weir decides seniors need advice on how to run the world. Elaine Graff does crash dive off bleachers into waste basket. I-lm-m-m. We triumph over Waterford 4U-32. Mr. Weir and the P.O.D. class troop to Academy High School to hear Town Meeting on Socialized Medicine. Trees and shrubs bedeck themselves in silver raiment as rain and fog freeze on their branches and stems . . . The boys leave Chemistry class by way of the window as we are locked in. Hey kids! How about turning in those excuse blanks? . . . Long faces. We are defeated by Girard in our last game of the season. We sing Happy Birthday to Hilda W. and David W. in home room today. lt must be spring. We saw our first robin today. Be-yutiful weather. Whose footprints on the lab tables? Could they fit Carl's shoes? At least we tried to make them fit . . . F.H.A. girls have a skating party. Swell turnout! Lots of fun! Oh those aching backs! We aren't used to roller skating, are we? . . . Downey and Hauck's soda fountain opened today. lt's wonderful! We've needed something like that a long, long time. Off to press over the week-end. Carry on, Iuniors. -DORCTHY DILL and IULIA HAHN. Page 27

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DIARY Easter Dance. Clever victory decorations. Good crowd. Three juniors walk out of Cotton's afterward. The librarians go to see A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. We hold a short program in assembly in memory of President Boosevelt. Orchestra concert. Guest stars-the Bhythm Band from Garver. Music letters to the seniors. Special awards. 517.50 for six boxes at the junior box social. Eighth Grade visiting day. Bain again. No track meet. The junior class meeting discusses whether the prom is or is not to be invitational. Senior night club. Oh those Andrews Sisters! Sunshine. Honest! At last we have our track meet. The great day-Victory in the European theater! Senior class play, lcebound. Some good acting there, too. Don't shove! lt's just another fire drill. Sunday night. Baccalaureate service for the seniors at the Presbyterian Church. Lila Platz had a special escort down the aisle. But it didn't spoil a smooth procession. Big day for the seniors. They receive their diplomas. Gee, we are going to miss you kids. We have a beautiful moonlight night for the prom-even good for canoe- ing. Our king and queen-Don Buseck and Mary Cochran. 28-29--We give the final words of encouragement to our pals as we plunge into our finals. -School's out! See you all next September 4. Football practice begins. Oh! the clatter of little feet! We find We have many changes this year in the faculty and also in the classes. -Looks as if we may need a traffic light in the hall. We all get better acquainted in an assembly this morning as Mr. Bloom discusses our schedules. ' Seniors, did you hear the bell ring? -The sophs have a party for the freshies, but it's not an initiation. Seniors send delegates to visit school board members and ask what's to become of the annual and the other activities. -Bob Walker learns that ginger snaps aren't for the classroom. Wonder Where Mr. Weir got the comic book? -We learn to dance the Conga and Honkey Tonk at the junior dance. -And more rain. -Surprise! Sunshine! A new chemistry feat. A pencil dissolves in thin air, but is found in Walker's undershirt. Mr. Weir saves our 31,000 from the Waste basket. All out for the junior jive tonight. Alter much hair cutting and combing, we have our pictures taken, The boys defeat Conneautville with a score of 7-0. -Happy days-two days vacation during Institute. -The eighth graders have given Mrs. B. the mumps. Mrs. Weir is substi- tuting for her. Another victory over Cambridge Springs. Football banquet. The Missouri Fox Hunters bring out a crowd. Mrs. Weir comes permanently to help our overburdened teachers by taking four morning classes. Thanksgiving Dance. Those lucky juniors make 3.06. Back to our books as vacation ends. April 6-- April l 1- April 12-- April 20 April 27- May 3 May 4-- May 7-- May 8- May l 1 May 15- May 20 May 23- May 25- May june 1 Aug. 27- Sept. 4- Sept. 6 Sept. 7- Sept. 12- Sept. 14 Sept. 18- Sept. 19 Sept. 26-- Sept. 28 Oct. 1-Rain. Oct. 2-Bain. Oct. 3 Oct. 4 Oct. 7 -- Oct. l l Oct. 12 Oct. 17- Oct. 24- Oct. 25-26 Nov. 1 Nov. 2- Nov. 7- Nov. 16- Nov. 19- Nov. 21-- Nov. 26- Nov. 30- - Page 26 Big night for us. Senior night clulb.

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REORGANIZATION All through the activities of Commencement week last year we hadn't a suspicion that a blow was about to fall, Donald I. Hauck, who had been in Fairview High for eighteen years, and had been principal for most of that time, very modestly waited until school was out to hand in his resignation. Those who have gone to school under him realize, we think, that he has a very unusual combination of qualities. He has abun- dant energy and vitality. He has the ability to distinguish what is important from what is trivial, and he gets the important things done ! first. As a result he has a capacity for accomplishment which makes the ordinary person look lazy. He is versatile: he can referee a football or basketball game, he can turn his hand to a bit of carpen- try, he can keep an accurate set of accounts, he can raise vegetables, he can pound a typewriter, he can explain things so clearly that you can't help understanding them, he can tell a good joke, he can be serious and dignified, he can be stern and angry. Mr. Hauck wasn't an executive with six telephones on his desk, but he gave the same effect, for he could tell six different people what to do about six different problems, and turn his mind from one to the other with a complete grasp of each situation. Mr. Hauck could see what to do in an emergency, and jump in and give orders with a speed and dispatch which would have left you breathless except that you were too busy obeying him. And you always obeyed him. Mr. Hauck likes people and he be- lieves in giving flowers to them while they're alive. And so he has a pleasant word for everyone he meets. Often more than one word. Donald I. Hauck As a principal he was chiefly concerned with the welfare of the individual stu- dent. And anyone of them could go to him with complete confidence in his under- standing. A fine spirit and a high morale were the result of his presence, because he was thorough in the things which were important, and his cheerfulness and exuber- ance generated enthusiasm about the work at hand. And so we have put here in black and white some of the things We didn't have a chance to tell him last spring in recognition of eighteen years of service. When we came back to Fairview in the fall, we found another major change had taken place--the junior high school. Horrors! The place was overrun by kids! They ran about aimlessly, they stepped on our toes, they shoved us around. ln short, they took over the building. Then we were put on our good behavior-for them! We were told we must set a good example-for them! Mr. George Bloom, our new principal, and the faculty helped us to convert from a four grade high school to a combined junior and senior high school. ln the end we accepted the junior high kids, and, if you got us alone, we might admit that we regard them a little fondly now. We do realize, though, that we need more room. We have had to double up on lockers, move a study hall into our music room, and force the orchestra onto the stage where it competes with the boy's gym classes. Our lab is not only a lab, but a class room. And with all that valuable equipment in there! And we do need another teacher. Mrs. Weir helped the situation a great deal by becoming a part-time mem- ber of our faculty, but a number of the outside activities needed to keep the interest of the students and the parents are missing, simply because our teachers haven't the time to devote to them. ln addition to the junior high we acquired a domestic science course this year. A room in the grade school was rented from the Borough School Board, and it is fitted out with the most modern equipment: a new electric range, six sewing machines, cabinets and cupboards decorated by the home economics girls, Mrs. McGeever, with their help, did a fine job of changing a plain, ordinary school room into a cheer- fu! kitchen and sewing room. Page 28