Fairview High School - Challenge Yearbook (Fairview, PA)

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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

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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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With this upheaval of our school system came an almost complete new faculty. We have already mentioned our tall and dignified new principal, Mr. Bloom. Miss Kinney is in Miss Schroyer's position, and Mrs. Downing is here as seventh and eighth grade teacher. Mrs. McGeever came as home economics instructor, and later on, someone really needed, Mrs. Weir. With us still to stabilize the change over are: Mrs. Becker, Mr. Kell, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Timmons, and Mr. Weir. And Axel, good old Ax, is still here. We feel as if we've had our own postwar problems in reconversion, but we know that a new schedule and the settling down process will make next year much easier for those who come back. And so, as we leave, we wish Fairview High all the luck in the world. , -IULIA HAHN. TIGER NIGHT CLUB Dim lights, a buzz of voices and scraping of chairs, then silence as the boom- boom-boom of a distant drum announced the opening of the Tiger Night Club. The senior girls dressed in pastel gowns appeared to sing an original song of welcome, with words by Shirley Holland and Ruth Barker, and music by Mr. Lawrence. There were two floor shows presided over by our most able master of ceremonies, David Weitzenhoffer. Between shows dance music was provided by the victrola with a few selections from the Hahn Orchestra. The program committee, to whom we give our compliments, included: Elaine Graff, Dorothy Dill, Ruth Barker, and David Weitzen- hofter. One of the main attractions ot the evening was Carl Guy's version of Carmen Miranda. Huba! Huba! Huh, fellows? He's a real star. And Ruth Barker's and Pat Bobison's Romantic Ballett was almost professionally well done. We all enjoyed it. Shirley Holland's torchy Temptation and her encore of Dream had us swoon- ing. She's our shemale Sinatra. And that barber shop harmony of Viola Brown, Ruth Barker, Norma Wiggins, and Dorothy Dill on Down 'by the Old Mill Stream and Sweet Adeline was a sparkling example of one too many. Iulia and Marcella Hahn did a very good tap dance accompanied on the piano by Ruth Walter. And lean Vigrass certainly beat out some solid measures of boogie woogie. Say, could anyone tell me? Has Carl Guy ever found Chloe? All the while our senior boys were doing a pretty good job at the waiter business as they circled among the tables serving sandwiches, popcorn, potato sticks, pea- nuts, crackers and cheese. We had a real bar, and our whiskey sour forangel and pink lady fcherryl were of the finest-only to be compared to our old fashioneds fcokesl and cocktails Cginger alel. Of course we sold absolutely no liquor to minors! And minors weren't all we had. A lot of parents were here and we were very glad to see them. It gives us a moral boost to see our folks interested in what we're doing. When the doors closed at eleven o'clock, we were all tired, but we could look back on a job well done. Our Tiger Night Club had been a huge success. -IULIA HAHN. Page 29